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Company annual reports: assuring the distributed national print
archive
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Does your library/archives centre have an historical collection of
company annual reports? Are you interested in issues surrounding the
collection of or access to this kind of literature? If so, you are
invited to attend the launch event for this RSLP funded project, to
be carried out by the libraries of London Business School, Warwick
University, Strathclyde University and Manchester Business School,
with major input from the British Library and Guildhall Library.
The project will address the concern that historic company annual
reports - important primary research documents - are increasingly
being discarded by libraries as more current material becomes
available electronically. The project aims to provide a comprehensive
resource for researchers interested in using annual report literature
and a focus for the development of a national strategy for ensuring
continued access to this literature.
The purpose of the launch event (details below) is:
-To inform participants of the project's aims
-To seek the community's views on key issues relevant to these aims.
Your input is needed to help make this project a success.

EVENT DETAILS
Location: British Library Conference Centre
Date: October 25 2000
Time: 1pm-5pm

PROPOSED PROGRAMME
1.15 Introduction by Chair
1.20 Keynote address: the importance of annual report literature
1.50 Introduction to the project and its aims
2.20 Role of the British Library
2.35 Role of Guildhall Library
2.50 Tea
3.10 Issues for discussion: data formats, bibliographic control,
subject indexing, conservation, usage etc.
3.25 Break-out sessions
4.15 Plenary session
4.55 Close

REGISTRATION
All those who are interested are invited to attend this free event.
Please register with the Project Officer, Lindsay Jones. Telephone 020
7262 5050 x4241 or e-mail [log in to unmask]

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Lindsay Jones
RSLP Project Officer (Library)
London Business School Library
Regent's Park
London NW1 4SA
Tel. 020 7262 5050 x4241
Simon Wilson
49 Heywood Boulevard, Thingwall, Wirral CH61 3XB
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tel. 0151 648 5932
http://www.archivesinfo.net/