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, Section on Archival Education and Training (SAE).

What do you expect from CITRA 2009?

It is a very exciting opportunity to get a much broader voice of education and training issues. Usually education is just a stream within a bigger conference, now we actually have about 50 sessions dedicated to education and training. It gives us a chance to share diverse issues; learn about the different approaches; and addressing the issues cross boundaries.

What are your hopes for the future with regard to archival education?

I hope that the archival education continues to be relevant, adaptive and inclusive. Also that archival education continuously steps outside accepted conventions.

How do you see the role of SAE addressing the challenges of future archival education?

The SAE can identify approaches on how to address the challenges of archival education. Also through the SAE projects, i.e., research databases, on-line directory of archival schools, translation of “train the trainer” resources and the digital recordkeeping curriculum resources. It is very important for SAE to partner with SPA in these education and training endeavors. Also SAE needs to collaborate with other archival education networks and professional associations such as IFLA and records management associations.

Marian will be presenting a paper on mentoring on Thursday. It will be an exciting session whereby four presenters will look at mentoring from different perspectives and how it can be integrated into archival education.