ARA,I Training Events
April 2025
Workshop on caring for archival collections
Date: 3 April 2025
Time: 15:00 - 17:00
Location: National Archives of Ireland, Dublin
This practical workshop will focus on the main causes of damage for paper archive collections, how to assess condition and determine appropriate interventions. It will offer practical ways to improve their condition and housing, as well as guidance on handling. The workshop will bring together existing collections care information, advice and resources to help promote better collections care decisions and long-term storage solutions for archives.
The workshop will be presented by Jessica Baldwin, a Senior Conservator at the NAI. It will be interactive, with participants encourage to ask questions or discuss case studies from your own institutuion. The day will include a unique opportunity to take a tour of the NAI's Conservation department, meet the conservators and learn about their work.
Please register here
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ARA, Ireland's AGM 2025 will take place in person, following the training event and is free for all to attend. There will be an opportunity to network informally with other ARA members before and after the AGM.
Registration is sepearate and will be sent by email to all ARA Ireland members.
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November 2024
Exploring Archival Cataloguing
Date: 21 November 2024
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Location: Dublin City Library and Archive
PROGRAMME:
2:00 Finding the Keys to the Marian Keyes Collection, Della Keating, National Library of Ireland
2.20 My Goodness, My Guinness Catalogue, Leanne Harrington, Digital Archivist and Rebecca Casey, Cataloguing Archivist, Guinness Archive
2.40 Getting down to the ATOM of a Collection Maeve Gebruers, Irish Traditional Music Archive
3:00 Q&A Session
3.30 Tea & Coffee
4:00 Lots of Help on Hand: Practical Cataloguing Session using the Irish Archives Resource
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April 2024
Copyright in Context: Ireland
Date: 11 April 2024
Time: 11:00 - 15:30
Location: National Library of Ireland, Dublin
ARA, Ireland are pleased to offer a one-day in person training workshop that will outline copyright in context for the two legal jurisdictions on the island of Ireland. The focus will be on Irish Law with comparison of key differences to UK Law as it applies in Northern Ireland for those who may work cross border. It will also highlight any key differences between Irish law and other UK and international jurisdictions. Using practical case studies this training event will address copyright issues as they apply to digitisation and social media. It will also explore the subject of third party copyright.
The training will comprise of three sessions, at approximately 45 minute duration each. Opportunity will be afforded to allow round-table discussions and ask questions.
The workshops will be delivered by Dr Ellie Pridgeon, director of Consultant Archivist, an organisation that specialises in providing advice and support to the heritage and records management sector. Group discussions will be facilitated by ARA Ireland, to provide attendees with an opportunity to informally discuss copyright issues after each session with their group peers. Groups will shortlist questions for the Q&A at the end of the workshop.
Attendance Fee
ARA Members: 100 EUR
Non-ARA Members: 120 EUR
Please register here.
We regret that the workshop venue is not accessible to wheelchair users. ARA Ireland apologises for this, and is working hard to ensure all future events are fully acessible.
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ARA, Ireland's AGM 2024 will take place in person, following the training event and is free for all to attend. There will be an opportunity to network informally with other ARA members before and after the AGM.
Registration is sepearate and will be sent by email to all ARA Ireland members.
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October 2023
Digital Preservation and Electronic Record Keeping: Collaboration and Conversation'.
Date: 19 October 2023
Time: 10:30 - 17:00
Location: Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin.
The Archives and Records Association (Ireland) and the Information and Records Management Society, Ireland are pleased to invite you to their annual joint meeting which will be held in person at the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin. The event brings together archivists and records managers to discuss their perspectives on important topics. It will provide a platform for the discussion of issues in the field today as well as a valuable learning opportunity.
The focus for this year is around digital preservation and electronic record keeping with an emphasis on practical steps and collaboration. We are delighted to be joined by speakers that demonstrate active collaboration in their diverse areas. We hope you can join us in conversation. The seminar is sponsored by Oyster IMS.
(See Presentation Page for Slides for this event.)
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November 2021
Risk Management: Strategic Approaches
Date: Thursday, 18th November 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:00 (GMT)
Platform: Zoom
Risk management in archives encompasses many aspects of our daily work as archivists. It poses us with the question of how we can better plan, prepare, and manage risks with a clear and strategic approach.
ARA , Ireland is pleased to present an opportunity to hear from two archival practitioners about their strategies and approaches to risk management. These presentations will be followed by a question and answer session to allow members an opportunity to learn how these approaches might be applied within their own archive setting.
Hazel Menton from the National Archives of Ireland will look at the common risks which archivists encounter and examine ways which these can be addressed.
Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowan Consultant Archivist will provide an introduction and overview of the Archives and Records Association Resilience Indicator tool.
For more information and to register, please click here.
