Revision Assignment

Consult special sources of information, use the material of the texts in this book, use your background knowledge and present the following (orally or in written form).

1. Give a review of archival service of Great Britain in its historical development.

2. Archival service in GB. Its structure, problems and perspectives.

3. Draw a picture of university archivist training in GB.

4. University archivist training in GB and Russia. A comparative analysis.

5. The cornerstones in the development of archives administration in GB and/or Russia.

6. Setting and achieving professional standards.

7. I and my future: the general conditions of entry into the profession.

8. The profession of an archivist in GB and Russia. A comparative analysis.

9. The Society of Russian Archivists. Its role, activities, etc.

10. Archives services, really necessary and useful to society.

11. Changing times, changing aims.

Reference material

Compulsory

1. Cook M. Changing Times, Changing Aims // Journal of the Society of Archivists. April 1997. Vol. 18, Issue 1. P. 5-13.

Additional

1. Clark R.L. Archive-Library Relations. L., 1976.

2. Cook M. Archives Administration. Toronto, 1992.

3. Cook M. The International Description Standards: An Interim Report // Journal of the Society of Archivists. Spring 1995. Vol. 16, Issue1. P. 1-15.

4. Cook M. The Management of Information from Archives. Toronto, 1986.

5. Fennelly L.J. Museum, Archive and Library Security. Boston; London: Butterworth, 1983.

6. Jenkinson H. A Manual of Archival Administration. L., 1991.

7. Managing Archives and Archival Institutions / Ed. By J.G.Bradsher. London, 1988.

8. Rhoads J.B. The Role of Archives and Records Management in National Information Systems. N.-Y., 1983.

СОДЕРЖАНИЕ

Пояснительная записка 3

Unit I

Training for first entry 4

Training course content and purpose 7

Bodley 9

Unit II

Local record office: a junior’s perceptions 11

Local record office: aims 13

City archives: the concept 17

Unit III

The role of a university: Liverpool 19

Roles for the academic base of the profession 21

Unit IV

Infrastructural standards 26

Conclusions 30

Reference material 32