#CILIPConf18 kicking off day 2 with Samira Ahmed speaking about the Windrush archive scandal.
Looking at some unusual libraries used for her research - Gram Library (BBC music and recordings), Science Museum library and archives.
Private school archives had fascinating insights into the education of girls over time.
We are a country obsessed with genealogy, but most non-white British people don't have the same records available to trace their past because of racism and colonialism.
Ellis Island has an archive of immigration records paid to be digitised by voluntary donations. Why doesn't Britain have one to hold records of immigration?
What do you keep, what do you throw away? If it's "all online" do you need paper cuttings? But how permanent is online, really?
Dangers of volunteers in libraries and locking down unstaffed libraries so teenagers can't use them outside school hours. Expert curators in museum jobs decreasing.
Early female Egyptologists brought artefacts back to regional museums which councils now can't afford to maintain and which need sensitivity to display.
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