Posted on behalf of CILIP Local Studies Group, North West Branch
Going Digital: Digitisation and the Local Studies collection
An LSGNW day-school at the Cheshire Record Office
Wednesday 21 November 2007
Programme
9.30 Arrival / coffee
10.00-11.00 Paul Newman, Senior Archivist, Cheshire Record Office Mapping Victorian Cheshire - putting tithe maps online
11.00-11.15 Tea / coffee
11.15-12.15 Ian Smith, House of Images
Digitising a photographic collection
12.15-12.30 LSG AGM
12.30-2.00 Lunch (eating places nearby or snack lunches can be eaten on site)
2.00-3.00 Diana Rushton, Blackburn Library
From Weft and Warp to World Wide Web
3.00-3.15 Tea / coffee
3.15-4.15 Gay Oliver, archives and family history tutor
What makes a good website?
4.15-4.30 Summary and close
Fee £12.50, closing date for applications is Friday 2 November 2007
For more information, please contact Morris Garratt at [log in to unmask]
Larysa Bolton
Archivist
Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre
Central Library
Old Street
Ashton-under-Lyne
OL6 7SG
Tel: 0161 342 4242
Fax: 0161 342 4245
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