Free Volunteering Roadshow in Dundee

Please find below details of a free training event organised by the Archives & Records Association UK & Ireland with the support of the Centre for Archive and Information Studies and the Scottish Council on Archives.

·         Working with volunteers: opportunities and challenges

·         A mix of speakers, workshops and group discussions

·         Friday 18 May 2012, Tower Building, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN

·         10.30-16.15, coffee and lunch provided

·         Two travel bursaries are available for this event for two ‘archive assistant staff with day-to-day contact with volunteers’

The full programme is below. To book a place, please email membership@archives.org.uk  with the Subject Heading: Dundee Volunteering Roadshow. Include your name, organisation, contact email and phone number. 

To apply for a travel bursary email c.z.brown@dundee.ac.uk with your contact details and a short paragraph explaining your interest in the event and the reasons you wish to apply for a bursary.

The Archives and Records Association

Supported by the

Centre for Archive and Information Studies, University of Dundee

and the Scottish Council on Archives

Volunteering Roadshow

18^th May 2012

River Rooms, Ninth Floor, Tower Building, University of Dundee

10.30-10.45         Registration and coffee and welcome

10.45-11.15         ‘Friend or Foe? Assessing the value of volunteers’, Jan Merchant, Assistant Archivist, Perth & Kinross Council Archive

11.15-11.45         'Openness, variety and choice: different paths to volunteering', Rachel Hosker, Archive Manager, Scottish Borders Council

11.45-12.15         ‘The symbiosis of volunteering: creating a mutually beneficial relationship’, Rachel Hart, Muniments Archivist and Deputy Head of Special Collections, University of St Andrews

12.15-12.30         Discussion

12.30-13.15         Lunch

13.15-14.15         Case studies

14.15-14.30         ‘Volunteering the view from the ground’, Kirsty Lee, volunteer, University of St Andrews

14.30-15.15         Creating a volunteering policy

15.15-15.30         Coffee

15.30-15.40         Useful sources of information, Caroline Brown, Deputy Archivist and Programme Leader, University of Dundee

15.40-16.15         Review of frequently asked questions and discussion