The Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) has published Volunteering in Archives 2014 by Caroline Williams, following a survey of volunteers in archives and records management services across the UK and Ireland.
The survey sought to add to existing knowledge about the volunteer experience in archives and records management services across the UK and Ireland, building on previous surveys. 438 responses were received to 15 questions relating to volunteer profile, types of volunteering, motivations and benefits gained from volunteering.
Volunteering in Archives 2014 adds to a number of pieces of research undertaken by the ARA and its predecessor bodies: in 2009 the National Council on Archives published Volunteering in Archives, the first research to seek the views of volunteers themselves in identifying motivations and benefits. In January 2014, the ARA published Managing Volunteering in Archives by Caroline Williams. This looked at the topic from the perspective of those running archive services and managing volunteers.
‘Volunteering in Archives 2014 acts both as a complement to Managing Volunteering in Archives of 2014 and a successor to Volunteering in Archives of 2009’, says Louise Ray, who convenes the ARA’s sub-committee on Volunteering. ‘As well as providing data on this important part of the sector’s work, the growing body of ARA research on Volunteering underpins and guides the work of the Volunteering sub-committee’.
Read a summary of the findings and conclusions - and the full Report - at
http://www.archives.org.uk/ara-in-action/news/570-ara-publishes-volunteering-in-archives-2014.html
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