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Adapting to Covid-19 at Cadbury Research Library
Like all other archive services, the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham closed in March 2020 due to Covid-19. Some staff were furloughed, whilst others quickly got used to working from home. The library reopen in September 2020 with staff working one week on-site, one week from home. Since then, our Save the Children Project Team have busily adapted to this blended working. Although, whilst at home, we have no access to the...
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Pat Kiernan (1946-2020)
Last year AWM lost a dear friend and valued trustee. The below has been reproduced with the kind permission of the Friends of Shropshire Archives. This year the Friends of Shropshire Archives lost a great friend, founder member, and supporter as well as the person who had been our treasurer since 1994. Pat housed a large personality in a small frame. She was always a significant presence at Friends events ensuring subscriptions and fees were coll...
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Novice to Know-How training - an introduction to digital preservation
The National Archives is offering access to free online digital preservation training called Novice to Know-How, developed by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). With priority given to the UK archive sector and DPC member institutions. You can register for free access at Novice to Know-How. About Novice to Know-How Novice to Know-How is part of The National Archives’ digital capacity building strategy, ‘Plugged In, Powered Up.’ Researched,...
Reopening Suspended Services
Archive services across the West Midlands have started to reopen after suspending services at the end of March. On Tuesday 30th June 2020 AWM held a virtual workshop to support member services with their planning and to share best practice. Safe and Sound Unsurprisingly, much of the discussion focussed on ensuring we welcome public back in a way that is safe for them and our staff. Some of the solutions, such as asking people to wash their hands...
Diversity training – a useful first course
AWM Trustee, Elizabeth Oxborrow Cowan shares her experience of completing diversity and inclusion training and becoming a Diversity Ally. 2020 has been a turbulent year in the long-running debate around diversity and the archives profession has had its fair share of that turbulence. Whilst the Archives and Records Association (ARA) and the National Archives are working to encourage change it is up to individual services and archive professionals...
Towards an Inclusive Archive
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May 19, 2021
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hosted by Archives West Midlands, this knowledge sharing event provides case studies and practical insights for archivists seeking to achieve meaningful inclusion for our services, customers, workforce. Through case studies and discussion, we will look at practical steps to support archivists, whether taking incremental steps or large bounds forward. AWM recognise that we can all learn from each other as we focus upon inclusion. Programme Colonia...
Digital Preservation Coalition’s Rapid Assessment Model workshop
On the 9th March 2021, AWM were delighted to host a Digital Preservation Coalition workshop for AWM members. The Digital Preservation Coalition’s Rapid Assessment Model (DPC RAM) is a quick way for any organization to assess its digital preservation maturity. The results should be used to inform planning. The DPC recommends preferably a risk based approach to planning using The National Archives DiAGRAM – the Digital Archives Graphical Risk Asses...
Applying the DPC Rapid Assessment Model in your archive service
On Tuesday 9th March 2021, 10am – 12pm, AWM will be hosting an online workshop exploring the Rapid Assessment Model. The Rapid Assessment Model was launched by the Digital Preservation Coalition in late 2020. It’s aim is to provide a simple tool by which an organization can quickly assess the status of its digital preservation across all aspects – organizational, technical and functional – measured against a set of maturity levels. This online wo...
Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service
Make some digital progress in 2021
AWM is committed to supporting its members and the archive sector to implement sustainable digital preservation. So AWM is pleased to announce its outline programme for this year’s Digital Progress Programme. As usual the focus is on providing our members with practical advice that they can directly implement in their work, and giving them opportunities to share and learn from each other. Here’s this year’s outline programme – firm dates will be...
"Thy Life is a Miracle": Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday in Testing Times
The COVID-19 crisis has curtailed plans to celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday in the usual manner. The traditional parade through Stratford-upon-Avon and the associated civic and cultural events have been abandoned in the interests of public health. However, a massive social media campaign is planned for 23rd April 2020 – #SaluteToStratford. Undertaken by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and partners, including Archives West Midlands, this will cel...
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Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Volunteers Learning Room
Prior to the lockdown being implemented we had suspended all our volunteering projects. The Service has in excess of 100 volunteers working with us and the challenge was to stay in touch with our volunteers and to support them where we could. Initially we had hoped to begin a programme of sending out scans and photocopies of documents for our volunteers to work on, but by 24th March we had to close the Service and the buildings to staff as well....
Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
Warwickshire Bytes – A Local Project with Global Reach
People around the world have been helping to index a huge collection of county Quarter Sessions Depositions as part of the Warwickshire Bytes project, with the enterprise proving so successful that Warwickshire County Record Office is now working to incorporate these remote volunteers into their core service. More than 80 people signed up to the project during 2019, using digitised images and documents shared via the Cloud to transcribe informati...
Archives West Midlands Annual Review 2018–2019
...We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest Annual Review. It, as ever, contains a wealth of information not only about us but also the wonderful work our members have completed in the last twelve months. This snapshot shows the amazing work archives across the West Midlands are doing working with new partners and finding exciting ways to engage new audiences: Please download the attachment to find out more....
Archives West Midlands Annual Review 2019–2020
We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest Annual Review. As with our previous reviews, it contains an overview of the work of Archives West Midlands and the exciting and innovative work our members have completed in the last year. The review provides an insight to the fabulous work archives across the West Midlands are doing and the importance of Friends and volunteers in achieving the successes we do. Please download the attachm...
Hereford Cathedral Library and Archives
Recording the Pandemic in Staffordshire
Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service are working with people from across the county to create a lasting record of Covid-19. “Lockdown Memories” explores how the pandemic and lockdown measures have affected the lives of Staffordshire people. Collective Memories Over 120 people have responded to an online questionnaire with stories and testimony about their experiences; from working on frontline services, coping with self-isolation or social...
A Model Project?
The Small Bills and Petty Finance project about the Old Poor Law, run in collaboration with the Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service, has produced a report about the integration of local collections, archival volunteers, and academic research. When the project began at Stafford back in 2016, it was hoped that the conjunction of archives staff, regular volunteers, and academic historians would enable a new sort of project, with shared parti...
Dudley Archives and Local History Service
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Library & Archives
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