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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: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:51:44 -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, January 2003 With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting sjas ~~~~~ A2A Update, January 2003 The A2A Central Team is delighted to report that the Heritage Lottery Fund has announced three more grants towards A2A projects: for Private Faces in Public Places (a South East regional project); Communities in the Records (the East of England regional project); and South West Family Fortunes (the South West regional project). Private Faces in Public Places aims to create new catalogues for, increase public access to, and improve the care of a variety of 19th and 20th century archives held by 6 museums and other organisations in the South East: the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Godalming Museum; Royal Holloway, University of London; the Royal Logistics Corps Museum, Deepcut; the Tolkien Society; and the Watts Gallery, Compton. Communities in the Records, led by Norfolk Record Office, will contribute over 22,000 existing catalogue pages to A2A. These catalogues provide access to the archives - held by five local authority archives services and the Holkham Estate - of civil and ecclesiastical parishes, diocesan administration, Nonconformist congregations and a range of community organisations in the East of England. South West Family Fortunes will provide access via A2A to over 65,000 existing catalogue pages relating to family, estate, solicitors and business archives in the South West Region. The project is led by Cornwall Record Office, and 12 other regional institutions (museums, special repositories and local authority record offices) are also taking part. Planning for A2A Phase 3 is beginning. A key feature of A2A after March 2004 will be the development of interoperability and linking between the various strands of the UK archives network. The first step towards this aim will be liaison with other network strands and sites early this year, with a view to identifying funding and partners. It is intended that Phase 3 will also encompass further new cataloguing of significant archives and retroconversion of existing paper and electronic catalogues, increased digitisation of original documents, and further enhancement and promotion of the A2A site. The A2A database will next be updated early next month: details will be provided in the next A2A Update - or visit our site at www.a2a.pro.gov.uk. 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.