A focus group session for archivists and records managers in Scotland who work with or care for business archives is being held at the National Archives of Scotland on Thursday 24 September 2009 from 1030 until 1230.
This focus group is your chance to feed your ideas and thoughts into a National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland. The focus group is an opportunity to:
- find out the purpose of the proposed strategy in a UK context
- help identify the issues that you feel affect your custodianship of business archives
- identify links and partnerships that could be created to raise the profile of business archives
- identify actions that could be undertaken to ensure business archives are captured, preserved and made accessible to as wide an audience as possible
As you may be aware a National Strategy for Business Archives has been published for England & Wales. This strategy aims to "raise the profile of business archives, ensuring they are utilised by business and research alike and that future collection are more representative of the UK's diverse economic activity."
With the support of the National Archives of Scotland and the Scottish Council on Archives, the Business Archives Council of Scotland and the Ballast Trust are working to create a similar strategy for Scotland that reflects our national context. Similar focus groups will be taking place in September aimed at users, academics and non-archivists who care for records.
Following the focus group sessions a draft strategy will be formulated and put out to wider consultation with the aim of a final version being agreed in the new year.
If you would be interested in attending, please contact David Powell
(d.powell@archives.gla.ac.uk) on 0141 330 4159 or Kiara King at k.king@archives.gla.ac.uk
Further information about the strategy's development and planned events will also be available at our blog
Kiara King
Assistant Archivist (Ballast Trust)