Archivists participating in nanocellulose workshop
Delegates enjoyed getting hands-on with nanocellulose made from sustainable raw materials in a conservation workshop at #ARA2024 - including some particularly adventurous archivists! Roll on #ARA2025 😃
Two people posing at the Ancestry exhibition stall at ARA Conference 2024.
Our bursary recipients were really pleased to meet the Ancestry team to thank them for the bursary... and of course to grab some swag too! #ARA2024 Hopefully our #ARA2025 attendees will have an equally good time 😀
Colour photograph of four people participating in panel at ARA Conference 2024 as an audience looks on
#ThrowbackThursday to this panel session about #CarbonLiteracyTraining at #ARA2024! Looking forward to continuing the conversation at #ARA2025 🥳
Photograph of Lorraine Finch giving keynote at ARA Conference 2024.
I can't believe it's been over 6 months since #ARA2024 and this excellent (and packed!) keynote by @conserve_lfcp! Don't worry though, less than 6 months to go until #ARA2025 in Bristol!
Colour photograph of the audience at ARA Conference 2024
#ThrowbackThursday to our first keynote at #ARA2024, by Alistair Brown from National Lottery Heritage Fund! He outlined how archives can set out the challenges they face & demonstrate how archives make a difference when writing a bid... a discussion which will hopefully continue at #ARA2025!
I wrote up my experiences at the recent @araukie.bsky.social conference with a focus on environmental sustainability #ARA2024 here: anoldhanddigital.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/a... Lots of homework for me!
Have had a fantastic few days at #ARA2024. So many excellent and exciting ideas to steal and lovely to see some old friends and meet new people. Now enjoying my last morning in Brum - the hotel is a lot quieter without several hundred archivists!
An absolute pleasure to talk at #ARA2024 yesterday, with Judy and Lucy, about our Places, Plants and People Archive Network. Super proud of our network and what we’ve achieved! (And yes, Lucy and I accidentally wore matching dresses!)
Ruth MacLeod and Elizabeth Thompson-Macrae using a cute AI generated cat to talk about the sustainability of the recordkeeping profession. Props! #ARA2024
Laura Cotton speaking to a packed house in the Rookeries on the ‘Crowd Cymru’ digital volunteering project #ARA2024 find out more here www.archives.org.uk/news/crowdcy...
Penultimate panel session for #ARA2024: options for a greener digital archive service. Becky Bowd on VRRs to kick us off: what was the Heritage Quay approach and how did it go?
Sharing this great pic of our ARA Excellence Award winners: ARA Excellence Award winners: Rachael Muir, Richard Aitken (for Highland Archive Service), James Ranahan and Tom Bennett and Nicole Hartman (Nicole not pictured) #ARA2024 (photo by Simon O'Connor)
Congratulations to Jim Ranahan, Rachael Muir, Tom Bennett, Nicole Hartland & Highland Archive Service for their ARA Excellence Awards presented at #ARA2024 read more here www.archives.org.uk/news/ara-exc...
Low cost/no cost tips for sustainability in cultural heritage by Lorraine Finch
Lorraine Finch (tomorrow's keynote) got a big plug for her book from today's keynote. She has five copies for sale here or you can buy ebook/print on demand from most online booksellers #ARA2024
Lorraine Finch about to start her create your sustainability action plan in an hour workshop #ARA2024
Don't forget, lucky #ARA2024 delegates - that this afternoon's tea break is the Ice Cream break! Once again sponsored by Bruynzeel (will be in back of Mercian 2
A careers game is underway led by Philip Milnes-Smith, Iida Saarinen and Phoebe Brunt & Eyizera Farrow- aimed at building a sustainable workforce #ARA2024
Heather Forbes from Gloucestershire Archives mentioned using Julie's Bicycle tools for monitoring - you can find them (and more) here juliesbicycle.com/our-work/cre... #ARA2024
Fab session from Heather Forbes, Caroline Williamson & Michaela Hart. A lot of focus on holistic solutions but powerful stuff from MH from Australian perspective: we are "an age of catastrophe, but also an age equipped" seeking out that equipment and the tools we need is what #ARA2024 is all about!
In the apprenticeships panel #ARA2024. Fantastic to have so many of the pioneering level 7 cohort in the room and speaking.
My fellow trustees are at #ARA2024 in Birmingham today talking about the Archives West Midlands Self Assessment Tool for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB SAT)
Worksheet and guidance available to download 👇 @araukie.bsky.social
Some thought provoking stuff in AWM led session. Key Qs for orgs:
Who identifies need for change in diversity, inclusion, belonging matters?
Who implements change?
How far does org recognise need for & support change? #ARA2024
Ruh roh, this afternoon is your last chance to find us at the booth because we need to take down so the folks at #ara2024 can enjoy the gala dinner tonight. Come by and say hi (or not, no talking required) and grab a sticker!
Looking forward to this next session at #ARA2024 - how climate scientists and archivists are working together to understand how climate is changing. We only know about this change, demonstrably, through reliable records.
A great start to today's sessions with Zak Mensah's keynote "how things turned out ok" so much good stuff to share so will be following up with more detail later #ARA2024
ZM accidentally just pitched Date Night at the Archives, and I will absolutely send you an (expired, invalid, old and/or misprinted) #ArchivesAccreditn certificate with your name on if you try this. #ARA2024
Starting out in #ARA2024 with Zak Mensah's keynote with the genuinely inspiring title How Things Turned Out Okay. Focus on the public sector, which is a tough subject right now.
Day two of #ara2024 and we are READY for your questions. Come by the booth and grab a sticker. @kellystewart.bsky.social does NOT want to lug them back home to Vancouver. What will the customs folks say?
It’s the metadata which spirals out of control… #ARA2024
Banqueting Suite, Birmingham Council House designed by Yeoville Thomason- foundation stone laid in 1874 - completed in 1879. Extended in 1880s to include the museum & art gallery and then again in 1911 - Grade II listed #ARA2024
