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Accredited courses


New Manchester MA sets sights on accreditation


The world-class resources and expertise may always have been there, but the collaboration of senior librarians and researchers was needed to establish a course that will expose students to the skills of librarians and archivists in the context of cultural organisations. Later this year it expects to become the latest CILIP-accredited course.


A NEW MA in Library and Archive Studies will start this autumn at the University of Manchester and it is seek- ing CILIP accreditation.


The course will leverage its connections with University of Manchester Library (UML) one of five in the UK with Nation- al Research Library status. This includes the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, with its world leading collection of archives and rare books and cutting-edge digital practices.


Dr Benjamin Wiggins, Senior Lecturer of History and Library & Archive Studies, who will lead the course, said that foundations for the course had been put in place by Chris Pressler, John Rylands University Librarian and Director of The University of Manches- ter Library, and Hannah Barker, Director of the John Rylands Research Institute: “They got together and decided that this would be an interesting, useful and maybe even overdue programme.”


Due diligence and market research showed more than enough support for a course which would “integrate both librarianship and archival practice together and set in the context of cultural organisations”. The MA includes core courses in librarian- ship and archive studies with optional work placements in a variety of library and collec- tions-based fields and linked dissertations. In addition, students are offered a choice of optional courses in a variety of specialist topics linked to digital practices, archives


April-May 2023


Dr Benjamin Wiggins.


management, rare books curation, con- servation, exhibition design and the social and inter-community impact of research libraries. There are also a variety of other units on offer related to the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.


The course, which aims to reach about 50 students in its third year, needs to be run- ning to be accredited. Benjamin said “We’ve tried to build in every measure we could to make sure it’s a smooth process. There are already students enlisted for the first year,” and added that “the first cohort will proba- bly be smaller than future ones, but it will benefit from a full compliment of teaching staff.”


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