This post by Cat Goodrick was first published on the ARA New Professionals blog site in October 2025. In the post Cat shares her experience cataloguing the archives of Girlguiding UK, bringing a collection out of long-term storage and making it available and accessible to internal and external stakeholders.

This blog, written by Rosie Vizor, was first published in September 2020 on the ARA New Professionals blog site. In the post Rosie writes about the challenges and rewards of being a new professional and a lone archivist when she joined the Garden Museum as their first full-time archivist.