Strong Rooms

A free touring public art installation bringing the West Midlands' archives out onto the streets

[Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton]

Starting with Victoria Lemieux, digital preservation 2.0: towards a networked, distributed and autonomous preservation model, drawing on experience of current recordkeeping systems and the compressed timescale for preservation actions #caisconf18

[Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton]

Summary of pilot study findings #caisconf18:

[MIRRA: Memory Identity Rights in Records Access @mirraproject]

How do we make space for stories to come forward? Suggests we should change the ways that care records are captured in general; reconsider the retention rules for care records & expand definition of the record - non-linear, representational forms should be included. #caisconf18

[Susan Corrigall @SueCorrigall]

#caisconf18 Diagram of record keeping agents covering children’s services @Vicky_hoyle

[Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton]

#caisconf18 redactions under Data Protection legislation inconsistent and can feel random/distressing, privileging others' rights to privacy rather than the care leaver's sense of identity.

[Sarah Coakley @sarahceeoakley]

Also learned that the Welsh for microwave is popty ping! #caisconf18

[Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton]

#caisconf18 Devastating report in Australia on "Problems with records and recordkeeping" shows that access to records, incompleteness of records and content of records are actively damaging issues.

[Susan Corrigall @SueCorrigall]

Powerful, sobering cartoon as Joanne Evans describes 2-day summit on participatory record keeping for child care records in Australia #caisconf18

[MIRRA: Memory Identity Rights in Records Access @mirraproject]

Opening a panel on 'Owning the narrative: victims, practitioners and custodians' is Zarya Rathe, Midlothian Council on 'Tracing the gap: capturing narratives of historical trauma' in records of abuse and care #caisconf18 (Thread)

[Tim Gollins - No Longer Active on This Platform @timgollins]

#caisconf18 - Session 4: Archives and memories - First speaker - Jeannette Bastian, Simmons College, Boston, USA, ‘Beyond touchstones and triggers: decolonizing archival memory’ - begins with a brief history of Caribbean colonies - addressing Colonialism.

[Anna Sexton @AnnaSexton100]

Graham highlights the importance of archival accessibility in relation to being able to claim that archives act in the public good, particularly when archives are elite/ privileged spaces #caisconf18

[Jenny Hunt @jennyhuntdp]

Lemieux: computer code is the new palaeography! #caisconf18 #digitalpreservation #digitalskills 😁😁😁

[ArchivesWestMidlands @ArchivesWM]

Great opportunity today to speak to @Socitm_WM about our #digitalpreservation project. Useful IT contacts.

[Birmingham Archives & Collections @TheIronRoom]

During this week's closed week here in the @libraryofbham #Archives we've been very busy with staff training, stock moves & collections development. Today we've been working on the transfer to us of the @woodbrookeuk #Archive!

[Dudley Archives @DudleyArchives]

We’d like to say a big thank you to the Friends of Dudley Archives who last month purchased records at auction to then donate to the Archives. The records belonged to J. B. Cochrane of Cochrane & Co., who operated Woodside Ironworks and Foundry, and date back to 1859!

[HE Midlands @HE_Midlands]

. @HE_Archive have discovered an amazing collection of photos from health care during 1938 to 1943, learn more here: https://t.co/4g88gycCwl . Photo is of nurses arranging infants in cots outside King Edward VII Memorial Children's Hospital in #Birmingham

[Warwick MRC @MRCWarwick]

102 years ago this week, the #EasterRising took place

In the weeks afterwards, Dublin printers produced illustrated 'souvenirs' - these two booklets are included in our digital collection 'From Easter Rising to Civil War: Ireland, 1916-1922' (https://t.co/7vjcTC45Wu)

[Warwick Poppies 2018 @WarwickPoppies]

The next workshop at the Market Square Museum for @StMarysWarwick #warwickpoppies2018 is on Wednesday 2nd May at 1.30pm. No pre-booking or skill required! Big thank you to @RuairiTheFawn for organising this.

[SF Said @whatSFSaid]

"A library is a space ship... a time machine... a teacher... a friend." Isaac Asimov

Libraries remain all of that - and they matter MORE THAN EVER in the digital age. We must support them if we want to keep the flame of literacy alive! #SchoolLibrariesMatter