Are you interested in professional Masters training for a career in archives and records management?  Would you like to find out more about the Liverpool Masters in Archives and Records Management programme?  If so, come along to our Open Day on Wednesday 27 November 2013.  You will have the opportunity to meet and talk to staff, students and former students now working in the profession to learn more about what the programme offers, what the profession involves and what we look for in potential students. There is also an optional tour of the Liverpool University Campus.

 

Places are free but must be booked in advance please email: [log in to unmask] with the subject MARM Open Day or ring 0151 794 2741.

 

Please indicate if you would also like to book a place on the campus tour.

 

PROGRAMME

 

13.00 Optional campus tour (meet in Social Space in 10 Abercromby Square)

 

History Building Social Space – 9-11 Abercromby Square

 

From 13.45        Arrive and register

 

14.00 'Thinking of applying? What you need to know' (Dr Alexandrina Buchanan, Lecturer in Archive Studies)

 

14.30 Why come to Liverpool?  Accommodation, finance and other benefits (Student Recruitment and Admissions Office)

 

14.50 Mini lecture – why Palaeography ? (Dr Charlotte Harrison, Lecturer in Archives and Records Management)

 

15.10-15.50 Tea/coffee break (History Building Social Space)

 

15.50 Archive management as a career: the role of a working archivist (Sarah Starkey, Merseyside Maritime Museum)

 

16.10 Records Management: well, it’s only filing, isn’t it? (Simon Whitby, Wirral Archives Service)

 

16.30 Before and after – pre-course experience, the job market and post-master’s research (Dr Buchanan and MARM student/s)

17.00 Questions and discussion

 

17.30 End

 

 

 

 

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Margaret Procter, BA, MArAd, PhD

Academic Lead, Archives & Records Management, School of Histories, Languages and Cultures

Director of Combined Studies,  Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

 

9 Abercromby Square

University of Liverpool

Liverpool L69 7WZ

www.liv.ac.uk/lucas

00 44 151 794 2411

 

Editor-in-chief/Rédactrice en chef Comma, International Journal on Archives

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