The National Archives in London has said:

We are not aware of a barcoding project of this scale and ambition in the UK record offices … congratulations on your important groundbreaking work. It is cutting edge stuff and you are right to be proud of it.

Nearly all - about 95% - of all documents which get regularly produced in Huntingdon's searchroom have now been linked to location barcodes. These include:

• all our parish records
• all our nonconforist church records
• all our family and estate collections
• nearly all of our maps
• the majority of our photographs
• many of our local government collections
• many of our unoffical collections.
  

In terms of shelf length, we have now completed over half a mile of shelving, which is past the halfway point. There is still much more work which needs doing, but we are well on schedule to get the work completed in time for the move to the new Huntingdon Library and Archives Centre in 2009.

At that point Huntingdonshire Archives will become the first local authority repository in the UK to be wholly barcoded.

An article about the methodology behind our project is available in the winter 2008 issue of the National Archives' magazine RecordKeeping - please follow the link in the right hand menu.

Similar work at Cambridgeshire Archives, based at Shire Hall in Cambrdige, has already begun.