Go on the B of the Bang!
Speakers: Véronique Reuter, Paul V. Dudman, Susan Barton, Jen Grasso and Reynold Leming.
Online - Thursday 19 September 2024 - 10.00am to 12.20pm
Archives and Records Association’s Section for Business Records Summer Seminar 19th September 2024 10am-12.20pm
Join us for our annual Summer Seminar on the 19th September!
The event will be split into two sections, with the first half focusing on The Olympics and Sports, with guest speakers from various archives:
International Council of Archives’ Section of Sports Archives will be telling us how they promote sports archives and as they have just finished, what will happen after the Paris 2024 Olympics and how business records are managed in France.
University of East London will be showcasing the British Olympic Association with a glimpse into what they include and how they have been involved with the Paris 2024 Olympics and Sport in Your Futures.
University of Leicester will be taking about the Special Olympics Collection, which was the result of a partnership project between De Montford University and University of Leicester.
University of Brighton Design Archive will present Olympics materials which have been taken from a variety of collections such as the ICOGRADA Archives. This includes posters from the 1970s – 2000s.
The second half will focus on Metadata with a presentation by Reynold (Ren) Leming, of Informu Solutions Ltd and Vice-Chair of External Engagement, IRMS.
About our Speakers:
Véronique Reuter (ICA Section of Sports Archives); from 2012 to 2017 she was Librarian at the French National Library, where she compiled French sports websites, focusing on the websites’ legal deposit. In 2018 and 2019, she was a documentation specialist-archivist at the French Ministry of Culture, Inter-Ministry Archive Service; she created a research guide for sports archives in France, on the website FranceArchives, in partnership with the French Ministry of Sports’ History Committee. Since 2020, she is archivist in Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France in Paris. She is secretary of the sport archives section of International council archives.
Paul V. Dudman (University of East London); has been the Archivist at the University of East London (UEL) Archives for over two decades. Paul has worked on several archival civic engagement projects exploring issues surrounding the ethical documentation of migration narratives and the role of theatre as means of performing and representing narratives as a tool for empowerment and social change. Paul is the Editor for the journal Displaced Voices: A Journal of Archives, Migration and Cultural Heritage and co-convenor of the IASFM Working Group on the History of Forced Migration and Refugees: An International Working Group for Archiving and Documentation.
Councillor Susan Barton (University of Leicester – Special Olympics Collection); is an honorary visiting research fellow at De Montfort University where the paper-based Special Olympics collection is held in Special Collections with other sports history archives.
Jen Grasso (University of Brighton Design Archive); is the Digital Content Systems Co-Ordinator at the University of Brighton Design Archives. Her role focuses on the dissemination of Design Archives collections across multiple platforms as well as handling digital preservation. Her interests lie in the intersection between analogue and digital technologies, and the use of technology to democratise culture and heritage.
Reynold (Ren) Leming (Informu Solutions Ltd and Vice-Chair of External Engagement, IRMS); is the founder and co-owner of Informu Solutions. He has been involved in documents and records management for the last 25 years. He was elected in 2020 as Chair of the UK Information and Records Management Society (IRMS).
Booking and delegate fee: Free for ARA members. Please sign up here.
Please book your place by Monday 16th September 2024
Joining instructions will be sent 24 hours before the start date.