CROCKETT Margaret

Margaret Crockett
Archive-Skills Consultancy
UNITED KINGDOM

Margaret Crockett is a British-educated and trained archivist and records manager who has been working in the field since 1986. Her early career included working at the Bristol City Archives and the British Medical Association. Between 1994 and 1998 she worked overseas, in Washington DC as Chief of the Records Management Unit at the International Monetary Fund and later in Budapest as Deputy Executive Director at the Open Society Archives. Since early 1999 Margaret has been a consultant working on a wide range of projects encompassing the management of records during all stages of the lifecycle. These projects include: acting as consultant to the Office of the High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina; working for various NGOs in the UK, Africa and Palestine; Freedom of Information legislation implementation projects for a range of UK central and local government bodies; investigating and scoping large archive cataloguing and access projects; auditing recordkeeping systems for multi-national companies; writing a recordkeeping manual for field offices of an international organisation; and a variety of in-house and tailored training projects in the UK and overseas.
Since 1990 Margaret has been active in the planning and delivery of training in the UK and abroad. In 1999 she was Course Director at the Central European University Summer University on Archival Automation and she has led RIPA International courses on Electronic Records in London. As Director of the Archive-Skills Consultancy she is jointly responsible for a programme of training courses aimed at unqualified members of the archives and records management workforce in the UK. In the same capacity, she has designed and delivered a range of training courses in Mongolia, Estonia, Latvia and Malta.
In 1994 Margaret was nominated onto the Steering Committee of the ICA Section on Archival Education and Training, where she served as Secretary for four years. Since then she has remained on the committee to work on projects, in particular the Training the Trainer Resource Pack, of which she is principle author. Margaret is also a member of the UK Society of Archivists International Affairs Sub-Committee and a corresponding member of the Publications Committee.

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