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[edit] About ELSA
Elsa is a collective of independent libraries that has come together to make their archives more accessible, and to promote collaboration between their host organisations. ELSA is working towards facilitating access to paper archives, electronic and media resources of organisations that represent the wealth of East London's history and present cultures, but have not yet established a shared electronic catalogue.
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As a group ELSA is undertaking research into archiving techniques: how to preserve and present our paper archives, as well as how to collaborate on electronic archiving, using Semantic Web techniques without having to create a single system to which all the archives will have to conform.
ELSA is also an open template for other libraries and groups. We are actively collaborating with and learning from other independent archives around the world, from Belgrade to Brazil in refining and sharing our research.
[edit] Libraries in the ELSA:
- Mute Magazine
http://www.metamute.com
The Whitechapel Centre, Myrdle St. E1. - London Action Resource Centre Library
http://londonarc.org
Fieldgate St, E1. - Freedom Press
http://vega.soi.city.ac.uk/~louise/freehome.html
Whitechapel High Street London E1. - Limehouse Town Hall
http://twenteenthcentury.com/lth
Commercial Road, E14.
[edit] Proposed archives for the ELSA expansion programme
- Docker's Club archive, Limehouse, E14.
- East London Muslim Centre, Whitechapel High Street, E1.
- Toynbee Hall, Commercial Street, E1.
- Kingsley Hall, Bromley by Bow, E3.
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Contact:
ELSA
Ishmail Malik
07956376575
ish@elsa.org.uk
