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The A2A (Archive to Archive) initiative is something with a lot of potential for REED editors and others working with archival material, so I think this announcement, and the URL, will be of general interest to the list. A. Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:59:26 -0000 From: "Stark, Sarah" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: "From: Local-History list" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: A2A Update, November 2002 With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting sjas ~~~~ *A2A Update, November 2002* The A2A database at www.a2a.pro.gov.uk was last updated early in November. It now contains over 4 million catalogue entries from archives repositories across England. Among this month's new finding aids were catalogues of the extensive photographic archives of English Heritage's National Monuments Record, and catalogues of the archival holdings of Hastings Museum. Finding aids to a range of archives held by Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service, and to hospital archives and other public records held by seven local authority record offices and Oxfordshire Health Archives, have also been added to A2A. The A2A Central Team is pleased to announce that at the time of writing the Heritage Lottery Fund have made 2 more grants to A2A projects - Campaigning London and Made in Suffolk. Campaigning London is a London regional A2A project. Led by the Greater London Archives Network and delivered by London Metropolitan Archives, the project will retroconvert 15,000 catalogue pages relating to the archives of many London-based charities, pressure groups and community organisations from 1620 to modern times, held in London Metropolitan Archives and the following repositories: the borough archive services of Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Hackney, Haringey, Lewisham, Sutton and Westminster; the archives of King's College and of Save the Children; and the Women's Library. Made in Suffolk will be delivered by Suffolk Record Office in partnership with the Ipswich Transport Museum and the Long Shop Steam Museum. It will provide access via A2A to 130 business archives held in Suffolk Record Office: 104 catalogues will be retroconverted and 16 archives will be newly catalogued. Related archives held in the two museums will also be catalogued as part of the project. A2A's database usage statistics reveal that over 1 million searches have now been made on the database since May last year; these searches have resulted in well over 2 million viewings of individual catalogues. In the last few months usage of A2A has reached peaks of 7000 catalogue viewings per day. 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. * * * * * * Sarah J A Stark 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 * * * * * * This e-mail message (and attachments) may contain information that is confidential to The Public Record Office. If you are not the intended recipient you cannot use, distribute or copy the message or attachments. In such a case, please notify the sender by return e-mail immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message and attachments that do not relate to the official business of the Public Record Office are neither given nor endorsed by it.