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Subject: A2A Update, July 2005
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:51:00 +0100
From: Halpin, Monica <[log in to unmask]>
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On behalf of the A2A Team, and with apologies for any inconvenience
caused by cross-posting.
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A2A Update, July 2005
As we approach the end of Phase 3, the database has grown considerably.
6 new projects appear for the first time:
Archives and Artefacts
Experience the Home Front
Gloucester Parishes
Images of Suffolk
Oswestry Town Council
Robert Boyle for the 21st Century
The latest update to A2A (Access to Archives) - the English strand of
the UK archives network at http://www.a2a.org.uk - took place at the end
of July 2005. 4316 new catalogues were added to A2A. The database now
contains 8.5 million catalogue entries, in over 99,132 catalogue files,
describing archives held in 390 record offices, libraries, museums and
other repositories all over England. Salford City Archives has
withdrawn from the database temporarily due to access issues.
The new additions at this update include finding aids describing the
following:
* Oxford University, Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities have
contributed through Archives and Artefacts
* Northumberland Record Office and Teesside Archives have contributed
through the locally-funded North East regional project Bell, Book and Candle
* Salford City Archives have contributed through Bridgewater Estates
* Centre for Kentish Studies have contributed through Clerics and Commoners
* Bolton Archive and Local Studies Service, Cheshire and Chester
Archives and Local Studies Service, Cumbria Record Office and Local
Studies Library, Whitehaven; Cumbria Record Office, Barrow; Cumbria
Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters; Cumbria Record Office, Kendal;
Lancashire Record Office; Manchester Archives and Local Studies; Oldham
Local Studies and Archives; Rochdale Local Studies Library; Stockport
Archive Service; Wirral Archives Service have contributed through the
HLF-funded project Community Spirit
* University of Bristol Special Collections have contributed through
Cosmic Rays and the Solid State
* Second World War Experience Centre have contributed through
Experience the Home Front
*Kingston Museum and Heritage Service; Lewisham Local Studies and
Archives; London Metropolitan Archives; Royal College of Physicians of
London; Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum have contributed
through the HLF-funded project Flesh and Blood
* Gloucestershire Record Office have contributed through Gloucester
Parishes
* Hastings Museum and Art Gallery have contributed through family
papers and papers of the local fire brigade
* Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies have contributed family and
estate papers through the HLF-funded Hidden Talent
* Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office; Lincolnshire
Archives; Nottinghamshire Archives have contributed through Home and Abroad
* Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch; Suffolk Record Office,
Ipswich Branch; Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft Branch have
contributed through Images of Suffolk
* Corporation of London Records Office have contributed through
Magpie's Nest
* Lancashire Record Office have contributed through Our Mutual Friends
in the North
* Canterbury Cathedral Archives have contributed through Oyster Sources
* Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western
Manuscripts have contributed through Religion and Rebellion
* Lambeth Palace Library have contributed through Saints and Sinners
* Oswestry Town Council have contributed through Seven Ages of Man
* Devon Record Office; Dorset Record Office; Gloucestershire Record
Office; North Devon Record Office; Plymouth and West Devon Record
Office; Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office have contributed through
HLF-funded project South West Access All Areas
* East Sussex Record Office and West Sussex Record Office have
contributed through Sussex Parish Chest
* London University Library have contributed through Web of Science
* Bradford University, JB Priestley Library; Doncaster Archives
Department; Hull Central Library, Local Studies; Kelham Island
Industrial Museum; Sheffield Archives; West Yorkshire Archive Service,
Calderdale; West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds; West Yorkshire
Archive Service, Wakefield Headquarters; York City Archives Department
and York University, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research have
contributed through the HLF-funded Yorkshire Made
* British Library, India Office Records have contributed through Public
Works Department Records
* York University, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research have
contributed through collections of hospital an asylum records.
A simplified help page has been added for new users. Don't forget that
you can restrict your A2A search to the catalogues added at this update
by using the Dates of Catalogues feature on the standard Search page -
why not give it a try?
A2A is the English strand of the UK archives network; its database at
http://www.a2a.org.uk already contains the electronic equivalent of over
700,000 catalogue pages describing archives held across England in
national, local and specialist repositories and dating from the 700s to
the present day. We are rapidly approaching the end of Phase 3 of The
A2A Programme. There will be additional updates as necessary.
The A2A Database has now been searched 6.8 million times and catalogues
have now been downloaded 16.1 million times.
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Monica Halpin
Regional Liaison Coordinator,
Access to Archives A2A
Tel: 020 8392 5328
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.a2a.org.uk
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/partnerprojects/a2a
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