Wednesday, May 12, 2004

viewing facility
a new experience for me visited on yesterday in Perry Bar BRUM


Initiative Media London - Centres of Excellence

see the mirror to the speaker's left
behind the mirror


MrWeb - Viewing Facility Guide

Services Provided - Other
Audio recording with 2 copies per group, flexible briefing
and de briefing time, tea, coffee, juice, nibbles & biscuits for respondents and clients.

we were in a Discussion Room
and videoed and taped


the meeting was run by Richard Whitehouse of ABL cultural consulting
organisde by Leonard Latiff

project leader Mark Prescott for The National Archives

The National Archives | What's New?

The Task Force proposes the creation of a new Archives Gateway to bring about a step change in the accessibility of services and collections.

One of the core priorities identified by the Archives Task Force is the Linking Arms programme. The National Archives - based in Kew, west London - is leading this programme in partnership with other national archival organisations in the UK (The National Archives of Scotland, the National Library of Wales and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland) and with regional and local organisations and community-based archives.

Linking Arms - recognised by the Archives Task Force to be the Archives Gateway - will bring together and develop all the existing networked information about archives in the UK. Linking Arms is currently investigating the infrastructure for this network and overseeing the development of new content, based on exciting initiatives in community archives and in response to user needs.


But why should we taxpayers pay twice for our archives?

Australia, Denmark, Arizona State all provided better service on line free to the whole world.


pay per view appeals to Empire building civil servants - but makes browsing prohibatively expensive.

Parkinson's Law, by Prof. Cyril Northcote Parkinson should be read by that lot !

Expenditures rise to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson

another camel is about to be created





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