Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

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The Libraries and Archives Imaging Group (LAIG) exists to provide a place for Imaging professionals to get together and get over excited about Library and Archive collections, and the challenges associated with photographing them. 

We meet twice a year, each institution take a turn to host, and the meeting is bookended with an informal networking dinner and drinks (non-compulsory, although always very well attended) and a studio tour of the host institution. During the formal meeting the group discuss an official agenda, usually topics cover technical issues and equipment, standards and service developments, and strategic projects. Whilst the informal elements of the meeting provide an opportunity for more detailed, and smaller group, conversations on specific issues, and a chance to develop professional networks and relationships.

The group is open, by request, to AFHAP members and organisations that are working within the Library and Archive sector as Imaging specialists. Please get in touch with the Chair of the group if you wish to request to join. 

Contacts

SIG Chair
Scott Waby

SIG Secretary
Laurie Auchterlonie
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Current Membership List

The Bodleian Library, The British Library, Cambridge University Library, John Rylands Library, London Metropolitan Archives, National Archives, Ireland, National Archives, UK, National Library of Ireland, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales, UK Parliamentary Archives, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin, University College London, University of Edinburgh, University of York, Wellcome Trust, Postal Museum and the University of Glasgow.

AHFAP Heritage is a workgroup dedicated to the management and preservation of the association’s history, archive and legacy. The group works closely with the AHFAP Committee and acts as an advisory board for management of the association's physical and digital archive, preservation, and dissemination of AHFAP's history and legacy. 

The group will also endeavour to deepen the connection with long-standing members and explore new ways of rewarding individuals who have served the association with distinction. It will define a new model of honours, in line with AHFAP’s modern structure, and a fair and inclusive approach. 

AHFAP heritage group members will aim to meet quarterly, in the last week of January, April, July and October, scheduling gatherings online or in-person. Unless a meeting is held fully online, members of the group will take turns to organise a physical meeting space, ideally with hybrid meeting capabilities. A formal meeting agenda will be proposed prior to each meeting.

The group is open to AFHAP members by request. Please get in touch with the Chair of the group if you wish to request to join. 

Contacts

SIG Chair and Co-Chair
Isidora Bojovic and Tony Harris 

This group brings together managers, leaders and their peers to share knowledge, experiences and practical approaches to the challenges of photography and digitisation within their institutions. It provides a space for open discussion, support and constructive  problem-solving, with a focus on sharing lessons learned and finding actionable solutions to common issues.

Members must be an AHFAP member with up to date membership confirmed by the AHFAP membership secretary.  An expression of interest form must be submitted providing additional information to the Chair(s) to confirm eligibility; the form is designed to understand how photography and digitisation are organised and carried out in their institution, so it can be ensured  that members of the group can support one another effectively. To make the knowledge shared within the group as useful as possible, members should be the final decision-makers for photography and digitisation within their institutions.

Rules 

• Permission must be given and/or sought, in writing, from speaker(s) before information they disclose during a meeting or in the Whatsapp can be shared in any capacity
• Neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed except with explicit written permission from that speaker
• All colleagues or affiliates mentioned in meetings are only referred to by they/them and job title
• Meetings are not minuted
• No forwarding of meeting invites, no stand-ins
• Messages or media in the WhatsApp Group must not be screenshotted or saved
• Phone numbers used in WhatsApp Group must not be shared without explicit written permission from member(s)

One time breach of rules results in immediate loss of membership.

Chairs:

Kira Zumkley, Head of Photography & Digitisation, V&A

Tori Miller, Photography & Imaging Manager, Tate

AHFAP Managers Special Interest Group - Expression of Interest – Fill in form

AHFAP Managers Special Interest Group - Terms of Reference