About the SRG
About the group
The Specialist Repositories Group (SRG) was established in 1979 in order to provide a forum for non-local government archivists. Membership now exceeds 550 people.
Originally founded as the Universities and Colleges Group, SRG now provides a forum for those employed outside local record offices and maintains a core interest in higher education.
Its membership is now diverse, both geographically and in terms of the institutions for which members work. We particularly seek to articulate and represent the interests of those in small archive services, and our members include archivists working in business, museums, schools etc
What we do and what is our relationship with the rest of the society?
The SRG has an important role in the Society, in bringing together the interests of many lone archivists or archivists working in specialised environments.
We act as a link between those working in archives and not members of the Society who require support in our field. We do this by assisting our affiliate groups in providing training end educational resources for archivists and those working in the records keeping fields.
Many SRG initiatives have benefited members of the Society as a whole. SRG initiatives include:
- development of archival description standards and methods of listing for a wide range of records
- the output of the Professional Methodology Panel on standards and performance indicators
- the original idea for British Archives edited by Julia Sheppard and Janet Foster (4th edition in preparation)
- a major report on the role and resources of university repositories
- encourages non-Society of Archivists members responsible for the preservation and conservation of records to join the Society
Affiliate groups
We have a number of affiliate groups, allowing the Society to build a strong relationship with other groups working in our sector. These include: Religious Archives Group; Historic Houses Archivists Group; Health Archives and Records Group; Charity Archivists and Records Managers; Parliamentary and Politicial Parties Archive Group.
Each of these affiliated groups send a representative, a Society of Archivists’ member, who is co-opted onto the SRG Committee.
Additionally we have a strong working relationship with GLAM (Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts), an independent group established in 2005 to bring together archivists, librarians, curators, writers, researchers, and anyone else with an interest in the collecting, preservation, use and promotion of literary archives and manuscripts in Britain and Ireland.
Newsletters
The SRG publishes a newsletter twice a year. Previous issues can be found in the newsletters section.
Members of committee
Adrian Glew, Chair, Tate
Daniel Scott-Davies, Secretary, RAF Museum
Sarah Coombs, Treasurer, Barts and the Royal London
Hywel Williams, Training Officer, Royal Academy of Music
Rita Boswell , Harrow School
Nichola Court, Royal Society
Sue Donnelly, London School of Economics
Christopher Hunwick
Natalie Milne , University of Birmingham
Andrew Nicoll, Scottish Catholic Archives
Susan Scott , The Savoy and RCPCH
Contact the group
Adrian Glew, Chair adrian.glew@tate.org.uk
Daniel Scott-Davies, Secretary Daniel.Scott-Davies@rafmuseum.org
Sarah Coombs, Treasurer sarah.coombs@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk
Hywel Williams, Training Officer h.williams@ram.ac.uk
Last modified 19/05/2008