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May 2021
Archives and Social Justice seminar series
ARA Ireland and UCD School of History joint event
A seminar series consisting of three sessions over three consecutive weeks was held in May 2021, covering the topics of Archival Sovereignty, Archives and Impact and Archives and Activism. Details of the individual speakers and discussions, along with slides, where appropriate, can be found on here.
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January 2021
Kickstarting Your Career: A New Professionals Training Seminar
Date: Thursday, 21 January 2021
Time: 09:45 - 12:30
Platform: Zoom
Carly Randall from the V&A Archives and Registry will be talking about potential approaches records professionals could take when deciding how to adapt to the effects of the pandemic on their career development. Deirdre McParland from ESB Archives will be sharing her experiences of life as a business archivist and exploring the necessary skillsets and vital role of advocacy and stakeholder engagement in the archives profession. Cécile Gordon from the Military Archives of Ireland will be discussing aspects of archival project management, while drawing on her experiences of managing the Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection/Project since 2008. Kieran O'Leary from the National Library of Ireland will be talking about his career in digital preservation and providing advice about how to progress in this field.
We will also be facilitating an optional networking coffee break in between sessions, which will give you the chance to get to know some of the other attendees at the event.
For more information and to reserve your tickets, please follow the link below:
Kickstarting Your Career: A New Professionals Training Seminar
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November 2020
Archives Online: New Approaches To Access
Date: Thursday, 19 November 2020
Time: 14:55– 16:30
Platform: Zoom
Providing online access to digitised archival collections is fast becoming an integral part of the work of any collecting institution, but it can also pose a number of challenges for archivists in terms of resources, skills and balancing shifting priorities. This seminar will provide the opportunity to hear from four archival practitioners about some of their strategies and approaches to publishing archival material to online platforms. The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion to explore a bit further aspects such as funding, planning and project management, and technology and collaboration.
Niamh Brennan from Donegal County Council Archives will be providing insight into the archives' strategies for digitisation and access.
Jonny Dillon from the National Folklore Collection will outline www.Dúchas.ie, a collaborative project between the National Folklore Collection, UCD and Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU to digitise the manuscript, photographic and audio materials of the National Folklore Collection.
Ellen Murphy from the Registry of Deeds will talk about a collaborative digital project with National Records Scotland and Trinity College Dublin to explore new ways of providing online access to property records.
Liam Wylie from RTÉ Archives will discuss approaches to publishing content from RTÉ's expansive audio-visual collections.
For further details and to reserve your place please visit the link below:
Online Access To Archives - ARA Ireland Training Event
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August 2020
The Archives and Records Association, Ireland (ARA,I) is delighted to present the second of its summer training seminars focused on digital and technical skills.
Online Training: Digital Curation and Digital Preservation
Date: Wednesday, 12 August 2020
Time: 10:55– 12:30
Platform: Zoom
This 90-minute online session will feature two presentations on digital curation and digital preservation from Peter Clarke, Digital Services Programmer in Research Services at UCD Library, and Rachel MacGregor, Digital Preservation Officer at the Modern Records Centre in the University of Warwick.
Peter Clarke's talk will focus on digital curation and technical infrastructure and Rachel MacGregor will be looking at open source software for digital preservation, in particular Archivematica, BitCurator and DROID.
For further details and to reserve your place please visit the link below:
Online Training: Data Curation and Digital Preservation
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JULY 2020
The Archives and Records Association, Ireland (ARA,I) is pleased to present the first in a series of two summer training seminars focused on digital and technical skills.
Online Training: AtoM Cataloguing Software and Open Refine
Date: Thursday, 23 July 2020
Time: 14:45– 16:30
Platform: Zoom
This 90-minute online session will feature two presentations on tools and software for documenting archival collections and processing metadata.
Lisa Shortall from Offaly Archives and Damien Burke from the Irish Jesuit Archives will give a joint presentation on their experiences with AtoM. AtoM (Access to Memory) is a web-based, open source application for standards-based archival description and access in a multilingual, multi-repository environment. Lisa will focus on AtoM's main features and how it is used by Offaly Archives as a multi-repository searchable interface. Damien will focus on the transference of legacy finding aids to AtoM and the creation of authority records.
Graham Jevon from the Endangered Archives Programme will be presenting on his use of Open Refine to create uniformity in metadata collected from disparate sources. The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) facilitates the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. The EAP website then provides access to these digital collections for research, education and enjoyment.
For further details and to reserve your place please visit the link below:
Online Training Seminar: AtoM Cataloguing Software and Open Refine
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June 2020: Training Updates related to Covid 19
ARA, Ireland training is moving online.
Training Priorities for 2021
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For presentation slides of previous events, please check the "Presentation Slides" page in the drop down menu.