6. Archives & Special Collections Strategic Plan 2013-23
Policies Preservation policy Aquisition policy
Collections
information policy
Access policy
Customer Charter
Strategies
Heritage Quay design
Digital Preservation
Strategy
Digitisation Strategy
Collections
Development
Strategy
Heritage Quay design
Digital Engagement
Strategy
Interpretation strategy
Communications strategy
Plans
Conservation &
preservation action
plan
Disaster Recovery
Plan
Collections
intellectual
management
action plan
Activity plan
Support for Research
action plan
Marketing &
communications plan
Evaluation plan
Annual team plan and annual individual objectives
Procedures Procedures manual
Procedures
manual
Procedures manual Procedures manual
13. UNIVERSITY LINKS PROGRAMME
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
• Bringing more students in as archive
users
• Developing opportunities for archive
content to be used to support teaching
in classes
• Delivering skills sessions to postgraduate/research
students in beginning research/palaeography etc.
• Creating study days and moving from engaging just traditional
departments e.g. History to non-traditional, e.g. Textiles, education, etc.
The University Links programme is a
specific portion of the HLF activity plan
aimed at:
14. UNIVERSITY LINKS PROGRAMME
METHODS OF ENGAGEMENT
• Subject Group Archive Inductions
- Expansion of offer
- Networking (inside and outside HQ)
- Academic research interests
• Archives in Course Materials – Digital/In hand
- Digital materials a supplement, not a replacement
- The draw of our interactive and digital environment
- Directs the conservation and digitisation agendas.
- Importance of Collections Knowledge and course
research.
15. UNIVERSITY LINKS PROGRAMME
METHODS OF ENGAGEMENT
• Placement & Volunteering
Opportunities
- Goals of the service
- Vocational ethos and recruitment
- Benefits for students and archive
• Currently Developing – Skills Sessions & Study Days
- Joint Working – ITT Study Day, FWW Schools Day
- Hosting in order to assist other depts to fulfill their remit, e.g. SCLS
- Fulfilling the research agenda
16. UNIVERSITY LINKS PROGRAMME
CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES
• Getting into the academic planning calendar can be challenging.
• Success is often case by case basis, systems don’t exist.
• It’s often about ‘who you know’, and then ‘what they know’!
Challenges
Successes (18 months in)
2012/2013 2013/2014 2014/2015
(to date)
Introductory Talks 87 98 144
Engagement with Archive Materials 50 app. 96 158
Total Student Numbers 137 194 302
• Increasing students with an awareness of archives.
• Research students now approaching us about collections/
the HLF project.
• Reaching new depts, e.g. Textiles, Education, Architecture.
• Collections Knowledge
• Networking
• Joint Working
Key Skills