Launch of the Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland

Although I'm almost a week late, I'd like to join others in celebrating the launch of the newly formed Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland, which came into existence on 1 July 2010. With a remit to promote archives and records, archive and record users and record keeping professionals, I hope they are spectacularly successful.

Wikipedia dosses at the British Museum

This guy, Liam Wyatt, from Australia is camping out at the British Museum as a Wikipedian in Residence. As a volunteer. What an amazingly good idea this is. Apparenlty lots of good wikipedia articles have already sprung into being as a result.