During the last two years, the Hub Information and Records Management Project has successfully delivered free consultancies to 15 non-national museums in London. This year the project is in a transitional phase and we are pleased to be able to again offer free consultancies to up to eight non-national museums in the London region.

 

We can help your museum to:

 

·          identify and retain vital information in case of organisational change

·          organise your records  

·          comply with information legislation (Freedom of Information Act, Data Protection Act, etc.)

·          sort out your shared drive

·          identify records that can be thrown out

·          raise awareness among your staff and volunteers for record keeping

 

This year we are particularly interested in helping museums undergoing organisational transitions (eg. changing to or from Trust status), which need help to identify their requirements and rights relating to information and records management. If you would like an informal chat about a consultancy, please get in touch with Samira Teuteberg [log in to unmask].

 

Previous recipients of consultancies have said:

 

“This [records management] had been on my list of objectives but I didn’t even know how to begin. The consultancy has given us focus along with the specialist knowledge and advice.”

 

“[The consultancy has] greatly increased confidence in managing records and progressing action plans”

 

“The work we did with the consultancy on digital image management has fed into our knowledge and confidence around producing, selecting and disposing of images appropriately, to serve the museum’s needs.”

 

 

For further information on the format and eligibility criteria for the free consultancies, and the application form, please see: http://www.museuminfo-records.org.uk/RMconsultancies201112.doc .

 

If you are interested in receiving a free consultancy for your museum, please return your application by 5pm, Friday 17^th June 2011 (extended deadline) to: [log in to unmask] , or by post to: Samira Teuteberg, Records Advisor, Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN

 

The project was established for the London region in 2007 and has raised capacity in over 149 museums to date, through delivery of training workshops, guidance materials and free consultancies. For more information on the project and its resources, see www.museuminfo-records.org.uk.