November 2006
The wait is almost over!!
The 11th annual quality forum for archives and local studies at The National Archives, Kew
Wednesday 8th November 2006:
The twenty first century archive reading room
This year, the quality forum will look at public spaces in archive services: how should they be developed? What do we need to factor in to ensure that our reading rooms are fit for purpose and answer our users' expectations and our professional aspirations? How are other sectors, including public libraries, dealing with these questions? We have also asked users for their ideas and their views will be represented on the platform.
In the morning sessions, speakers include Charlotte Hodgson,
Convenor of the Public
Services Group, Sergio Dogliani, Principal Idea Store Manager at
the London Borough of
Tower Hamlets, Lee Oliver from The National Archives and Paul
Hadley who will articulate the users' perspective.
The afternoon sessions will focus on more practical matters and
we will be inviting practitioners who have recently redesigned
their public spaces to speak about their
experience of the change.
There will be, as usual, PSQG work in progress reports and a short business session at the end of the day.
You are all warmly invited to this, the 11th annual quality
forum, at TNA, on Wednesday,
8 November 2006.
PSQG 2006 ANNUAL FORUM PROGRAMME
10.30 - 11.00 Registration and Coffee
11:00 - 11.10 Welcome: The morning session will be chaired by Jan
Smith, County Archivist, Hampshire Record Office
11.10 - 11.30 Fit for purpose? User expectations and professional
aspirations for
archive public spaces today (Charlotte Hodgson, Principal
Archivist, Glamorgan Record Office and Convenor, PSQG)
11.30 - 12.00 The Idea Store Whitechapel (Sergio Dogliani,
Principal Idea Store Manager, London Borough of Tower
Hamlets)
12.00 - 12.30 Public services for the twenty first century
(Lee Oliver, Head of Public Services Development, The National
Archives)
12.30 - 13.00 The user's perspective
(Paul Hadley, independent researcher)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.05 Theory into practice: The afternoon session will be
chaired by Geoff Pick, Manager, Public Services, London
Metropolitan Archives
14.05 - 15:30
• A new archives reading room for King's College London
(Patricia
Methven, Director of Archives and Information Management,
King's
College London together Steven Pidwill from Shepheard,
Epstein,
Hunter)
• Specifications for the public spaces at the Devon Record
Office
(John Draisey, County Archivist, Devon Record Office together
with
Kevin Presland, Senior Architect, Atkins Design Solutions)
15.30 - 15.45 PSQG: Work in progress (including reports on The
National Visitors' Survey
2006 and the proposed distance users' survey)
15.45 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 16.15 Public Services Quality Group business meeting. (A
short business meeting, to which everyone is invited, will follow
at the end of the forum. Anyone interested in joining working
parties is welcome to attend.)
