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Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
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-----Original Message-----
From: West, Catherine [mailto:catherine.west@PRO.GOV.UK]
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 10:22 AM
To: ARCHIVES-NRA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: A2A Launch


Archival Treasures Accessible Online

Access to Archives (A2A), an online catalogue of the vast archival resources
of England was launched yesterday at the Public Record Office.

This will be an invaluable source of information on our archival heritage,
brought together for the first time in one place allowing researchers to
locate documents with a few mouse clicks.  It consists of catalogues
describing the archives of local record offices, university archives and
special repositories across the whole of England.  These catalogues are the
key to the archives they describe and will make locating specific documents
a much easier task. They include links to contact details of the
repositories where the archives are located

A2A's powerful search engine will enable researchers to locate documents
across the country using a variety of methods including keywords.  For
example, a search for Christopher Marlowe will, among other things, locate a
document relating to his assault in Canterbury in 1591; a foot and mouth
keyword may lead you to a Bedfordshire Clerk of the Peace who was paid extra
during a nineteenth century epidemic of the disease.

A2A is the result of a collaborative venture led by the Public Record
Office, the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and the British Library.  A2A
aims to provide an archive network for England by March 2002, when 8 million
catalogue entries will be searchable online via a single web access point
www.a2a.pro.gov.uk.

-Ends-


Notes
*       A2A is part of the United Kingdom archive network.  It is led by the
Public Record Office, the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and the British
Library, working with the National Council on Archives, Regional Archives
Councils, the Association of Chief Archivists in Local Government, and the
Society of Archivists.
*       The A2A Central Team and infrastructure is funded by a grant from HM
Treasury's Invest to Save Budget (ISB).  Some individual A2A projects have
received additional funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).

Cathy West
Assistant Press Officer
Public Record Office
0208 392 5277


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