LSG South Study Day 2017

“To whom it may concern”: letters and log books, diaries and dispatches

Our 2017 Study Day will look at how fellow library and archive professionals have used innovative ways to highlight letters and log books, diaries and dispatches within their collections.

Date: Friday 3 November, 10.30am – 4.30pm

Cost: £40.00 + VAT  CILIP members; £50.00 +VAT non-members, with lunch and refreshments included

Location: Medway Archives Centre, 32 Bryant Road, Strood, Rochester Kent ME2 3EP

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Speakers/participants:

Hannah Barton, Tate Galleries, AnnoTate : Tate Gallery’s Archives & Access project -developing and using a transcription tool to transcribe letters and notebooks of British and émigré artists.

Beverley Jones, Vivacity Peterborough: 2016 Alan Ball Award winning Peterborough and the Great War project, which brought to life two visitors’ books from the tea stall run by the Women’s United Total Abstinence Council on Peterborough East Railway Station during 1916 and 1917.

Liz Finn, Kent Archives Service: Anna Maria Hussey; mycological illustrator: a project to transcribe and publish an e-book of a little-known diary of a holiday in Dover in 1836.

Norma Crowe, Medway Archives Office.  Insights into the Darnley family of Cobham Hall through their letters. Dramatised readings presented by Norma Crowe, Jean Lear and Christoph Bull

The day will also include a tour of the new Medway Archives Centre. 

For more information, please visit the LSG Blog or contact Tony Pilmer via [log in to unmask].