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This is a follow -up to my message yesterday, which includes a link to the programme and registration form: Workshop on Large Research Collections in Museums and Galleries, 8th September, Empire & Commonwealth Museum, Bristol 10am-5.30pm Archivists are not curators. So what happens when archivists find themselves working, not in an archive or even in a library, but in a museum? What are the problems that crossing domains throws up, and what are the different priorities for collecting and research? How can the archivist help researchers to understand why a museum does not work like an archive, and help curators to understand why research cataloguing systems work differently from curatorial catalogues? This AHRC-funded workshop presents the perspectives of researchers and depositors as well as archivists and curators. It is intended to provide an opportunity to thrash out the problems and start to build a community working towards best practice guidelines and practical solutions for resolving tensions. Programme and registration forms can be downloaded at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/history/staff_djeater.shtml#raa <http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/history/staff_djeater.shtml#raa> . The workshop is free and lunch is provided. ______________________________________________________________________________ Dr Timothy Lovering Research Fellow, Wars of Liberation, Wars of Decolonisation: The Rhodesian Army Archive Project Tel: 0117 925 4980 Ext: 211 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found