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Mae'r gwybodaeth yma yn dod o ffynhonnell y tu allan i CyMAL. Nid yw'r gwybodaeth yma ar gael yn Gymraeg. Ymddiheurwn nad oes darpariaeth ddwyieithog ar gael. The following information comes from a source outside of CyMAL and is not available through the medium of Welsh. Please accept our apologies for the lack of bilingual provision. --- ARCHIVES IN MUSEUMS TRAINING DAY 23 November 2007 Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh, Brecon Description: Museums around the country contain archives as part of their holdings. While larger museums can employ specialist staff to deal with these collections, smaller and voluntary museums are often unable or unclear how to manage, preserve and access the archives they hold. Content: This one-day course considers the important differences between museum objects and archive records and the difficulties that museums can have in storing, accessing and exploiting archives within their collections. Using a mixture of presentations, case studies and group working it aims to provide practical training to equip museum practitioners to manage and understand archives. 10.00 a.m - Registration and coffee 10.15 a.m - Welcome and Domestics 10.20 a.m - Introduction and Context: What are Archives? How do museums manage them? 11.10 a.m - Break 11.30 a.m - Regiment Museum of the Royal Welsh case study:using archive collections for family history research and digitising photograph collections 12.30 p.m - Lunch 13.20 p.m - Tour of the museum 13.50 p.m - Physical care of archive collections: Storage, preservation, conservation & handling 14.50 p.m - Tea 15.10 p.m - Using archive collections: Access for users, exhibitions, cataloguing, reproduction 16.15 p.m - Questions and Close Outcomes: By the end of the day, participants will have considered: * Why museums hold archives, what distinguishes them from their other collections and why this is important * Practical strategies for the appropriate physical care of collections * Successful ways of exploiting archive collections to attract visitors, complement exhibitions, develop new users and to promote the museum Each participant will provided with copies of presentation slides and key documents Format: Seminar with some group work sessions Requirements: The course content is aimed at people with an active involvement in the museum world and is particularly suited to both qualified, non-qualified and volunteer museum staff working in smaller institutions without the benefit of professional support for their archive collections Max. Group Size: 20 Trainers: The training will be delivered by Jon Newman, a local authority archivist and archive and museum consultant, and Martin Everett, curator of the Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh Lunch: A sandwich lunch and refreshments are include on the course Booking: To book a place on this free course please contact Celia Green Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh The Barracks Brecon Powys LD3 7EB Tel: 01874 613310 Fax: 01874 613275 Email: [log in to unmask] --- Elizabeth Bennett Swyddog Cyngor a Chefnogaeth - Advice and Support Officer CyMAL: Amgueddfeydd, Archifau a Llyfrgelloedd Cymru - CyMAL: Museums, Archives and Libraries Wales Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru - Welsh Assembly Government Uned 10, Parc Gwyddoniaeth, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3AH. Unit 10, Science Park, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3AH. Ffon/Tel: 01970 610235 Ffacs/Fax: 01970 610223 Rhif GTN/GTN No: 7 2846 0235 e-bost/e-mail: [log in to unmask] The original of this email was scanned for viruses by the Government Secure Intranet virus scanning service supplied by Cable&Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007.) On leaving the GSi this email was certified virus free. Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or recorded for legal purposes. Cafodd fersiwn gwreiddiol y neges e-bost hon ei sganio gan wasanaeth gwrthfeirysau Mewnrwyd Ddiogel y Llywodraeth (GSI) a ddarparwyd gan Cable&Wireless mewn partneriaeth â MessageLabs. (Rhif Tystysgrif CCTM 2006/04/0007). Wrth adael y GSI nid oedd unrhyw feirws yn gysylltiedig â’r neges hon. Mae’n ddigon posibl y bydd unrhyw ohebiaeth drwy’r GSI yn cael ei logio, ei monitro a/neu ei chofnodi yn awtomatig am resymau cyfreithiol.