Local Record Centres Accreditation Pilot project
ALERC (Association of Local Environmental Records Centres) has successfully completed a pilot project to create and trial an accreditation scheme for Local Record Centres. The pilot was undertaken by Lincolnshire Environmental Records Centre and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Environmental Records Centre with the help of funding from Natural England. The project reached its conclusion at the end of March, with both records centres successfully achieving the standards required using the criteria and guidance developed as part of the pilot.
The results of the pilot were deemed sufficiently robust for ALERC to investigate a sustainable way to roll-out accreditation across the LERC community. Whilst not in a position to do this immediately, work is underway to move the process forward. In the meantime, copies of both the accreditation criteria and guidance documents will soon be hosted on the ALERC website so LERCs will be able to start preparing themselves to apply for accreditation in the future.
ALERC was formed in 2009 to provide a central voice for the views and concerns of the record centre community throughout the British Isles, whilst building a support-based network of knowledge and advice to meet the needs of its members.