The Emergency Preparedness and Response Online Course will meet every Thursday in October 2020 from 10:00am-11:30am, Central Time. The Online Course is FREE to attend, but interested individuals must complete an application for registration. Registration is only open to staff, volunteers and board members of museums, historical societies, historic sites, …
The Oklahoma Archivists Association would like to take this opportunity to make a public statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and to condemn racism and violence. We support and stand with the protestors and their families who are speaking out to government officials and law enforcement agencies. …
REopening Archives, Libraries and Museums (REALM) is a research partnership between OCLC, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Battelle to create and distribute science-based information and recommended practices designed to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 to staff and visitors who are engaging in the delivery or use of …
Lucidea is hosting a free webinar, “Improving Archival Work Through Collections Management Systems”, presented by archives leader, author, and consultant Margot Note. Margot will cover such topics as: Why Use a CMS? Deciding that Change is Necessary Better Ways of Working Happier People Making the Business Case for a CMS …
NEW Preservation Training WEBINARS – July through December 2020 Led by NEDCC’s Preservation Specialists, Conservators, and Digital Imaging and Audio Preservation Professionals ONE- OR TWO-HOUR LIVE WEBINARS on a wide range of topics, including: Disaster Planning for Extended Closures Assessing and Improving Collections Security Understanding Archival Storage Materials Intro to …
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 …
