AKA Ruth provides an update on a recent Scottish Council on
Archives development and its impact on LHSA...
Last week I went to a Scottish Council on Archives (SCA) event
in which they introduced their brand new Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation
status (SCIO). SCA provides leadership
for the archives and records management sector in Scotland in a number of important ways
(more information here) and we’ve
worked closely with SCA for a few years now. We’ve certainly taken advantage of
all the fabulous advocacy work SCA does for our sector - our most notable
success was submitting a recipe for invalid fruit tart to their
awareness raising campaign, ‘Edible Archive’, which made its way onto the 2012 Great
British Bake Off!
More recently we were
awarded Accredited Archive Status, a process which was supported by SCA,
and we’ve been pumping their Education Development Officer for information to
help with our new Wellcome Trust-funded public engagement project where we’ll
be producing online resources for teachers. We’re also looking forward to Paul,
Edinburgh University’s Skills for the Future Trainee, spending some time with
us over the summer. He’s been based in the Centre for Research Collections since
October last year as part of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant managed by SCA that
aims to offer experience in the archive sector to six people each year for
three years.
But what does SCA’s
new SCIO status mean for us? Well, we’ll be hoping to carry on working with a
great organisation, but now it will be as a member of it! Becoming a member is
free, and if you’d like to join us in joining them, more information is available
here: http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/membership.
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