Special Interest Groups (SIG)

Objectives

1. To encourage collaboration between school archivists on issues of common interest.

2. To promote the value of school records and archives.

3. To advocate for the protection of school records and archives, and for improved access to school archives collections.

4. To promote education and training suitable for school archivists.

5. To organise a School Archivists SIG meeting at the annual ARANZ conferences, and to encourage other activities likely to further aims (1), (2) and (3).

School Archives Workshop

The Auckland School Archives workshop has been held annually since 1990. The aim is to provide a training and networking opportunity for those working in or setting up a school archives, including state and independent schools. We have a programme that is suitable for beginners and more experienced archivists and we try to cover a basic range of useful topics from operating in the school environment, documentation and cataloguing, storage and preservation, electronic recordkeeping demands, and displays and promotion. We have speakers from within school archives and from the wider recordkeeping and conservation community. The intention is to provide training that maintains professional standards while recognising the funding and space limitations that most schools encounter. The workshop is held in a different school each year which gives the participants a chance to see a range of what is currently in action. In the last 3 years we have had Friday (preceding the workshop) afternoon visits to available archives such as church and Archives New Zealand. The workshop is usually held towards the end of term 1. School archivists from anywhere in NZ are welcome. The programme goes out by the end of term 4. The group includes about 50 schools.

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Objectives

1. To encourage collaboration between collecting archivists on issues of common interest.

2. To promote the value of collecting archives within the wider archives, records, museum, library and other organisational structures in which collecting archivists work.

3. To raise awareness of the value of private papers and the archives of non-official organisations.

4. To organise a Collecting Archives SIG meeting at the annual ARANZ conferences, and to encourage other activities likely to further aims (1), (2) and (3).

Minutes

Useful Resources

• The National Library of New Zealand’s Collections Policy

• University of Auckland - Special Collections 

• University of Otago – Hocken Library

• Victoria University of Wellington - JC Beaglehole Room

• Wellington City Council Archives

Contacts

The current convener of the Collecting Archives SIG is Simon Moody, Research Curator, Air Force Museum of New Zealand

LinkedIn

• Collecting Archives SIG Page

Objectives

1. To encourage collaboration between archivists of religious collections on issues of common interest.

2. To promote the value of religious archives.

3. To raise awareness of relevance and importance of religious archives to education, research, heritage, history, and leisure (including family history and personal research), as well as to faith.

4. To organise a Religious Archives SIG meeting at the annual ARANZ conferences, and to encourage other activities likely to further aims (1), (2) and (3).