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Coming Up...

15 April 2010
Film Night, Belmont Cinema, Aberdeen This April, Capturing the Energy is hosting an evening of historic film, selected from the Scottish Film Archive, before an invited audience at the Belmont Cinema in Aberdeen. Prior to the film event, we will be holding a short seminar at which a range of international archivists and researchers will speak.

2010

March
1 March 2010 Business Archives Council Scotland Scoping Survey completed and available to view. This major scoping survey has made some key recommendations which will be considered in the coming months.

2008

November
6 November 2008 Grampian Information Conference 2008: Customer Focused Services for the Future. Keynote Speaker: Miles Oglethorpe, Historic Scotland. Click here for more information.

October
31 October 2008 - Scotland’s Energy: From Coal to Renewables – the Story since 1945 (PDF). Papers will be delivered by a number of Capturing the Energy steering group members at a one-day conference in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, sponsored by The Business Archives Council of Scotland and Glasgow Museums.

August:
Society of Archivists Conference, York. Paper to be presented by the University of Aberdeen's Archivist.

March:
Frigg Documentation Project Launch & Exhibition, Aberdeen

2007

December:
10th - 11th - Petroleum Exploration Society (GB) Data Management Seminar, London. Presentation to be given by Siobhan Convery, Archivist at the University of Aberdeen.

October:
20th - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Industrial Archaeology in Scotland: Future Perspectives. Presentation by David Powell, BACS Surveying Officer.

September:
5th - Presentation at Offshore Europe, Aberdeen (PDF).

June:
21st - Grampian Information Oil Group Meeting, Aberdeen. Presentation by Kathryn Steenson, Archivist (Oil & Gas) at the University of Aberdeen.

May:
26th - Economic & Social History Society of Scotland/Scottish Records Association Conference: Who Owns History? in Dundee. The paper presented by David Powell (BACS Surveying Officer) was entitled 'Encouraging Business to own their History'.

2006

December:
7th - Scottish Oil Club, Edinburgh (PDF).

November:
4th - Business History Colloquium, McCord Museum, in Montreal, Canada. The paper presented by David Powell (BACS Surveying Officer) as part of the two-day 2006 McCord Colloquia was entitled 'Preserving Scotland's Business Heritage: the Work of the Business Archives Council of Scotland.'

19th - 'Lives in the Oil Industry' Lecture by Dr Miles Oglethorpe, at the University of Aberdeen.

October:
13th - Frigg UK Documentation Project launched, Aberdeen (PDF).

September:
15th - Congress of the International Committee on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage at Terni, Italy (PDF).

7th - Decommissioning Guidelines updated to include CTE (PDF).

March: 8th - Conference at the University of Aberdeen to launch CTE (PDF).