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Hear from some of our recent volunteers Maureen, Caroline and Sue
Find out about what the volunteers have been working on and what they enjoy about volunteering with us.
Research room temporarily closed on Mondays
Whilst we have a vacancy in the team, we regret that the research room will be closed on Mondays during May, June and July.
We will remain open on Tuesdays 0930-1700 – except first Tuesday of the month 1300-1930
and on the third Saturday of the month 0930-1300.
Our enquiry and other services will run as normal.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
We’re recruiting!
Come and join our multi-award-winning team
Library Assistant (Archives)
Job referenceR2370
Application closing date 30/05/2016
Salary Grade 4 (£9,414 – £10,587 p.a.)
Job category/type Administrative and support
Job description
Permanent, 18.5 hours per week
We are seeking an experienced assistant to work in the University Archives in its award-winning facility Heritage Quay.
Duties will include day-to-day care of the collections, accessioning and listing collections in Calm (Archives Management software), supervising the reading room and answering enquiries. The post is for two and half days per week to include Mondays and Tuesdays with occasional evening and weekend work (one evening every other month and one Saturday morning every other month).
You should have 2 A Levels, at least 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above, including Maths and English (or equivalent qualifications) and a basic computing qualification such as CLAIT or ECDL. An appropriate Library Assistant Certificate, or equivalent, would be desirable.
Informal enquiries are welcome to Lindsay Ince (Assistant Archivist and Records Manager) on (01484) 473168.
If you are currently registered as a full-time student at the University please note that you may only apply for part-time jobs of 15 hours or less per week.
For more information, please download the recruitment pack.
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Heritage Quay shortlisted for Outstanding Library Team at the Times Higher Education Awards 2016
The team was shortlisted for our work in opening Heritage Quay.
Our colleagues in Registry have been shortlisted in the ‘Outstanding Departmental Administration Team’ category for their work in revitalising PGR (postgraduate research) administrative and regulatory processes.
The award ceremony is on Thursday 23rd June. We’ll keep you posted!
Heritage Quay wins 2016 Guardian University Award
Heritage Quay wins 2016 Guardian University Award
The University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Tim Thornton, and Archivist and Records Manager Sarah Wickham collect the University’s award from the evening’s celebrity compere, Paul Sinha
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:03:00 GMT
The University’s archive centre collected first prize in the Buildings that Inspire category
THE University of Huddersfield is a winner in the 2016 Guardian University Awards for its innovative new archive centre.
Heritage Quay took the honours in the Buildings that Inspire category. The award comes just weeks after the centre received its Archive Service Accreditation.
The University’s official archive is an inter-disciplinary space where people from both within and outside the University community can engage with historic collections. These cover a variety of areas including music, the arts and sport, and date from the sixteenth century to the present.
Through its widening participation programme, Heritage Quay has been extremely successful in engaging the community across Yorkshire and the rest of the country. Visitors have ranged from the under 5s, to the over 90s, to public events such as the Roots of Rugby League adult learning course, the Listening Room music club, Conducting for Beginners and theatre from one of the UK’s most prolific touring theatre companies, Mikron. This work was commended in the Royal Historical Society’s inaugural Public History Prize.
Heritage Quay was applauded by Guardian University Awards for the way the building is used by students and staff as a social space as well as for the opportunities it provides for teaching and research. Also noted were the regular student work placements and the unusual variety of events hosted by academics.
Archive Service Accreditation
This award has also come immediately after the archive service received its Archive Service Accreditation.
The recognition is the UK standard for archive services and defines good practice and identifies agreed standards within the archive sector. This UK-wide quality standard offers a benchmark for gauging performance and recognising achievements and is awarded by the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee.
To achieve the accreditation, Heritage Quay had to show the panel that it provided a high-level of service to its users, preserve their collections in line with national standards and are a robust, sustainable service which plans to deliver ongoing improvement.
The Accreditation Panel cited ‘the recent years of hugely impressive development to this archive service, and the overall uplifting and positive impression of the service in this application’. It also noted that ‘outputs of recent years included a very sound policy basis for the service to develop in future, in addition to the significant achievements supported by a major grant award’.
Becoming accredited has been a considerable achievement by all of the staff working in Heritage Quay said the University’s Archivist and Records Manager Sarah Wickham. “Archive Service Accreditation recognises the high-quality work we do,” she said. “We are a relatively new team so to achieve this endorsement in such a short space of time is absolutely fantastic.”
Heritage Quay was opened in 2014 by Gary Verity, Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Yorkshire and the Humber, after the University was awarded almost £1.6 million from the HLF to develop a new archives centre. It is now regarded one of the most technologically-advanced archives in the UK and, featuring a high-tec Exploration Space, enabling visitors to sample archival material via touch screens and gesture technology.
The accreditation is much sought and brings Heritage Quay alongside other accredited archives including The National Archives, the National Library of Wales and the London Metropolitan Archives.
Story originally published at http://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2016/march/heritagequaywins2016guardianuniversityaward.php