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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

College Archives


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 RCOG/A10

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: College Archives

Date(s): 1987-1999

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 boxes

Name of creator(s): Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The first College Archivist was appointed in 1985 at the instigation of the College Librarian and the Wellcome Institute to organise and list the archives of the College and deposits of private papers. The department is also responsible for records management and making recommendations on conservation needs; from 2008 it became involved in the electronic records management of the College. The College Archives originally came under the governance of the College Secretary's Office; in 2001 the Archives became part of a new Information Services department.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the College Archives primarily covering the period of office of the first Archivist, Claire Daunton, who established the Archives and created the cataloguing system. Records include material relating to accessions and deposits (1987-1988), cataloguing, records management and departmental policy (1989-1997). They include correspondence with the Vice-President's office (1993-1996) and regarding the indexing of Committee minutes (1990). Also includes papers of Dr Ornella Moscucci's unpublished history of the College (1989) and the College Archives Subject Guides (1999).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Records were appraised in July 2008 and most of the original series destroyed or removed to current Archives departmental reference files.

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Immediate source of acquisition:

All the records in this series have been produced by the Archives Office.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCOG catalogue and edited by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Import: Oct 2008; edit: Feb 2009.


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Learned societies | Associations | Organizations
Medical societies | Societies | Associations | Organizations
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Corporate names
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

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