Archive Pace Setters
Archives across the UK now have the opportunity to take part in an exciting scheme aimed at highlighting innovation in the sector. The Archive Pace Setter scheme is led by the Archives and Records Association, in partnership with a range of strategic bodies working with the archive sector across the UK. These include the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, The National Archives, the Scottish Council on Archives, and the Welsh Government.
Under the scheme, which will run from 2009 until April 2013, archive services will be able to showcase how they are developing new working practice within their organisations through project working. Projects that demonstrate innovative practice, backed up by effective project planning and evaluation, will have use of the prestigious Archive Pace Setter brand.
The scheme's aim to share innovative practice within the archive sector reflects a key objective of Archives for the 21st Century to achieve a 'strengthened leadership and responsive, skilled workforce'.
Archives and Records Association Archive Volunteering Award
This award replaces the inaugural ward run last year by the National Council on Archives. The award is supported by the Archives and Records Association, Cymal: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, the Museums, Libraries an Archives Council, and the Scottish Council on Archives.
The award aims to:
- celebrate volunteering in the archive sector
- recognise good practice in using volunteers in the archive sector
- recognise the contribution of volunteers to the archive sector
- show how volunteering can help contribute to building stronger communities at a local level, and support community cohesion
Eligibility
The award recognises work involving volunteers within an institutional archive service in the UK. Nominated projects have to involve volunteering in 2010/11 (although they could be part of longer-term programmes) and the evaluation must include some feedback from the volunteers involved in the project.
Criteria for assessment
Assessment for the award is made against the following areas:
- impact on volunteers
- impact on the archive service
- wider impact (for example, on community, organisation, archive sector)
Organisations are asked to complete a nomination form in English or Welsh and return to volunteeringaward@archives.gov.uk
Volunteering Award Nomination Form (DOC, 0.06Mb)
Volunteering Award Nomination Form (Welsh) (DOC, 0.07Mb)
Winner of the National Volunteering Project of the Year 2011
The winner of the National Archive Volunteering Project of the Year 2011 was the Manchester Chinese Archive Project led by partners Manchester Chinese Centre, Manchester Archives and Local Studies and the Museum of Science and Technology and supported by Heritage Lottery Funding.Volunteers conducted over 55 oral history interviews, photographed and filmed community events and catalogued photographs and documents which were donated or loaned by the community to record the story of the Chinese Community in Greater Manchester since their settlement in the early 1900s. This was designed to create the archive for the community itself and for the general public. The project was particularly commended for the sustainability of the partnerships which had been forged and the continuing work on the archive. Read more about the Manchester Chinese Archive Project and other nominations for the National Archive Volunteering Award 2011 on the Archives and Records Association website.
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