Hi Adam,
Catherine Richards the Powys Archive Manager has been looking at the
possibility of placing the Catalogue on line and then being able to order
the specific document by Credit Card, and down loading the image. Very much
like the National Archive (PRO) site i.e. digitise-on-demand.
This is at a very early stage but Catherine is very supportive of this so
I'm sure that if she is able to find funding to digitise the collections she
will go down this road.
Please send her your thoughts:
catherin(a)powys.gov.uk
Catherine has submitted a full write up on the project which will be
published in the April issue of 'Cronicl Powys'.
Regards
Lloyd
Editor, Cronicl Powys
www.rootsweb.com/~wlspfhs
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From: "the_green_garden" <the_green_garden(a)hotmail.com
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Sent:
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:24 PM
Subject: [POWYS] Campaign to make local Archives more accessable
Hi all,
following on my success in getting Herefordshire council to join the 21st
century and allowing its archive department to accept credit and debit
cards.I'm now trying to get Powys council to do the same.You may ask why
am
I doing this ? well apart from making life easier it will enable more
people
to access the local archives from abroad as having to pay for
foreign
currency bankers drafts can dramatically increase the costs involved when
paying for copies of Wills etc. Also as local archives are usually
strapped
for cash financially,by opening up new methods of payment.It will
encourage
more people to use their services ultimately benefiting us all.Please
could
others on this list, write or email the local councillors at Powys
council.The contact details for Powys councillors can be found at here
http://demserv.powys.gov.uk/english/members/mtitle.htm
.
Best regards
Adam
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