Skill Up with ALN – Special Collections & Archives

Event Start
November 11, 2025 2:00 pm
Event End
November 11, 2025 3:00 pm
Booking closes
November 6, 2025 12:00 pm
Location
Online via Teams

Please note: the joining instructions for the event may come via the hosts for the event and will not always be available online. Please look out for the email/calendar appointment from the hosts nearer the time.

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The chairs of the ALN Special Collections & Archives will deliver the next session in the Skill Up with ALN series.

More information to follow asap.

The fifth in the Skill Up series is on Special Collections & Archives. Alex Mitchell and Fran Robinson, the co-chairs of the ALN Special Collections & Archives Group will outline what is involved in working in special collections.

Skill Up with ALN
This series is an opportunity for you to learn a bit more about different roles and areas of library life. It is a series of hour-long sessions aiming to demystify areas of the library service to give you an overview of the sort of work involved and how they fit into the wider service. They consider the types and levels of roles involved in that area of work, outlining whether people tend to be lone workers or part of a team etc. The aim is also to provide a glossary of key terms used in each area to help you understand more about any acronyms and phrases in common use. You can pick and choose which sessions you would like to attend or register for all of them – whichever you’d prefer!