With apologies for cross-posting:
Venue: The Greater Manchester Record Office, 56 Marshall Street,
New Cross, Manchester M4 5FU
14th October 2003: Our well-known Introductory Course, being held
in Manchester for the 3rd year running, is aimed at people working
with archives and records without formal recordkeeping
qualifications, and who feel that they would benefit from some
training in the principles of managing records and archives. The
course fee of £117.50 (including VAT) also includes lunch.
9.00-9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30-10.00 Introduction and First Principles
10.00-11.00 Preservation: Strategies and Guidelines
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.45 Archival Processing, Arrangement and Description:
overview & practical exercise
12.45-1.45 Lunch
1.45-2.15 Provision of Access to Archives: group brainstorm
2.15-2.30 Info-byte ~ Networking Archives
2.30-3.15 Records Management Overview
3.15-3.30 Tea
3.30-4.30 IT and Recordkeeping Workshop
4.30 Discussion and Closing remarks
For more detail and to register, please go to:
http://www.archive-skills.com/14-10.php
15 October 2003: We are teaming the introductory course with a day
course focusing on archival description. It is a more detailed
follow-up to the description session in the Basic Archive Skills
day and is aimed at people processing and describing archives who
wish to gain more practical training as well as those managing
archives who are about to embark on new processing and description
projects.The course fee is £129.25 (with VAT)
9.00-9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30-10.00 Introduction & Overview of the Day
10.00-11.00 Finding Aids: an overview of archival processing
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.15 Using Description Standards
12.15-12.45 Networking Descriptions: current trends and future
opportunities
12.45-1.00 Discussion
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.15 Workshop Session 1
3.15-3.30 Tea
3.30-4.45 Workshop Session 2
4.45-5.00 Discussion and Closing remarks
For more detail and to register, please go to
http://www.archive-skills.com/15-10.php
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