Tiger Bay and the World, The Heritage & Cultural Exchange is a community based organisation that aims to fully chronicle the heritage and cultural diversity of Tiger Bay and Cardiff Docklands and bring it to the world.
We are custodians of a substantial collection of historical material relating to this multi-cultural heritage, and we need volunteers to help us organise and catalogue this collection. Our aim for this collection is to make an accessible online resource that can be used by historians, researchers, and community members.
Archive volunteers
We need a number of volunteers who are willing to help us go through boxes and organise and sort out the material in it. This might involve beautiful photos sometimes, but could also be days of numbering cassette tapes! We are looking for people who are happy to work in an organised and careful way.
One of the first groups of items we are organising is the oral history tapes and transcripts. They need to be listed, numbered and connected to each other (where possible). We will then move on to other boxes and groups of items. This work involves sorting out larger amounts of material, not researching individual items.
For some groups of items we can move on to starting to catalogue them soon; see below for Cataloguing volunteers; however, there are also many boxes and groups that need sorting out first.
This will take place at Glamorgan Archives; guidance or training where necessary will be provided; as will be gloves and other material where needed. You will work with Rhian, the Community Collections Officer and other volunteers.
Cataloguing volunteers
This role can overlap with Archive volunteers. For some of the groups of items in the collection, we can make a start at cataloguing them without needing much further research.
We will provide some training for Cataloguing volunteers to talk you through our catalogue programme and database; which fields to fill out; how to formulate; how to find the right information. This role does need a basic understanding of how to work with computers, but the system is easy to use and detailed guidance is available.
In general this work will take place at Glamorgan Archives, as the material is stored there. However, if you would be interested in this work but can’t travel there, let us know.
Tags: Administration and Office Work
Contact
Rhian ThomasAddress:
Butetown Community Centre, Loudoun Square, Cardiff
Email: rhian@tigerbay.org.uk
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