Archive

A great team of 10 volunteers has been selected to assist with this, and this week we got started on the training and familiarisation with what they’ll be doing.  They’ve been getting to grips with important ‘archivey’ things like original order and provenance, creator, and everybody’s favourite, ISAD (G)! “What’s that?” I hear you say –  quite simply it’s standards for archive cataloguing.  We’re all really enthusiastic and excited, and raring to go.

Over the next few months the volunteer team will be looking through the archive boxes and populating a database with details of the contents.  This is just the first stage, there’s much more to come.  I’ll be posting regular updates and sharing any interesting finds with you (and hopefully persuading those volunteers who aren’t ‘publicity shy’ to do the occasional guest post too!).