CENTRE FOR ARCHIVE AND INFORMATION STUDIES
Democracy and Delusion in the Archives
SEMINAR - Friday 15 June 2007 4.00 pm
Tower Building, University of Dundee
● ‘Whatever happened to Charles Altamont Doyle?: The last years of Conan Doyle’s father.’
Dr Allan Beveridge, Consultant Psychiatrist, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, Scotland
● ‘Democracy Starts Here: Access at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)’
William R Creech, Archivist, NARA
Dr Beveridge will examine the fate of Arthur Conan Doyle’s father, Charles
Altamont Doyle, a Victorian illustrator, who spent his last years as an asylum
inmate. The paper is based on research in the University Archives and coincides with the successful completion of a cataloguing project resulting in a fully searchable online resource of the Tayside and University health archives.
William Creech will discuss how records are selected for permanent preservation by NARA given the volume of material produced by the Federal Government. He will consider how such archives are processed and examine the tensions between processing and reference/user services in an organisation as large as NARA.
For more information and to reserve a place please contact Caroline Brown, [log in to unmask]
Caroline Brown,
Deputy Archivist,
Archive, Records Management and Museum Services,
University of Dundee,
Dundee,
DD1 4HN
Tel: +44 (O)1382 388773
Fax: +44 (0)1382 385523
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www.dundee.ac.uk/archives
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:
ICA/SUV Annual Conference 13-17 August 2007, University of Dundee
Archives, Records and the User: The Changing Nature of University and Scientific Archives in the 21st Century.
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/SUV2007/
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