ICA New Professionals Projects

Every year, the Active New Professionals are supported to work together to complete a group project to support and extend the aims of the New Professionals Programme. Below you will find some of the recent projects developed by them.  

• Survey: Gaps: An Analysis of the Roles, Responsibilities and Challenges of New Professionals Today – NPs 2021/22. To learn more about this project: 
  • Webinar “New Professionals: Who we are, what we do and how you can support us”, as part of the International Archives Week 2022 online programme, June 2022 
  • ICA Roma 2022 Conference Presentation - NPs 2022: Gaps: An Analysis of the Roles, Responsibilities and Challenges of New Professionals Today

• Survey: Whose Stories Do We Tell? A New Professional’s Survey on Archival Digitization Strategies – NPs 2020/21. To learn more about this project: 
  • Webinar “Whose Stories Do We Tell: A New Professionals Picnic Blanket on Digitisation Strategy” as part of the International Archives Week 2021 online programme, June 2021 
  • #ICAEKS2021 Conference Presentation - “Whose Stories Do We Tell: Viewing the Past, Present and Future through the Lens of Digitisation”, October 2021 
  • “Whose stories do we not tell, perspective from the ICA New Professionals”, Flash n°43, May 2022 
  • ICA Roma 2022 Conference presentation - Whose Stories Do We Tell?: Practical Actions Towards An Inclusive Digitisation Strategy 

• Outreach and support - Giving voice to archival new professionals – NPs 2019/20. To learn more about this project:
  • Leaflet: Running a Workshop at a Conference for First-Time Facilitators (see Downloads section at the bottom of the page) 
  • A Statement on Archives and the Black Lives Matter Movement (see Downloads section at the bottom of the page) 
  • ICA New Professionals session – Discussion on archives and records in a changing world, ICA DTAAdelaide2019 Conference, 24 October 2019 
  • Contributions to the ICA magazine Flash n°39, “User-Centered: A glimpse in tomorrow's archives”, April 2020 
  • ICA #IAW2020 webinar « ICA New Professionals Sunday Coffee (or Tea) », an hour’s discussion around the many different ways to be an archivist in 2020. 

• Study on Training Offer for Stewardship of Documentary Heritage - NPs 2018/19. To learn more about this project: 
  • ​ICA Yaoundé 2018 presentation – Continuity and Change: Reflections on current Stewardship of Documentary Heritage, 27 November 2018 
  • Contributions to the ICA magazine Flash n°37, “Yaoundé: Historic Conference in Africa”, March 2019 

• Advocacy: New Professionals Programme – NPs 2017/18. To learn more about this project: 
  • New Professionals Programme leaflet and poster (see Downloads section at the bottom of the page) 
  • Why I Joined the ICA page   
  • Contributions to the ICA magazine Flash n°35, "Archives, Citizenship and Interculturalism in Mexico City", February 2018  

• Survey: ICA New Professionals – NPs 2016/17. To learn more about this project: 
  • ICA Congress 2016 Presentation – ICA’s 2016 New Professionals Programme (NPP) Achievements and Perspectives, 8 September 2016 
  • Contributions to the ICA magazine Flash n°33, “Sustaining the Spirit of Seoul”, January 2017 
  • ICA New Professionals Survey – 2016: Final Report