Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies is pleased
to announce the launch of a new practically based,
undergraduate level distance learning programme:
Certificate/Diploma in Professional Studies: Archives &
Records Management
This is the first qualification of its kind to be offered
in Britain and will allow anyone who is currently working
in archives or records management access to university
based education and training. Based on a Certificate
programme successfully piloted at the Public Record Office
in 1997/8, and which received recognition from the Society
of Archivists, it is credit-based allowing candidates the
opportunity to access individual modules, as well as the
Certificate and Diploma awards.
Each individual module carries 15 academic credits.
Candidates who complete four core modules thereby gaining
60 credits will be awarded the Certificate, whilst those
who complete four core modules + four specialist modules,
equalling 120 credits, will be awarded the Diploma.
The four core modules are designed to cover the broad
principles of archives, records management and preservation
and to demonstrate how these may be practically applied in
the workplace:
1. Introduction to archives and records management
2. Processing records and archives
3. Reference and user services
4. Preservation management
The specialist modules enable the selection of a further
four study areas of particular relevance to the student:
5. Reading and interpretation of documents
6. Archives as an information resource
7. Advocating archives
8. Archives management
9. Records management
10. Business archives
11. Archives in Scotland
For further information, or to receive a prospectus, please
contact: Caroline Williams, Director of Studies on
[log in to unmask] Or Carol Tanner, Course co-ordinator on
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Carol Tanner
Archives & Records Management Development Co-ordinator
School of History
9 Abercromby Square
Liverpool
L69 7WZ
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 0151 794 2414
Fax: +44 0151 794 3153
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