Martin Hampton, member of the Friends of the National Archives of Malta

Can you introduce your organization ?
The Friends of the National Archives of Malta is a voluntary, non-governmental organization, created in 2000. Our aim is to support the National Archives and to raise public awareness of the importance of preserving documents.
What does your organization do?
The support we can give to the National Archives falls into two categories

We [...]

IRMT : an approach to building excellence in Electronic Records Management in English-speaking Africa

Doctor Anne Thurston established the International Records Management Trust in 1989 to  develop and share solutions internationally through research and development, capacity building and consultancy services.
During the late nineties, in cooperation with ICA, IRMT developed a resources pack including courses, training materials, and a procedure manual to help building competencies in Electronic Records Management. These [...]

Tour of Mdina and Rabat

On Wednesday night CITRA 2009 participants had the pleasure of touring the historical city centers of Mdina and Rabat, culminating in a reception thrown by the Friends of the National Archives at the lovely Santo Spirito hospital, converted into the National Archives in the 1970s.  We wandered through the serpentine streets of Mdina, admired the [...]

Archival education for the 21th century

Want to learn about the young professional’s ideas for archival education? Come and attend our session this afternoon and engage with three young professionals in discussion about the possibilities for future archival education. We look forward seeing you there!!

Interview with Marian Hoy, Secretary, Section on Archival Education and Training (SAE)

Marian Hoy is a busy bee. She is the professional development and education officer at the Records Management Association of Australasia (RMAA). She is also undertaking her PhD at the University of Canberra on early professional learning in collecting institutions such as museums, archives and libraries. And lastly but not least she is the Secretary, [...]

A word from the Information Marketplace: APEnet

The Flying Reporters spoke to Wim van Dongen of the National Archives in the Netherlands. Mr. van Dongen is here with Peder Andren and Susanne Danelius (National Archives of Sweden) to present the Archives Portal Europe, also called the APEnet. APEnet is a project supported by the European Commission in the eContentplus programme. Its objective [...]

Educating and training archivists in Southern countries

Jean-Wilfrid Bertrand, National Archivist of Haiti presented an analysis and perspectives on archival education and training in African, South American, and Asian countries, which could also hold true in some countries of Eastern Europe.
There is great diversity between these countries, but also some constants regarding archives and records keeping : insufficient or underdeveloped legal frameworks ; public policies [...]