The George Garrett Archive Project.

Field Trip to Liverpool’s Central Library. 

10th May. 
After a short break following the end of the sixteen-week taught modules that finished two weeks ago, fifteen of the group, plus myself and Tony Wailey, met up at Liverpool’s newly refurbished Central Library to meet Archivist Helena Smart and discuss the next stage of the project to catalogue, index and prepare the material for exhibition.

We were treated to a tour of the library facilities and even went backstage to see the state of the art technology at the heart of Liverpool’s archiving system, which is home to fifteen miles worth of Liverpool’s records going back to the 1700’s.

We then sat down with Helena who explained the concept behind archiving, and various methods used to develop indexes and catalogue records, which we will develop to ensure the George Garrett Archive is
available for future generations to use for research and knowledge and pure, simple enjoyment.

Meeting LJMU Art & Design Students.

Later in the week Mike and Tony Wailey met the Jon Spruce, head of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores University, and three of his second year students who are working with us to design and create a public installation about Garrett’s life and work.

The session was really exciting, with each student showing us their drawings and proposals for a design. We’ll put these up online soon; they are all so god that, no matter what design we finally decide on, they are all worth viewing, and are a fabulous record of the development of the project and the talent of each student.

At our next meeting we get down to the task of cataloguing, indexing, and preparing the archive for display Liverpool’s Central Library in May.

The George Garrett Archive project workshops are free and open to all. We meet every Monday, 6-8pm. For our next session on Monday 17th February, we will be meeting at LJMU’s Aldham Robarts Library, MaryLand Street. L1 9DE (off HopeStreet).