International Council on Archives

        Section for Archival Education and Training

Projects 2000-2008

Content:

ICA/SAE website
Directory of Archival Educators and Trainers
Distance Education
Training the Trainer Resource Pack
Regional Conferences for Archival Educators and Trainers
Research Agenda
Research Database

 

ICA/SAE website

Project leader: Karsten Uhde
Project team members: All members of the ICA SAE Steering Committee

The Section has had difficulty in the past in getting access to the ICA homepage and posting information on the ICA-SAE page there. However, in 2000 the Steering Committee considered it important to use a webpage as the principal means of ensuring timely communication with Section members and the wider community of archival educators and trainers.
Dr. Uhde had successfully applied for the URL: www.ica-sae.org and the website, which has been linked to the ICA homepage, is running since then. The ICA-SAE website will be used to provide:

  • Information about the Section. Information currently provided through the ICA SAE Information Sheet will be updated and presented on the website;
    • Information about projects of the current Medium Term Plan, including progress reports by project leaders;
  • ICA-SAE products, such as the Directory of Archival Educators and Trainers, the Training the Trainer Resource Pack and the Research Agenda will be published on the website (see below for details of these projects);
  • Links to websites of interest. Members will be invited to add links to their educational or training institutions. ARMA and IRMT have been informally invited to add links to the website, and will be sent a formal invitation. The ICA Training Committee has been invited to use the website for its projects and products.

 

Directory of Archival Educators and Trainers

The old directory had to be updated and expanded to include training institutions, but will no longer include curriculum details. English is the standard language for the Directory. The ICA Training Committee had accepted an invitation to work with the ICA Section for Archival Education and Training on this project.

This project was finished in 2004, but in 2009 ICA SAE began to renew it.

 

Distance Education

In response to growth in provision of open and distance learning programmes internationally, a survey of the current state of distance education for archives and records management was conducted and a report of the findings will be published. There is a need amongst educators and potential students for easily accessible information on individual programmes. Benefits for current and future providers may be gained by a global approach to many conceptual and practical issues.

 

Training the Trainer Resource Pack

This project had developed and published a pack of material that can be adapted by archives and records management trainers to teach others how to train. It will be produced in both electronic and paper formats. The electronic version was down-loadable from the ICA-SAE website and the paper version made available through the ICA’s usual channels.

After 2004 the pack was translated into other languages to make it understandable in all parts of the world.

 

Regional Conferences for Archival Educators and Trainers

Following ICA’s increasing emphasis on the developing world, a series of regional conferences was organised by Steering Committee members for educators and trainers in the field of archives and records management. This project was proposed by Margaret Crockett, who will offer support in programme development.

1. European Conference for Archival Education and Training - Marburg, Germany 2001
This was the first conference in the series. It took place in Marburgin association with the next meeting of the Steering Committee and was organized by Margaret Crockett.

Other Conferences were:

  • Australian Conference for Archival Educators and Trainers - Perth/Sydney, Australia 2002
  • South American Conference for Archival Educators and Trainers - Cordoba, Argentina 2003
  • 2. European Conference for Archival Educators and Trainers - Härnösand, Sweden 2003
  • 1. Asian and Pacific Conference for Archival Educators and Trainers - Beijing, China 2004
  • 3. European Conference for Archival Educators and Trainers - Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2005
  • 2. Asian and Pacific Conference for Archival Educators and Trainers - Tokyo, Japan 2006

 

Research Agenda

Project leader: Ann Pederson
Project team members: Anne Gilliland-Swetland and Karen Anderson
Work continues, with the aim of identifying research needs and including as many planned research projects as possible, particularly those originating outside the English-speaking world. This information will be made available on the ICA-SAE website.

 

Research Database

Project leader: Karen Anderson
Project team members: Ann Pederson
A database of archival researchers and their research projects and publications was designed during the 5th Medium Term Plan. The database shell has been implemented and is available to researchers on the World Wide Web at: http://sciswork.scis.ecu.edu.au/icasae/index.php.

 

 

URL:http://www.ica-sae.org/oldprojects.html
e-mail to Dr. Karsten Uhde, as at: 01.01.2012