Happy Christmas!

We'd like to wish everyone connected with ARMMS and CAIS a very happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous 2014.

Caroline's new book

We're really pleased to see Caroline's new edited volume for Facet in print. The book, Archives and Recordkeeping: Theory into practice, 'explores key [recordkeeping] literature and concepts and the role they can play in practice'. It contains fascinating contributions from a range of authors on key topics, including one by Alan on the challenge to professional ideas created by changes in technology. There's more information about the book on the publisher's website.

Congratulations to CAIS students

Graduation at CAIS. Last week was the November graduation ceremony for the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee. Twenty-four Centre for Archive and Information Studies students graduated with either a Certificate, Diploma or Masters and we'd like to send congratulations to all of them. 

This picture shows Alison Smith who graduated from the Family History Programme, and Leanne Templeton and Carol Hollywood from the Archive and Records Management programme with family members and CAIS staff on a chilly Dundee morning. We were particularly impressed that Leanne and Carol had come all the way from Canada to receive their degrees. 

Congratulations again to everyone who graduated from CAIS staff and tutors!

Archivist comes full circle

We're pleased to welcome a new member of staff to ARMMS, or, in this case, welcome back a former member of the team. Dr Jan Merchant takes up her post as Senior Archivist today, having previously been the Assistant Archivist at Perth and Kinross Council Archive. However, prior to that post Jan worked with us in various roles, latterly as Project Archivist for the Drawn Evidence project of the early 2000s.

Jan has a PhD from the University of Dundee and was one of the first students to undertake CAIS' Archives and Records Management programme by online distance learning, graduating in 2006. She is a CAIS Hon Teaching Fellow and has taught the module 'Archive Services, Access and Preservation' and supervised dissertations.

We're delighted that Jan is rejoining ARMMS after her extended sojourn in Perth and look forward to benefiting from her knowledge, experience and enthusiasm.