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Department of Education and Science: Library Advisory Council (England) and Associated...
Catalogue reference: ED 241
What's it about?
ED 241
Department of Education and Science minutes and papers for the Library Advisory Council (LAC) for England and in some instances of the LAC for Wales.Also included are the records of the council's sub-committees, some of which were joint...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ED 241
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Education and Science: Library Advisory Council (England) and Associated Committees: Agenda, Minutes and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1966-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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Department of Education and Science minutes and papers for the Library Advisory Council (LAC) for England and in some instances of the LAC for Wales.
Also included are the records of the council's sub-committees, some of which were joint committees of both councils. These include the Joint Committee on Supply and Training of Qualified Librarians; Joint Committee on Inter-Library Co-operation: Joint Committee on Standards of Public Library Services.
There are no records of the council meetings after 1981.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By main council in chronological order followed by lower committees also in chronological order.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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112 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 1998 Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Archives and libraries
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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In 1993 these files were transferred from the Department of Education and Science, which was established in 1964, to the Department of National Heritage which had been created in 1992. When the Department of Culture, Media and Sport was set up in 1997 they came under its auspices.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1966-1980
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Full set has been transferred.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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It is not clear whether LAC was formally wound up in 1981 or lapsed when responsibility for the Arts was transferred to the newly established Office for Arts and Libraries.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7040/
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