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June 2008
The Pilgrim Trust raises over £1 million towards a National Cataloguing Scheme
The first ever UK National Cataloguing Scheme for archives was launched in September this year. The Pilgrim Trust has raised over £1 million of funding for the scheme from the Foyle Foundation, the Wolfson Foundation, the Mercers Company Charitable Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Goldsmiths Company.
Following a two-year regional pilot project jointly funded by The Pilgrim Trust and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, it has emerged that there is a real demand for a national cataloguing scheme to help combat the immense archive cataloguing backlog. The Pilgrim Trust has engaged other charitable donors in a partnership to support a National Cataloguing Scheme. The Scheme, which will run yearly until 2012, is open to applications from archive-holding institutions. The National Archives will assess the first-stage applications and the final decisions will be made by an independent Cataloguing Grants Panel. More information
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