Managing the collection and making it accessible
The collection team currently consists of 3 core staff members, plus several additional project-funded staff. We are grateful, in particular, to the Heritage Lottery Fund for supporting work to make the Seven Stories collection accessible, through the Storylines project.
At this stage, the main areas of activity are preservation and cataloguing. The first sections of the catalogue to be completed relate to the Robert Westall and Kaye Webb archives these will shortly become available online via the Access to Archives portal, hosted by the National Archives. New areas of the Collection are constantly being catalogued and as they are completed will be made available online in the same way. Direct access to the catalogues via the Seven Stories website will be developed in 2007 Interim records, such as boxlists, are available on request for material which is not yet fully catalogued.
Visitors who wish to work with materials in the Collection are requested to consult the online catalogue first, where possible and to contact the Collection team for further information and/or to make an appointment.
Another very important aspect of our work involves enabling school and community groups to have hands-on access to material in the collection. For more information about this aspect of the Storylines project please contact the team.
