To date, the Archival Workers Emergency Fund has supported 112 archival workers in need! Thank you to the AWEF Review Committee for their diligent work each week to get these fund dispersed! And thank you to our many generous donors for making this possible. We continue to receive new applications each day, and …
The Society of Southwest Archivists Professional Development Committee is pleased to announce “Dealing with Copyright? Ask Copyright Experts!” will be held on Friday, May 29, 2020 at 9:00-10:30 am CST. This is a Q&A session, open to any attendees dealing with copyright issues within their cultural institutions. Two copyright experts, …
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has announced that they will be going virtual for the 2020 Joint Annual Meeting. They have negotiated an agreement with the Hilton Chicago to cancel the 2020 in-person conference and to meet in Chicago in August 2024 instead. They are considering concerns about slashed …
We invite you to learn more about History Hub, the pioneering crowdsourced history and genealogy research community sponsored by the National Archives. Free and open to anyone, the platform enables users to ask questions and get answers from multiple sources including National Archives staff, other agencies, archives, libraries, museums, and …
On behalf of the 2020 Research Forum Program Committee, we invite you to submit abstracts (of 250 words or fewer) for either 10-minute platform presentations or poster presentations. Topics may address research on, or innovations in, any aspect of archives practice or records management in government, corporate, academic, scientific, or …
Greetings to everyone! We are excited to invite you to visit the new Carl Albert Center’s COVID-19/Coronavirus Digital Collection. This digital project was created to act as a resource for the general public, students, researchers, staff, and faculty when investigating/analyzing this historic time in Oklahoma. By focusing on Cleveland County, …
Catch up on your #preservationtraining while you #StayAtHome. NEDCC is offering its “Caring For” on-demand webinar recordings series at 50% off until May 8. Also new free webinar recordings available. https://nedcc.org/newsletters/ondemand2020
On April 2, 2020 Connecting to Collections Care held a Facebook Book Live Event “Collections Care in the Age of COVID-19”. The audience had the chance to listen to and ask questions from panelists including preservation librarians, conservators, and other experts in the field of collections care on such subjects …
The Society of American Archivists Foundation announces the creation of the Archival Workers Emergency Fund (AWEF) to support archival workers experiencing financial hardship during the COVID-19 crisis. Grants of up to $1,000 will be awarded to financially vulnerable and at-risk workers. All U.S.-based archival workers affected by the COVID-19 crisis …
The National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrations (NAGARA) is celebrating Records and Information Management Month by offering FREE access to a different webinar from the NAGARA Archives each weekday, no member or registration fee required! To learn more, visit their Facebook page here.
