Join us for the CILIP Local Studies Group South Study Day 2017, which shows how fellow library and archive professionals have used innovative ways to highlight letters and log books, diaries and dispatches within their collections.
Date: Friday 3 November, 10.30am – 4.30pm
Cost: £40.00 + VAT CILIP members; £50.00 +VAT non members
Buffet lunch and refreshments included
Location: Medway Archives Centre, 32 Bryant Road, Strood, Rochester Kent ME2 3EP malsc@medway.gov.uk, 01634 332714
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Speakers/participants:
Hannah Barton, Tate Galleries, AnnoTate : Tate Gallery’s Archives & Access project -developing and using a transcription tool to transcribe letters and notebooks of British and émigré artists.
Beverley Jones, Vivacity Peterborough: 2016 Alan Ball Award winning Peterborough and the Great War project
Liz Finn, Kent Archives Service: Anna Maria Hussey; mycological illustrator: a project to transcribe and publish an e-book of a little-known diary of a holiday in Dover in 1836.
Norma Crowe, Medway Archives Office. Insights into the Darnley family of Cobham Hall through their letters. Dramatised readings presented by Norma Crowe, Jean Lear and Christoph Bull
Agenda:
10.30 Registration/coffee
11.00 Welcome
11.05 – 12.00 session1 Liz Finn: Botany boats and bathing machines: Anna Maria Hussey’s diary of 1836
12.05 – 13.00 session 2 Hannah Barton: AnnoTate and the Archives & Access project
13.00 – 14.00 lunch with LSG South AGM at 13.30
14.00 – 14.50 session 3 Beverley Jones: Just passing through: the Peterborough Great War Project
14.50 – 15.20 tours of the Medway Archives Centre
15.20 – 16.10 session 4 Norma Crowe: The Darnleys of Cobham Hall and their letters.
16.10 – 16.30 Tea, Summing up, thanks and close
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For more information contact Tony Pilmer via tony.pilmer@aerosociety.com.
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