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Dear colleagues The Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland) warmly invites you to attend our annual conference 'Global Futures' to be held in London between 31st August to 2nd September 2016. We know our future is a global one. Global relationships, interactions, communications and connectivity are shifting the way in which we live and work. The record, its information content and memory are an increasing global commodity and as professional custodians we are responsible for authenticity and integrity; which in turn ensures that global research, knowledge exchange, collective memory, political and legal rights, are able to be explored, scrutinized and upheld. Our professional lives often focus on pragmatic response to everyday situations, but we face a constant requirement to communicate and demonstrate to ourselves and to others our ability to place our work firmly in the future. We are confident our sector is creative, innovative, adaptable and firmly forward facing. That is why in 2016, we will hear about our Global Future at the ARA annual conference. A full programme is available on our website at www.archives.org.uk/ara-in-action/the-ara-conference.html with early bird registration available until the 18th April 2016. A model business case to assist with gaining internal support within your own organisation is also available on the website. The response to our call for papers was tremendous and the scope and scale of submissions wide-ranging. We will have speakers from all of the UK and Ireland, and from Sweden, Thailand, Germany, and the USA. We have strands for Archives and Records, Conservation and Digital Preservation/Digital Archives and Records. Three days. 92 speakers. 69 papers, workshops and panel discussions. Information village, ARA Hub. Research posters. Professional networking. Social events. You! Andrew R Nicoll Chair, ARA Conference Committee 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