Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Record Keeping Advice.
Record keeping is important to ensure that the business of the Church can be properly managed and the history of the Church reliably told. In recent years there has been a tendency in many institutions to believe that record keeping is more efficient if done electronically which offers the possibility of ease of recovery, no physical storage and universal access. But this view is not shared by the RCB which has recently issued new guidelines on record keeping.
The RCB Library has produced a new leaflet entitled’ Making and Minding the Minutes’ as a response to concerns about the digital storage and circulation of minutes online. It is aimed at those in secretarial positions on parish and cathedral vestries, the boards of church institutions, as well as diocesan synods and councils, and advises that they need to print out, sign and date their minutes from meeting to meeting, and ultimately bind them in chronological order into a book.
Minutes are an important historical record of administrative business, and can help to date key events, presence of personnel and decision making. Storing master minutes digitally rather than in a hard–copy is not acceptable. It is a risk and has become a matter of concern in the RCB Library where gaps have been observed in minutes, where there should be runs of records. Instead, meeting secretaries must ensure that the master set of minutes is printed for the next meeting and signed and dated by whoever is chairing the meeting.
The Library staff can advise on all aspects of this policy and recommend reputable book binders. For further information please email [email protected]
In a new post on the Church of Ireland website Rachel Bennett, RCB Library Assistant Archivist, tells of the importance of the find of three reels of cine film dating from 1958 and 1960 containing footage of significant events in the diocese of Down and Dromore almost 70 years ago. See https://www.churchofireland.org/news/13401/rachel-bennett-rcb-library-on
‘Summer Music at Sandford’ continues this lunchtime (Friday) in Sandford parish church, Ranelagh, at 1.10pm with guitarist, Chien Buggle.
Today (Friday) the choir of Trinity Episcopal Church, New York, will sing Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, where they will also sing at the 11 am Eucharist on Sunday and at the 3,30pm Evensong . They will sing Evensong again on Wednesday at 6pm.
Tomorrow (Saturday) in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, the choir of Southwark Cathedral will sing Evensong at 5.30pm and they will sing again at the 11.15am Eucharist and the 3.15 Evensong on Sunday. Southwark Cathedral is the first of a series of visiting choirs who will sing Evensong in St Petrick’s next week. Amici will sing on Monday, the Dublin Airport Singers on Tuesday and Haly Trinity Church, Stockport will sing on Thursday.
On Tuesday there will be a lunchtime recital in St Mary’s Cathedral. Limerick, at 1.15pm by pianist, Adam Heron.