This series of three webinars is intended for librarians eager to expand their collections' digital horizons. While trial and error can be a powerful learning tool, digital preservation has common practices and approaches that can provide a strong foundation for any institution. This series will explore these practices and approaches, preparing participants to: draft a cogent case for digitization, describe the challenges inherent to digital preservation, and plan an assessment for their digital preservation program. Each webinar may also be taken as a standalone.
This session will introduce basic ideas and terminology to help you feel confident in your understanding of the core concepts in digital preservation, will provide an overview of risks to the longevity of you digital collections and ways to address these risks, and will point you towards appropriate resources for additional information for continued learning.
Learn about resources available through the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC) and make sure you have the resources and connections you need to handle emergencies, small and large.
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Do you care for the treasured clothing, quilts, lace, christening gowns and even, doilies and antimacassars, in your organization? This session will address condition assessment guidelines, environmental and storage adaptations, considerations in open display of objects, and short-term prioritizing of conservation needs to help you better care for your historic collection.
Did you inherit a precious family heirloom, old photos, or documents? Become a confident caretaker of your family legacy by adapting professional techniques to your own home archive. From provenance to preservation, learn to safely preserve family photos, papers, and keepsakes and uncover new clues to your family history.
This e-Forum will initiate a profession-wide conversation to articulate the core competencies of the contemporary preservation professional.
Learn about community archiving from Densho, a grassroots organization with over 20 years of experience preserving the memory of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. This webinar will touch on the topics of oral histories, digitization and access, and the importance of strong community relationships.
This webinar will increase your understanding of what it takes to preserve commonly used digital files such photos, recordings, videos and documents as well as some of the challenges and practical tips you can use.
Libraries and archives are often asked by the communities they serve to conduct, advise on, or be the institutional home for oral history projects. The librarian or archivist is relied upon to help define an oral history project, provide background research, assemble technical resources, develop a list of interview questions, identify potential interviewees, train interviewers, create products, and house the resulting interviews. This webinar will give participants the foundation for successful oral history projects.