Information Marketplace 2008

Over the past years the Information Marketplace has firmly established itself as a popular and important part of the Conference with delegates and exhibitors alike. This year's event will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 27 August.

 

Special Interest Group presentations will take place throughout the afternoon. All delegates are welcome to join any of the presentations and a warm invitation is also extended to visitors on the day.

 

Other than the one-to-one sessions with the NCA Archive Lottery Adviser, there is no need to pre-register for any of these sessions.

 

Re-use of public sector information - what records managers need to know?

Presented by the Records Management Group

 

Speaker: Susan Healy, Information Policy Consultant and Data Protection Officer, The National Archives

 

Come and find out the latest developments in public sector information and how you can apply these in your organisation, in a session led by one of the country’s leading experts in information policy.

What is special about special repositories?

Presented by the Specialist Repositories Group

 

Presentations and questions giving information about two of SRG''s affiliate groups, Health Archives and Records group (HARG) and Charity Archivists and Records Managers (CHARM)

 

Speakers: Colin Gale - "Who needs the Health Archives and Records Group?" Proposes advocacy as HARG''s raison d''etre.

Rob Baker, Head of Archive and Library at RSA, and Jill Roberts (Archivist at Leonard Cheshire Disability and member CHARMM) - "Charity archives: why they matter and where they''re going". An introduction to the charity sector and latest news

Archives for the 21^st Century: A new Government Strategy for Archives

Presented by The National Archives and The Museums, Libraries & Archives Council

 

Speakers: Nick Kingsley, Head of the National Advisory Services, The National Archives

 

TNA and MLA have been working over the year to bring forward a new Government Policy on archives, which carries Government endorsement and provides a framework for strategies and work across the archives and records management sector. This is your chance to contribute to the development of this key document and put questions to the TNA and MLA teams responsible for its development.

 

 

MLA and Archives:

(1) Meeting the policy challenge and delivering change
Presented by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Speakers: Sue Wilkinson, Director of Policy & Sustainability, MLA, Hedley Swain, Director of Programme Delivery, MLA
 
(2) ‘2012 & the Cultural Olympiad – putting the spotlight on archives’
Speaker: Isobel Siddons, 2012 Programme Manager, MLA
 
Your chance to meet the people leading the new MLA, and to hear about the key government policy objectives driving forward change across the MLA sector. Find out how MLA plans to work with archives in the future, and how you and your organisation can get involved.

 

What is special about people working in Special Repositories?

Presented by the Specialist Repositories Group

 

Presentation and questions about another of SRG''s affiliate groups, Historic Houses Archivists Group (HHAG), and a session for you to have your say about what you want from SRG.

 

Speakers: Elizabeth Lomas (HHAG), an experienced Records Manager now undertaking academic research - "Guide to the Retention of Modern Records on Landed Estates". Talking about the second edition of this guide, published last year, which she revised and extended.

 

Andrew Nicoll, Scottish Catholic Archive, and Adrian Glew, Tate (SRG) - "What can the Specialist Repositories Group do for you?" An interactive session allowing you to express your ideas and thoughts about what SRG can do for its members.

Training Curators to be Archivists: the experience of the Archives in Museums Specialist Subject network
Presented by the Archives in Museums Subject Specialist Network

Speaker: Heather Romaine, Archives Project Officer, National Motor Museum Trust

 

Established in 2006, this network has run a series of training sessions across the country, attempting to equip musuem staff and volunteers with some of the basic skills needed to look after their vast archive collections. Coem and find out about theier experiences and what was learned from this project.

 

Business as Usual…? An update on the emerging national strategy for business archives

Presented by the Business Records Group

 

Speaker: Katey Logan, Business Archives Strategy Consultant, based at The National Archives

 

Come and find out how Katey plans to address the brief to create a national strategy, and take the opportunity to contribute to the debate.

Developing a National Collection Strategy

Presented by The National Archives

 

Speaker: Cathy Smith, Collections Strategies Manager, The National Archives

 

Cathy has recently joined TNA and is leading on the implementation of the national collections strategy. Come and meet her and find out how this work is progressing

Advocacy for Archives

Presented by The National Council on Archives

 

Speakers: Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowan, Director of Publicity & Communications, The National Council on Archives

René Kinzett, Head of Public Affairs, National Council on Archives

 

Your chance to hear how the NCA is working on behalf of archives to bring to the attention of the public, government and relevant institutions or organisations, matters of current concern in the field of archives, including the recent establishment of an All Party Group on Archives.

 

Speaker: Louise Ray, Archive Lottery Adviser

An opportunity to hear about the recent changes to the Heritage Lottery Fund and its programmes, with an opportunity to discuss the potential for archive applications. 

 

The second half of the session will be divided into individual 5-minute surgeries to allow delegates to discuss potential applications with the Archive Lottery Adviser (Please note surgery appointments must be booked in advance by emailing louise.ray@nationalarchives.gov.uk).