CEREDIGION Archives has celebrated being awarded accredited status.

Archive Service Accreditation is the UK standard for archive services. Standards schemes and frameworks help archives to manage and improve their efficiency and effectiveness through external validation, and by identifying good practice.

A plaque was unveiled by the chairman of Ceredigion County Council, Cllr Lynford Thomas, to mark the occasion.

Helen Palmer, county archivist and information and records manager, thanked all who were involved in the archive’s development.

She said: “Thanks to the Archives and Records Management Team who have worked so hard for so long to make this service what it is today. I also give an extended thanks to the council staff within other departments, including ICT and Technical Services, who have helped us realise our ambitions and helped towards our accreditation.

“Thanks go to our donors, for their huge generosity in sharing precious documents with us, without whom our collections would lack content and variety.

“Thanks to our researchers who prove over and over again that what we do is meaningful, relevant and important.”

Ceredigion Archives is available for everyone to use; for personal research, for school projects, university degree work, academic research, and research for business purposes.

Staff at the Archives can suggest appropriate lines of research, and provide advice and assistance in the use of the documents.

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