The Master in Archives and Records Management (MARM) program is the first and only graduate program in the Philippines that provides students with the knowledge and skills required to work in and develop archives, special collections, record centers, and other memory and collecting institutions. Admission to the MARM program started in Academic Year 2022-2023, and we are delighted to present its first three graduates in the UPSLIS Class of 2024.
Irene Sacpa Alis-Brillo, from Kabayan and Kibungan, Benguet, is a licensed teacher and librarian currently working as Science Research Specialist II at the DOST-STII. After graduation, Irene seeks to help establish the DOST-STII Archive, as well as to hopefully start a community archive in her hometown to preserve the Kalanguya tribe’s heritage. For her MARM capstone project, she developed a collections strategy for the planned DOST-STII Archive, including the creation of appraisal and acquisition policies, workflows, contracts, templates, and descriptive metadata.
Dave Benedict F. Badiola is a JLPT N2 certified bilingual analyst, with experience in basic records management processes and policy development. His research interests include big data analysis, citation analysis, heuristics, probability, and statistics. Dave's capstone research was a bibliometric analysis of archival literature written in various languages around the world. The study determined the nature of development of archival literature around the world as contextualized through the languages used to publish literature about archives and records management, and the effect of linguistic relativity in creating knowledge silos in the formation of archival literature as limited by languages of publication. He plans to publish the interesting results of his research in the next year.
Julie Nealega is a journalist turned audiovisual (AV) archivist. She is the pioneer of and currently leads the Probe Archives. To help keep up with the race against time to preserve and make AV archives more accessible in the Philippines, Julie created an AV Archiving Starter Kit as her MARM capstone project. The starter kit provides key information to enable organizations with inaccessible magnetic tape collections to conduct proper appraisal, collection inventory, condition assessment, and preservation planning. Julie’s deep passion for archiving is driven by her belief that archives are an essential guide for navigating our past and shaping the future.
We are proud of Irene, Dave, and Julie. They truly reflect the MARM program’s objectives and its commitment to cater to the diverse needs and backgrounds of the archives profession and its stakeholder communities.
Published: 2024-07-22 10:43:15