Expression of Interest – Craigmillar archive project
Craigmillar Archive Project
Expression of Interest Information
Scoping and cataloguing
hard copy materials of the Craigmillar Festival Society
December 2008
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Expression of Interest – Craigmillar archive project
Introduction
Castle Rock Edinvar Housing Association would like to receive expressions of
interest from suitably qualified archivists, either on a self employed or
seconded basis, to sort and catalogue the archives of the Craigmillar Festival
Society with a view to later storage and scanning in a digital format of the
records where appropriate.
This brief provides some background information on the project and our
requirements. Interested parties are requested to submit a response by
Monday 2nd February 2009.
Short listed candidates will be then be invited to bid for the work following
initial interviews in February 2009.
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Background and Context
The Craigmillar Festival Committee was born in 1962, when Peffermill Primary
School Mother’s Club in the south-east side of Edinburgh, created a Festival to
celebrate local talent. In 1970 the Craigmillar Festival Committee gained
official recognition, charitable status and changed its name to the Craigmillar
Festival Society (CFS). By 1976 the Society was employing 600 people and
involving 500 volunteers. That year, 7000 people either took part or attended
the annual festival. By this time, it had received a major anti-poverty research
grant through European Funding. After much success over many, many years
the funding was cut in 2002 and the organisation is no more.
One of the founder mothers was Helen Crummy MBE, who was organising
secretary of the Society for 23 years. During that time she has accumulated
and saved many papers, articles, slides, negatives and films about the world
renowned organisation. It is this information that we wish to digitise and
create a searchable database of this material. The aspiration is that this
material will form the basis of a wider collection of material to be displayed
and stored in the Craigmillar Room in the new Craigmillar Library and the
Edinburgh Room in the Central Edinburgh Library.
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The Commissioners
Castle Rock Edinvar Housing Association is commissioning the work on behalf
of the local community. Funding has been received from the Heritage Lottery
Fund to complete this work.
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Further information about the work to be completed
The current records are stored in the home of Helen Crummy, Newcraighall,
Edinburgh. The records are located in small room filed in a reasonable date
order. The records include a variety of material including newspaper cuttings,
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minutes, reports, photographs and video film over at least four decades.
Records will need to be sorted and catalogued at this location.
The following key tasks are required to be completed;
1. Review the records stored in the home of Helen Crummy.
2. Define an overall structure for the classification of the archive and
agree this with the steering group. This structure will need to be
suitable both for manual searching and for a web based database
system.
3. Identify those materials which are suitable for scanning and those
which will need to be viewed as hard copy items only.
4. Provide an assessment as to the perceived value and quality of the
records from a historical perspective and identify those materials which
you feel will be of particular interest to visitors to the Craigmillar and
Edinburgh Library.
5. Identify and report any issues around permissions required for use of
the materials providing suggested solutions where appropriate to the
steering group.
6. Compile an end of project report identifying outlining the methodology
for the catalogue, the complete contents of the archive and suggested
next steps to progress the archive to digital format. An indicative
budget for the next stages of the work should be compiled as part of
the report.
As part of your response to this brief we would be interested to understand
what resources you will require to conduct this work.
The successful candidate will be expected to work closely both with Helen
Crummy and her assistant to help increase their personal knowledge of the
archiving process and to ensure that the project respects Helen’s wishes and
aspirations for the archive at all times.
All work must be completed by the end of July 2009.
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Budget
The total budget available for this work is £10,000 including any VAT
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Submitting an expression of interest
If you are interested in being considered for this work then please send a
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an indication of your general approach to the work, including reference to
previous work of a similar nature
your cv
a method statement outlining the specific work to be undertaken
expected time-scale for delivery of the project given that the work needs
to be completed by the end of July 2009
the staff who would be involved in the project and their qualifications and
experience
an indicative cost, with an explanation of how this is arrived at such as the
number of days at set rate plus additional costs no greater than the
budget of £10,000 inclusive of any VAT
an understanding of the equipment you will require access to remembering
that if you do not have your own equipment this will need to be identified
and costed.
confirmation of insurances
by first class post, or no later than noon, on Monday 2nd February 2009 to
Heather Macnaughton, Head of Neighbourhood Regeneration, Castle Rock
Edinvar, 1 Hay Avenue, Edinburgh, EH16 4RW
A panel will select those proposals which they believe meet the brief and will
interview any successful applicants in February 2009.
If you wish to discuss any aspect of the brief then please phone
Heather Macnaughton on 0131 657 0633 or e-mail
heather.macnaughton@castlerockedinvar.co.uk
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