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Encouraged, but has to be relevant to your role - if that doesn't directly include special collections it can be tricky
have to fund yourself if not directly relevant

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Staff to do presentations about conferences/training attended - followed by discussion about how this could be implemented (half day for team)
Shut up and write sessions
Space to think!

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finding the right collection of interest

is paper sustainable?  or is digital the move forward?

storage can be issue

security is a serious issue/hackers

funding can be accessible to all

skill set

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Could do more with what we have - that might lead to identification of skills gaps
Ways to exploit collections
generation of funding
get better facilities from estates development
Staff are good at looking after own development - encouraged to do so and supported
Lack of up to date special collections skills

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Use a framework for logging your impact which matches the parent organisation's.

Talk to HLF - they are very helpful for outlining value and making money always looks good.

Student experience surveys - be included!

Get the WOW factor - but how to demonstate it on a spreadsheet?

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no collections at the moment

trying to avoid digital material

research management can be utilised

end of life research  - going into a digital system/archives

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Limits across organisation - 2 courses per year, very little funding
Larger organisations have to show they're investing in their staff?
Has to tie in with PDPR - try to box clever and plan ahead for possible skills gaps
Especially important for lone archivists/librarians - need to get ideas and exchange ideas from others

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ask people who know how to do things rather than formal training

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Digital preservation skills
Born digital material - harvesting emails etc.
No team of people to be able to specialise - have to learn how and get on with it.
Curating
Social Media
Management of interns and volunteers - difficult balance - no time to supervise
Subject knowledge - develop on the job

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film archive are looking into born-digital material

records management can be an issue

good to have collaboration with other institutes on born digital material

storage - research data

MMU - research data coordinator helps researchers  on how to use and store their data however not part of SC/A

born digital material can inspire collections

skills set an issue for born digital material

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Using web-based outreach to make sure that it is commensurate to what you actually need to collect. Q: how best to do that online?

REF REF REF! Partner with organisations that have REF if you don't have them.

Count every user.

Qualitative data for health and well-being initiatives. Use your volunteers and map it onto the impact framework for the well-being and health initiative.

Record how much money you're making but don't forget how much money you're saving the Powers That Be with e.g. volunteers working with you benefit with health and well-being meaning that they don't use Local Authority services  instead.

Work with the parent organisation's aims and organisation in your projects and make sure to feed-up that information, e.g. diverse community outreach and engagement.

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no specific collections - Uni of Central Lancashire

none in special collections - MMU

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technology can be issue

staff/skills gap

budget/funding can be issue

digital is not always the answer

cataloguing is more important with budgeting

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Fundraising, keeping the knowledge, keep on with the outreach - know your audience (but then how do you find time for cataloguing?), need to keep ticking all the boxes while learning new things
Who provides the training - e.g. digital material  - no one quite sure what the solution is ?

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Fundraising needed = time consuming

Loss of budget and staff - delivering same service on less money

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More training for people who aren't archivists - lack of professional staff
Knowing what we don't know
Born digital skills
Staff retiring - replace those skills
Latin - less people have these skills, need to keep it going
Promotion - selling your collections
New areas opening up - community archives
only a few staff makes it difficult to keep up to date on training with lots of issues
Curating exhibitions

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experiment, evaluate and then use as a basis for bids

build partnerships and alliances

keep an eye on internal budgets in case underspend opportunities pop up

make sure your "ask" is ready in case an opportunity arises

be realistic about the time needed for bids, and leave plenty of time for planning

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Q asked by group: how to make yourself heard to the Powers That Be?

Make sure it's REFable.

Hang it on the reputation of the organisation.

Q asked by the group: how can we data mine impact from how users are accessing material online?  Particularly in what they're using it for - amateur historian or internal or external academic. Is there a pop-up or widgit that can be embedded to ask people for that information?

Worried about money and impact post-Brexit.

Working with other organisations for public engagement and piggy back on wider platforms and organisations to boost impact.

Get on the good books of marketing/communications in your organisation who will love the resources you have.

Link in with retention schules and legal liability to make your voice heard at the start and then work in the archives as following on from that. They'll listen if they're legally liable!

Make your statistics commensurate with ones the organisation and funders regonise.

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Liverpool Hope - no born digital material.

Liverpool Uni - have some collections but would like to look into the prospect of born digital material

costing is the key to born digital archive

digital has always been in the pipeline of being the future

digitisation can be hard to manage

the material must have good metadata

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will the integrity of the paper original be lost with digital?

digital systems must be properly managed particularly with

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Born digital / digital management - how to manage?
How to capture digital archives that may be lost/people are reluctant to give up

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is there a need to keep original material?

digital storage is expensive therefore problems with funding

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What ideas/plans do you have to address them?

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What ideas/plans do you have to address them?

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Seeking funding, public/academic engagement

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needs a record manager/skill set

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lack of resources
trust re audit trail

digital must go through record management system and also to preserve them too

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Do you have access to regular staff development

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Do you have access to regular staff development

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Lack of 'head space' after training and time to put training into practice

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Where do you feel there are skills gaps in your team?

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Where do you feel there are skills gaps in your team?

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Not knowing what I need to know - hard to get up to speed with new developments

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Where do you feel there are skills gaps in your team?

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Where do you feel there are skills gaps in your team?

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Lack of time to keep up to date/train on current professional issues

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Where do you feel there are skills gaps in your team?

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Where do you feel there are skills gaps in your team?

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Lack of dedicated archive staff

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only a tiny annual core budget

want to engage students and academics with the collections

outreach with wider audiences so need events etc budget

limits on staffing

sometimes want to do something special

bringing in funding wins brownie points!

TRACK RECORD SO FAR
Pilgrim: Cataloguing Grants
HLF

CONSTRAINTS
when do you find time to do applications?
Catch22: want funding to provide an archivist, but the funder wont give us funding as we dont have an archivist

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Group 1 LA at Lancashire  - sound archives

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Group 1 LA at Lancashire  - sound archives

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sound material i.e cassettes, mini discs

future is uncertain with born digital material

key issues - making it availabl

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Work with researchers - Research Excellent Framework for impact, on an oral history project with university researchers. Demonstrated benefit to community for feeling valued. REF useful impact framework.

Use the parent organisation's aims and objectives as a template for measuring your own service.

External partnerships can be funded and universities like money.

Q asked by the group: is there a pro-forma for navigating and creating internal impact report? TNA has advocacy and impact resources for this.

Learning and teaching involvement opportunities. Seminar groups which get tours and focused sessions for elements of collections.

Drop-in days for different themes aimed at different academic schools.

Record everything! Every person through the door, the collection used and the outcome/output of their visit.

Benchmarking against other archives' services.

Showing the stakeholders with influence the collection to hope for a visceral reaction to the collection. Can backfire when they think you're doing a good job when you're asking for assistance.

Get different reports of the collection as an asset from its current users. Use current contacts to reach higher up in the organisation.