ALES Edition of ARA: Request for articles

The ALES (Archives for Learning and Education Section)  issue of ARC will be published in June 2015. We would like to include a range of articles featuring work undertaken by  archivists throughout the country, in partnership and alone, with funding and on a minimal budget, with pre-school, schools, adults and community groups – and ideally representing work being done in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. We are particularly interested in articles about innovative projects that showcase new approaches to education work.

Please send your proposed article, with images and captions to Emma Peattie (emma.peattie@westlothian.gov.uk) and I will collate and, if necessary, select articles for this edition of ARC. We also have a ALES blog. If we receive large numbers of articles, some of these may be edited for inclusion in the blog. Content needs to be received by me by 2 March 2015 at the latest.

Articles should be between 400 and 800 words and, where possible, images should accompany the text.  As a general guide, 400 words plus an image will fill a page (c.625 words without an image to a page).

Images should have a resolution of no less than 300dpi and in TIFF or JPEG format. Any copyright questions should be  resolved so that we know we can safely reproduce the image (copyright forms can be supplied as required). All images should have a caption, source and acknowledgement.

Guidelines for articles can be found on the ARA's website at http://www.archives.org.uk/images/documents/ARC_Basic_Guidelines_revised_201108.pdf.

Kind Regards

Emma

Emma Peattie

Archivist and Records Manager (Mon-Wed)

Museums Development Officer (Wed-Fri)

Archives and Records Centre

9 Dunlop Square

Deans Industrial Estate

Livingston

EH54 8SB

01506 773772 (Mon-Wed)

01506 776347 (Wed-Fri)

emma.peattie@westlothian.gov.uk