Please use the BACK option provided by your browser to return to this page. The University of Glasgow's Graduate Archive Trainee programme gives a wide variety of experience to those who wish to pursue a degree in Archives and Records Management at one of the University courses in the UK or Ireland. In addition to day to day responsibility for document delivery and searchroom invigilation, trainees will work on other projects and tasks including listing, database creation and data entry, exhibition design, records management surveying, records preservation packaging and answering written, telephone and e-mail enquiries. These are based around visits, training courses and seminars.
Further particulars are available for prospective candidates.
This intensive summer school is intended to develop skills for the understanding and interpretation of Scottish records whilst exploring archive provision in Scotland. The Society of Archivists , the professional body for archivists, records managers and conservators, has run a distance training programme for archivists since 1980, which includes a Scottish component. The Society of Archivists aims to promote the care and preservation of archives and the better administration of archive repositories. To advance, organise and co-ordinate the training of its members through short courses, lectures and seminars, whilst also encouraging relevant research and publications through the work of the Society's Council and also through its various Panels, Groups and Regions . The Society acts as well as a professional representative, submitting evidence and comments on matters of professional concern to any official body which seeks its advice or whose activities affect archives.