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How Green are your Archives? Real issues and options for sustainability What are the effects of budget cuts and environmental targets on archive buildings and their paper-based collections? What are the current trends and thinking on sustainable archives, and the impacts on those responsible for long-term collections care and those using archives for work or leisure? Conservation, preservation and collections management specialist Jonathan Rhys-Lewis will introduce and demystify the complexities of these issues, key to archives today, and discuss a range of more sustainable approaches to preserving archives for future generations. This timely seminar will be viewed within the context of change and the ongoing revision of the existing British Standard on storing and exhibiting archival documents (BS 5454: 2000), and Jonathan has also agreed to attempt a view of the future... Thursday 3 March 2011 6:00pm (doors 5:30pm) - 7:30pm at London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB Advance booking is essential. Guarantee your place by contacting e: [log in to unmask] t: 020 7332 3816 This seminar is free to all AfL members, non-members £2 (payable on the door). Refreshments available. Bring your questions and news items. SEE www.archivesforlondon.org for seminars, behind the scenes visits and joining AfL FOLLOW US on Twitter: www.twitter.com/archives4london A Company registered in England and Wales: Registered No. 5635424 Registered Office: 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra