Demand for information about sites and
collections via the iternet exceeded 133,000 visits during the year
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Douf Ford, Head of Community Learning,
reads from his book Jersey 1204 - A Peculiar Situation
Photo courtesy of Jersey Evening
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Access
Trust staff worked hard in 2004 to make collections and sites widely accessible. Pressure on visitor numbers continued. 184,792 people visited our paying sites in 2004; 46,350 of them were local. We hope to be able to significantly increase the use of sites by local people during 2005 through an extended exhibition and events programme. Increases in visitors at Jersey Museum last year are attributable to the success of its exhibition programme.
Archive use was maintained at just under the 4,000 mark and there were 640 new registrations. Entrance to the sites by Société Members accounted for 1,640 visits.
More than 10,000 people came to the sites out of hours for a mixture of weddings, private events and business activities.
Online access becomes more important each year. We added more than 10,000 new records and 1,600 images of documents and objects to our online database in 2004. We saw a significant increase in visitors to our websites with over 133,000 hits.
The Jersey Heritage Trust delivered an impressive list of publications in 2004, including Dr Judith Everard’s and Professor Sir James Holt’s 1204: the forging of an island community and Doug Ford’s children’s history of the same subject 1204 A Peculiar Situation. We also commissioned a new analytical history of the German Occupation, The British Channel Islands under German Occupation 1940 - 1945 by Dr Paul Sanders and continued preparation of Sans Nom, a catalogue of the Trust’s holdings of work by Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.