SCOTLAND’S ARCHIVES AND RECORDS: CELEBRATING SUCCESS
20th November 2025, Moir Dyer Room, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Deadline for papers: Monday 15th September
The Scottish Council on Archives (SCA) is pleased to invite proposals for papers for its 2025 annual conference with the broad theme of ‘Celebrating Success’. This year, we want to highlight and celebrate the achievements, innovations, and collaborations that are shaping the future of archives and records management in Scotland.
This conference is a chance to celebrate and share success stories, from recently completed cataloguing projects and innovative outreach and engagement initiatives to best-practice conservation work. We want to give the sector an opportunity to talk about their work and share ideas, reflections and lessons learned.
Whether you have led a digitisation project, fostered new community partnerships, received funding for a major cataloguing project, applied new technologies to records management or provided evidence to inform a national issue we want to hear from you.
We welcome proposals that may include (but are not limited to):
- Successful cataloguing or backlog reduction projects
- Outreach or engagement initiatives with local communities or stakeholders
- Conservation or preservation achievements
- Digitisation projects
- Record management service improvements, achievements and successes
- User-centred service improvements or access enhancements
- Celebrating archival anniversaries or organisational milestones
- Volunteer programmes
- Use of collections to celebrate your organisation or communities. This could be for anniversaries, exhibitions, workshops, etc.
- Fundraising
- Case studies on any aspect of recordkeeping
Format:
- 20-minute individual papers/presentation (in-person is preferred but a remote or pre-recorded presentation will be considered)
Submission Details:
To submit your proposal, please email Marissa Trimble at m.trimble@scottisharchives.org.uk by the deadline of Monday 15th September. Your submission (maximum five hundred words) should include:
- Presentation title and description
- Name of your organisation (if applicable)
- Your preference for presenting in person or online
Speakers will have their conference attendance fee and reasonable travel expenses covered. Please note that as a small charity, SCA is unable to offer speaker fees.
If you would like to discuss the event before submitting, please contact SCA Director, John Pelan at j.pelan@scottisharchives.org.uk.
Key Dates:
Deadline for papers: Monday 15th September
Decision made: w/b 22nd September
Programme published and bookings open: 29th September.
Additional Information:
Full details of the venue at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow will be provided shortly.
Conference talks will begin at 10:00, with registration opening at 09:30. The event will close at 16:00