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Novice to Know-How training - an introduction to digital preservation
The National Archives is offering access to free online digital preservation training called Novice to Know-How, developed by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). With priority given to the UK archive sector and DPC member institutions. You can register for free access at Novice to Know-How. About Novice to Know-How Novice to Know-How is part of The National Archives’ digital capacity building strategy, ‘Plugged In, Powered Up.’ Researched, ...
A Model Project?
The Small Bills and Petty Finance project about the Old Poor Law, run in collaboration with the Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service, has produced a report about the integration of local collections, archival volunteers, and academic research. When the project began at Stafford back in 2016, it was hoped that the conjunction of archives staff, regular volunteers, and academic historians would enable a new sort of project, with shared parti...
Diversity training – a useful first course
AWM Trustee, Elizabeth Oxborrow Cowan shares her experience of completing diversity and inclusion training and becoming a Diversity Ally. 2020 has been a turbulent year in the long-running debate around diversity and the archives profession has had its fair share of that turbulence. Whilst the Archives and Records Association (ARA) and the National Archives are working to encourage change it is up to individual services and archive professionals ...
Recording the Pandemic in Staffordshire
Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service are working with people from across the county to create a lasting record of Covid-19. “Lockdown Memories” explores how the pandemic and lockdown measures have affected the lives of Staffordshire people. Collective Memories Over 120 people have responded to an online questionnaire with stories and testimony about their experiences; from working on frontline services, coping with self-isolation or social...
Commonwealth Connections
The Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham holds the National Athletics Archive, a sizeable collection charting the history of UK athletics throughout the 20th century. As Birmingham is the host city for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, now seems like an appropriate moment to explore some of the stories contained within this fascinating archive. The Mighty Atom In addition to organisational collections, such as the papers of the Ama...
Megabytes and maps
Archives look after a vast array or records in a variety of formats and Shropshire Archives is no different. Shropshire Archives is pleased to announce that is has now signed up to the Dorset Local Government Consortium for the provision of Preservica for its digital preservation needs. This has been a long process and the training provided by AWM, (especially Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowan), has been a significant part of the support required to perse...
Archives West Midlands Annual Review 2019–2020
We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest Annual Review. As with our previous reviews, it contains an overview of the work of Archives West Midlands and the exciting and innovative work our members have completed in the last year. The review provides an insight to the fabulous work archives across the West Midlands are doing and the importance of Friends and volunteers in achieving the successes we do. Please download the attachm...
Volunteering with Staffordshire Archives & Heritage
The volunteering programme at Staffordshire Archives and Heritage had been in place for many years but it wasn’t until May 2021 that the service had a permanent volunteer coordinator to manage the groups and projects. The first part of this role involved getting volunteers back into their building after the pandemic. Then in 2022 the service moved out of Staffordshire Record Office into a temporary location whilst the Staffordshire History Centre...
Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives (BAA)
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The National Archives
The National Archives is a non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales. They are the guardians of over 1,000 years of iconic national documents. The National Archives are expert advisers in information and records management and are a cultural, academic and heritage institution. They fulfil a leadership role for the archive sector and work to secure the future of physical and...
The Information and Records Management Society
The Information and Records Management Society (IRMS) is the foremost association for information professionals and students, supporting and bringing together all those working in information governance, records management, data protection, information security and more, across all industry sectors, in the UK and beyond. We are committed to providing our members, and the wider information profession, services and opportunities to support their co...
The Archives and Records Association
The Archives and Records Association (ARA) is the leading professional body for record keepers and the UK and Ireland. It provides training, support and network opportunities for those employed in the sector and also embraces anyone in the wider community with an interest in records and archives including users, owners and volunteers. ARA members’ first point of contact is with its National and Regional Groups. These are intended to help engage a...
Eleanor Cook
Eleanor Cook is a PhD candidate at Coventry University researching visual culture and ideas of home in post-war Coventry. As an art historian specialising in the study of home, Eleanor is interested in archives as repositories of cultural memory: alongside her PhD, she completed a UKRI policy internship with The Archive Sector Development Team at The National Archives where she worked on the development of tools to break down barriers to access a...
