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The latest update to the A2A database at www.a2a.pro.gov.uk took place
yesterday. The database now contains over 3.9 million catalogue entries
from 197 archives repositories across England.
The new catalogues include further collection level descriptions from the
Yorkshire Signpost project, notably for archives held by the East Riding of
Yorkshire Archives and Records Service and the Thoresby Society of Leeds,
but also for archives from 11 other repositories in the Yorkshire and Humber
region. Among this month's other new catalogues, 47 finding aids for
hospital archives held by Cornwall Record Office, Gloucestershire Record
Office and Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies have also been added.
The A2A Central Team is very pleased to announce that the Heritage Lottery
Fund have made grants to two more A2A projects: More than Meets the Eye and
The Seven Ages of Man.
More than Meets the Eye will be delivered by Greater Manchester County
Record Office, and will provide access to the Documentary Photography
Archive, which is held at Greater Manchester County Record Office and
relates to life in the North West of England. The project will contribute
over 10,000 catalogue pages to the A2A database by retroconversion, and will
also provide an online virtual gallery, using selected photographs from and
giving context for the Documentary Photography Archive, linked to the A2A
website.
The Seven Ages of Man is the West Midlands regional consortium project. It
will add 30,000 retroconverted catalogue pages to the A2A database -
catalogue pages which relate to parish, ecclesiastical, court and school
records held in repositories across the region, including local government
record offices, the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick, and
the archives of the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham at St Chad's
Cathedral.
A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network: its database at
www.a2a.pro.gov.uk already contains the electronic equivalent of over
400,000 catalogue pages describing archives held across England in national,
local and specialist repositories and dating from the 900s to the present
day. The A2A programme will make a further 300,000 catalogue pages
available on the web by March 2004.
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Sarah J A Flynn
Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A
Public Record Office
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU
Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328
Fax: 020 8392 5319
Email: [log in to unmask]
www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
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