Seeking new representatives for the User Advisory Group

Seeking starting a representatives for the User Advisory Group

14 October 2014

Would you like to reproduce the views of archive users and helper to improve The National Archives' services? If you are a methodical archive user then we would have affection for to hear from you.

We are seeking four strange voluntary representatives to join our User Advisory Group (UAG). The UAG aims to bestow people who use our services the suitable to participate in The National Archives' planning and resolution making processes.

Delegates represent 'the vote' of different sections of our user community, not only their own interests. As well in the manner that attending meetings each delegate has a trust to engage with members of their user communities, to portion information and to gather feedback. We would separately like to hear from users who be moved they could effectively represent one or again of the following user groups:

academics - we are especially biassed in hearing from historians, and those with links to one or more of the skilled societies, and who are involved in encouraging announce-graduates to work with archival momentous

map room users - particularly those in operation with medieval records

county/external documents

on site personal interest researchers - individually those interested in areas other than derivation

Meetings are held at The National Archives in Kew four periods a year, usually on Tuesdays for the period of working hours. We publish dates and spells well in advance and delegates are expected to move every effort to attend. We claim prospective delegates to commit to a minimum term of one year's gain.

Find out more about the UAG and in what manner to apply.