Staffing and costs of conservation and collection care at Hereford Archives and Record Centre

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Dear Herefordshire Council, for Herefordshire Archives and Records Centre

Please could you tell me who manages conservation at Herefordshire Archives and Records Centre and are they on the collections management team?

Do you have in-house conservators or do you outsource all your conservation requirements to external conservation firms and if so, who and how much do you spend per year on this?

Do you have any contract staff working in-house on external grant funded projects or do you send specific items out for specialist conservation?

If the conservation manager is a conservator do they make the conservation decisions for the collections or are these decisions made by the archivists without consulting with the conservator?

If you do have conservators on staff , are any of them accredited conservators and do you support staff training, accreditation and continued professional development (CPD) to keep up conservation skills?

Do you have conservation volunteers working regularly at the record office? If so how many and do these volunteers undergo security checks or other checks? Are they managed by the in-house conservator/s or are they left to work on their own on the collections and be in the archive stores on their own?

If you don't have in-house conservation staff do you have volunteers doing all the skills of trained conservators?

Do you pay for any external conservation support via an annual membership fee such as that with National Conservation Service (NCS) or Harwell and if so how much per year do you spend on this and what level of membership do you have?

How much is the annual budget for conservation and collection care, this would include items such as conservation materials, conservation packaging, conservation equipment and maintenance and staff training for conservation and collection care.

Do you also undertake any income generation for conservation where you offer your in-house conservation services to generate income for Hereford Council, if so how much do you charge per hour and what has the income been in the last three years?

Yours faithfully,

Jonathan Smith

Access To Information, Herefordshire Council

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Information Access Team

Herefordshire Council

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Jaques, Bethan, Herefordshire Council

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Good morning,

 

Please see attached response for your Freedom of Information request.

 

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Name        Bethan Jaques                                     Information
Access Team

Job title     Information Access Officer                 Plough Lane

Landline    01432 261916                                        Hereford

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Dear Jaques, Bethan,

Thank you for your recent FOI reply to my questions regarding Conservation and Collection Care at Hereford Archives

Yours sincerely,

Jonathan Smith