Cambridgeshire County Council is planning to build a new Huntingdon Library
and Archives Centre during 2007/08, which will replace the separate
buildings the services have at present. We have been assured of our own
BS5454 document strongroom, but we are expected to achieve some level of
integration between archives and local studies (and perhaps other reference
library functions too) when it comes to service delivery to searchers.
There must be many different models of how archives and local studies can
work together, ranging from one extreme of having completely separated
rooms, staff, systems and secondary sources within the same building, to
the other extreme of having no distinction at all between archives and the
rest of the library. Can anyone currently working within such an
arrangement please let me know their thoughts about how well their own
arrangement works? - advantages and disadvantages of the particular model
of integration within which you are working, and whether you would change
anything in the light of experience.
Please reply offlist as I imagine replies could be lengthy. I will write a
summary of replies and distribute it to anyone who is interested.
Alan Akeroyd
Principal Archivist
County Record Office Huntingdon
01480 375842
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/archives
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