Deborah Mason Deborah Mason

Resources for Environmental Advocacy, Outreach and Sustainability

A selection of useful resources for exploring the role of the archive sector in responding to the climate and ecological emergency, both in terms of mitigation and resilience. Very few are archive specific, as yet, but the list includes resources which can most readily be applied to the sector.

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Deborah Mason Deborah Mason

The Story at Mount Oswald, Durham - Built environment & passive storage

Mount Oswald Manor House, a Grade II listed building, has been converted into The Story, a facility designed to showcase the history of the county and its people. In the construction of the service, The Story implemented low carbon measures on the one hand, and a passive ethos to the construction of the archive storage repositories on the other.

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Deborah Mason Deborah Mason

Conwy Archive Service - Built Environment and passive storage

In 2015, Conwy Archive Service (CAS) began the process of securing funding for a new archive building. At the time, the service was housed in a draughty Victorian school building in Llandudno with a leaking roof, which posed a threat to the archive collections and offered no space for new additions. A move had become critical

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