Managing work around EDI – the AWM Self Assessment Tool workshop
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) are vast and potentially overwhelming issues for service development. The AWM’s EDIB Self Assessment Tool (the EDIB SAT) provides a method for assessing the EDIB work of an archive service in a coherent and organised but simple approach. It has been designed specifically for archive services and can be used by any organisation, from a service with a single staff member through to national instit...
Fixed term vacancy with Warwickshire County Record Office
Having secured a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Heritage & Culture Warwickshire are looking to appoint an enthusiastic Engagement Officer to lead an exciting and innovative project working with communities across Warwickshire. The successful candidate will be supported by members of the archivist team, including the Engagement Archivist, recently the recipient of Warwickshire County Council’s Star Award for Diversity & Inclusion, ...
Opportunity to become an AWM Trustee
Archives West Midlands (AWM) is seeking to appoint a Trustee to our Board. We are an independent strategic partnership of archive services, our organisation is subscription based and we were formally launched as a Charity in June 2016. As a Trustee you will be part of the Board which sets the strategic direction and key aims for the organisation, our programme of work is ambitious and challenging and our training and support for our Members is of...
Archives West Midlands Annual Review 2022–2023
We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest Annual Review. As with our previous reviews, it contains an overview of the work of Archives West Midlands and the innovative and exceptional work our members have completed in the last year. The review provides wonderful examples of the amazing work archives across the West Midlands are doing and one clear thread is that all services have introduced new and exciting ways to engage more p...
Archives West Midlands launches its Self-Assessment Tool for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
After months of developing and piloting AWM was delighted to launch its EDIB Self-Assessment Tool at its AGM on 27th September 2023. Inspired by the DPC’s Rapid Assessment Model, the EDIB SAT provides a simple tool by which an organization can quickly assess the status of its approach to EDIB across all aspects – organizational, technical and functional – measured against a set of defined maturity levels. The SAT is designed to be applicable to a...
Wolverhampton City Archives Express & Star volunteer project
Wolverhampton City Archives are working in partnership with the Express & Star newspaper and the University of Wolverhampton. The Express & Star is a daily evening newspaper, based in Wolverhampton, which covers a wide geographical area, including the Black Country, Birmingham, and parts of Warwickshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire, as well as Staffordshire. Wolverhampton City Archives Senior Archivist, Heidi McIntosh, takes up the story. Our v...
Write blocker workshop presentation is now available to AWM members
Ever wondered what a write blocker is and how to use it? Wonder no further. Following on from a very successful AWM workshop, Archive Consultant Simon Wilson shares his experience in the workshop presentation which is now available to all AWM members. Simon covers the purpose of a write blocker and its role in digital preservation, how to obtain and use one and common tasks. If any AWM member would like a copy of the presentation including the sh...
Remote Volunteering with Warwickshire County Record Office
Since March 2020, Warwickshire County Record Office (WCRO) has offered an opportunity for anyone with a PC or laptop and an internet connection to get involved with volunteering, be that from home, their local library, community centre or even internet café. WCRO named it WOVeN for ‘Warwickshire Online Volunteer Network’ because they like to emphasise the connection of their volunteers, wherever they are in the world, through the projects they ar...
AWM Service Health Check Workshop July 2022
11 attendees representing 7 West Midlands archive services took part in this workshop, organised by Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowan, on the 5th July 2022. The event was billed as a post-Covid archive service health-check and aimed to help services identify the strengths and weaknesses facing them now and in the next 5 years. The workshop also supported unaccredited services to start the process of applying for archive accreditation, and accredited servi...
Indexing Salop Fire Office policies
For the last few years Shropshire Archives has been running a virtual volunteering project which set out to create an electronic index of all the policies issued by the Salop Fire Office between 1780 and 1889 (reference 4791/1/1). The final goal was to produce a detailed index which would be fully searchable via the online catalogue. The project was born out of the first lockdown with a view to keeping loyal volunteers connected with the Archives...
Healthy Minds and Active Bodies: cataloguing the YMCA and YHA Archives
In 2020 the Cadbury Research Library was successful in their application for funding from the Wellcome Trust to catalogue the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and Youth Hostel Association (YHA) archive collections. They were awarded £235,791 for a two-year project called ‘Healthy Minds and Active Bodies: the promotion of health and wellbeing by UK youth movement’. Both archive collections provide a fantastic body of material regarding wor...
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