Tag Archives: digitisation

Helping community archives during the pandemic: The Norfolk Record Office’s ‘Community Archives’ project

Posted on February 15, 2021 by nroeando2017

Community Archives: Skills, Support and Sustainability (CAS³) is a National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported project that began in March 2020 and is due to run until March 2022. As its name suggests, the goals of this project are to:

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Meet the team: ‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’, East of England Hub

Posted on December 12, 2019 by elizabethjayne2015

‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’ (UOSH) is a five-year UK-wide partnership project led by the British Library that will help save the nation’s sounds and open them up to everyone. Across the country, over 100,000 historical sound recordings are currently under … Continue reading →

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Thanks to you: celebrating 25 years of National Lottery funding for heritage and projects at the Norfolk Record Office

Posted on November 28, 2019 by elizabethjayne2015

The first National Lottery draw took place 25 years ago on 19 November 1994. Since then, £8billion from ticket sales has been awarded to more than 44,000 heritage projects across the UK through The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Saving the Nation’s sounds and opening them up to all

Posted on October 24, 2019 by elizabethjayne2015

Sound recordings help us to understand the world around us. They document the UK’s creative endeavours, preserve key moments in history, capture personal memories, and give a sense of local and regional identity.   The UK’s sound collections are, however, … Continue reading →

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Meet the team: Digitisation Work Placements at The Norfolk Record Office

Posted on January 5, 2017 by elizabethjayne2015

Thanks to funding from MAP and South Norfolk Council, since July 2015, the Norfolk Record Office has been able to offer voluntary 6 week digitisation work placements to young people not in employment, this is for one morning per week. … Continue reading →

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Meet the team: Colin Armstrong Digitisation and Digital Preservation Trainee

Posted on December 2, 2016 by elizabethjayne2015

Howdy everyone, I’m Colin Armstrong and I’m part of the last ‘Cohort 3’ group of Transforming Archives trainees, working with The National Archives and based at the Norfolk Record Office. Following on fae Lizzie and Pawel’s wee blogs about their … Continue reading →

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An introduction to the King’s Lynn Borough Archives

Posted on September 30, 2016 by elizabethjayne2015

Following a period of refurbishment at King’s Lynn Town Hall, the King’s Lynn Borough Archives is now re-open to the public. This week’s blog post, written by Archivist Stacey Kennedy, introduces us to some of the records held in the … Continue reading →

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Developments in digital preservation and digitisation at the Norfolk Record Office: an update from Transforming Archives Trainee Pawel Jaskulski

Posted on June 8, 2016 by elizabethjayne2015

It’s been six months since my first “Meet the Team” blog with Outreach and Engagement Trainee Lizzie and it calls for an update on what I have been up to since then! The main focus of my traineeship is to support the … Continue reading →

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