Cooperation on Archives of Science in Europe

Coopération pour les Archives Scientifiques en Europe

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CASE

Aims and Objectives

CASE is a working group of archivists operating at a European level dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary scientific archives. The group seeks contact and cooperation with colleagues to make information available about

institutional,
regional,
national and
discipline-based scientific archives projects in Europe including surveys and finding aids.

The group is also interested in pursuing projects of archival research in contemporary science at the European level. This website is intended to give access to the work of the group and its members and to develop links with other European sites. Its objective is to become an important gateway to scientific archives sources in Europe.

Regular conferences have been held since 2003, held at Edinburgh, Munich, Strasbourg and Stockholm. Here are links to the proceedings from the first three meetings in CASE newsletters 9, 11 and 12. Papers from Future Proof IV, Stockholm 2008 are presented here (ongoing).

Future Proof V was held in Barcelona in May 2009. The programme is here and abstracts here.

News

Researching Lives: Medicine, Science and Archives, 8^th December 2009 at Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London

The British Records Association and the Wellcome Library are organising a one day conference on the wealth of resources available in medical and scientific archives to build up pictures of individual lives. The lectures will examine manuscripts and personal papers, films and photographs, forensic evidence and physical remains, covering a time frame from the 15^th century to the present day. Speakers include Georgina Ferry (science writer), Julianne Simpson and Helen Wakely (Wellcome Library), Dr Simon Chaplin (Royal College of Surgeons), Dr Tim Boon (Science Museum), Dr Paul Carter and Natalie Whistance (the National Archives) and Professor Allan Jamieson (Forensic Institute).

The Maurice Bond Memorial Lecture, given by Dr Richard Horton, Editor, the Lancet, will take place at the end of the day followed by a reception in the Wellcome Library which will include the launch of Research Uses of Health Archives produced by the Health Archives and Records Group.

For further details, please see here or go to http://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk

Appeal to Colleagues

Colleagues who are interested in participating in the work of the CASE group and sharing information about scientific archives in Europe are invited to contact members of the group.

CONTENTS

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