Educational activity of archives in archival training at the Nicolaus Copernicus University

Abstract

The article comprises two parts. The first one pays attention to educational function of archives and professional profile of a person, who would conduct such activity, which is an archival educator. It is shown that professional competences of the archival educator were determined in the paper of Archival Education Section of the Society of Polish Archivists, published in 2010, entitled “The model of professional competences of archivists and records managers”, in its part concerning the professional level in promotion, education and archival information. The second part of the article describes training of archivists at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in the scope of content and skills connected with promotional, cultural and educational activity of archives in the past, the present and the future.

Keywords

• edukacja archiwalna
• uniwersyteckie kształcenie archiwistów
• toruński ośrodek kształcenia archiwistów
• funkcja edukacyjna archiwów
• działalność edukacyjna archiwów
• edukator archiwalny