Tna

10 years of Collection Care

By KostasNt

  • Q1 opens

  • Q2 Opens

  • Move to Kew completed

  • The National Archives is formed.

    The Public Records Office amalgamates with the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts,

  • 1911 Census digitazation project starts

  • TNA gains Indipendent Research Organisation status

  • Freedom of Information Act

  • Restructuring of CCD to form 3 sections

  • Natalie Ceeney CEO

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    Risk Assessment

  • DE and MB investigate options of preservation and access for BT 43

  • First LIA BT27

  • Engagement /profile raised with other heritage professionals

    Engagement /profile raised with other heritage professionals e.g IADA board; editorial board Journal of Paper Conservation, Icon Board of Trustees; Icon Professional Standards and Development Steering Committee; hosting/ giving papers at conferences/ seminars/ workshops

  • House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on Science and Heritage Enquiry

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    Collaborative PhDs with Cardiff

  • Demise of leafcasting as indicator of changing methods

  • Mould outbreak discovered in Q1

  • Dr Alan Young report

  • Technical examination of Domesday

  • Report on mould and how to treat it

  • Climate mapping of repositories

  • Hanwell Radiotelemtry system installed

  • Recording of mould cleaning starts

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    ESRC student placement - Econometrics

  • Coordinated and ongoing staff development programme begins

  • New Performance management system introduced

  • IIC London rejects digitization paper

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    BES Project

  • Total FM

  • AIC Denver (Creative Collaborations) - Presentation of digitisation paper

  • Start of ongoing programme of...

    Start of ongoing programme of updating of interventive conservation skills, e.g. media consolidation, brittle/transparent paper repair, iron gall ink treatment, mounting/display techniques, of preventive conservation skills: environment monitoring/calibration, pest monitoring/ identification, surveying, re-housing, of technical examination skills: media identification pigment identification parchment analysis; documentation database development and implementation.
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    EGOR

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    Ann Fenech - Life time of colour photographs in mixed archival collections - PhD

  • Studio refurbishment and investment in equipment for more effective/ efficient working methods

  • Collections maps

  • Energy and Sustainability Manager

  • First Annual Environmental Assessment

  • Conclusion of photogpraphic survey

  • Focus on proactive projects alongside reactive response to customers' needs (e.g. INF 3 consolidation; COPY 1; wool sample books; unfit items surveyed and reclassified)

  • First assessment of dust levels at DeepStore

  • Project teams instigated with non-managers leading projects

  • Improved and coherent customer support e.g. readers, staff, loans, museum

  • SAA (Soc of Am Archivists) approaches us to write Digitisation Book

  • Coherent training programme for interns

  • Upgrade of BMS in Q2

  • Coalition government focusing on de-centralisation

  • TNA2010 redundancy programme

  • TNA --> MoJ/Treasury (result of Armlength Body Review, not sure the date is correct)

  • Manager training initiative

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    Clothworker's Fellowship - BT 43

  • Digitization Book

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    Collections Demography Project

  • Cross departmental responsibilities transferred to non-managerial staff

  • Demise of MLA announced

  • Oliver Morley CEO

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    PAS198

  • Seasonal drift of set points for HVAC

  • Manager training modules rolled out to non-managers

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    Post-Doc Fellowship - Lee Gonzalez

  • Q1 Humidification project

  • Buffering capacity of boxes

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    Conservation Research Fellowship

    Developing preservation and conservation protocols for transparent paper
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    Conservation Research Fellowship

    Assessing the impact of dust in archives

  • What Do You Think We Do