Break Into Archives Without a Master's: Australian Edition

Most archives career advice assumes you live in the United States. If you're in Australia, half of it doesn't apply to you. This edition does.

Break Into Archives Without a Master's is a working guide for career changers and recent grads who want paid archival work without spending years and thousands of dollars on postgraduate study first. The Australian Edition takes the same seven-module framework and maps it onto the field in Australia.

Inside the Australian Edition:

ASA accreditation, including the graduate diploma and undergraduate routes that aren't a master's

How to read a position description and respond to selection criteria

The Australian Series System, RecordSearch, and ISAD(G)

TAFE and recordkeeping pathways into paid entry-level work

APSJobs, state government job boards, temporary employment registers, and the ASA, RIMPA, and ALIA networks

The ATSILIRN Protocols for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collections

Three free courses: the DPC's Novice to Know-How, NEDCC's Preservation 101, and C2C Care

A skills self-assessment, a 30-day self-teaching plan, and experience and application trackers

Writing prompts that become your resume, selection criteria responses, and interview answers

An Australian reading list, glossary, and resource library

Format: Word document (.docx), 31 pages. Fill it in on your computer or print it.

Course names, fees, and programs change, so the workbook reminds you to check the details at the source.

By Mary Snyder, consulting archivist and founder of Snyder Archives & Research. For personal use only.