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35All information in the Record includes its source so that its reliabilitycan be assessed. At the present time the Record contains about 8,500 items,and is growing rapidly as the parish and buildings survey programmes proceedacross the County.The purpose of the Record is to make its collected information availablefor a number of different uses. These include:a basic core of material on the Bedfordshire heritage, together withlocal Libraries, Museums and the County Record Office, with which interchangeof information takes place;a local detailed record source for national bodies and records, suchas the Ordnance Survey, the National Monuments Record and the DoE;information for planning purposes, in the making of local plans and inroutine development control;14. information and references for local and national research. Occasionallythere may be limitations on certain material due to requirements of confidentiality;5. the provision of material for various booklets, charts, maps, illustrationsand exhibitions available to the general public, teachers andstudents.Excavation, Post-Excavation and Publication: 1969 - 1977. See page 36.Publication OutletsThe main vehicle for the publication of academic archaeological reportsis the Bedfordshire Archaeological Journal, edited by D.H. Kennett for theBedfordshire Archaeological Council. This appears annually, and shows everysign of continuing to flourish at a time when other County journals are oftenin difficulties. Major articles are being offered to national journals. Noplans exist for publication of primary reports by the County Council, whichprefers to grant-aid the County journal, thus benefiting from its circulation.At this time, consideration is being given to the publication of a'Survey of Bedfordshire', in order to broadcast the results of various surveyprogrammes contained in the Sites and Monuments Record. Covering historicbuildings, archaeological sites, monuments, landscape features and settlementpatterns, this would attempt to provide simultaneously a preliminary researchindex, educational resource material, and information for the generally interestedlayman. This would be achieved through the issue, over perhaps aten year period, of a serial publication in about 200 parts, covering subjects,periods and location by parishes. Implicit in the scheme is thatsections could be published when they have been prepared without any delaythat would make them obsolete, and that sections could be revised and reissuedwhen they do become outmoded by new material or a new interpretation.Building RecordingDetailed recording of threatened buildings is arranged in conjunctionwith voluntary bodies and individuals, notably through the work of JohnBailey, who has produced a meticulous series of records covering many timberframedbuildings throughout the County.Other Historical Conservation WorkThis leaflet is primarily concerned with rescue archaeology, but thatactivity is only one responsibility of the Planning Department's ConservationSection.