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2009 Annual Meeting PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Doing More with Less: Cost-Effective and Time-Saving Approaches to Caring for Collections
Instructors: Tish Brewer & Shannon Phillips, The Center for Art Conservation (Dallas, TX)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Spring Street Historical Museum, 525 Spring Street [a short walk from the hotel]
Attendance is limited to 15.
Cost: $50
This workshop will provide archivists and librarians with useful preservation and conservation recommendations and handy tips. During this time of budget cuts and belt-tightening, many archivists and librarians are left with little or no budget for preservation- or conservation-related projects. With this in mind, we will explore do-it-yourself approaches to caring for your collections and demonstrate cost-effective and time-saving execution of minor conservation treatments and offer attendees hands-on experience with these methods.
The first part of the workshop will consist of a presentation covering collections management issues ranging from space-saving storage solutions to environmental monitoring with opportunity for addressing participants’ specific questions. The second part of the workshop will include demonstrations and hands-on lessons in humidification and flattening, making small amounts of paste, time-saving approaches to mending paper materials, and more!
Becoming a Film-Friendly Archivist
Instructors: Snowden Becker & Katie Trainor,
The Center for Home Movies
Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
LSU-Shreveport [transportation to be provided]
Attendance is limited to 30.
Cost: $75
This workshop furnishes the practicing archivist with skills to identify, assess, and preserve history caught on film. Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to:
- Perform basic identification of film materials and evaluate their condition and contents;
- Set preservation priorities for film materials and get accurate estimates for preservation work;
- Identify sources of preservation funding and discuss methods for integrating motion picture materials into access, exhibition, and outreach efforts;
- Begin thinking about film as an essential and approachable part of any archive collection, as well as the historical and cultural record archivists work to preserve;
- Regard future acquisitions of film with confidence and a positive attitude.
Implementing DACS in Integrated Content Management Systems: Using Archon™
Instructor: Christopher Prom, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tuesday & Wednesday, May 19-20, 2009, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
LSU-Shreveport [transportation to be provided]
Attendance is limited to 25.
Cost: TBD
Note: This workshop is being presented by SAA, who will handle registration through its web site. SSA members, who are not also SAA members, will receive a $25 discount on registration.
This two-day, hands-on workshop focuses on how to describe collections according to the rules of DACS, the national content standard for preparing such descriptions within the context of one integrated content management system.
Archon™ * is an open source application available for managing descriptive information about archival records and manuscript collections. The archival data elements and rules supplied by DACS are an integral component of Archon™ and provide an easy way to integrate standards-based description into a repository’s processing workflow. Practical exercises, lecture, class discussions, and demonstrations assist in learning Archon’s™ basic functions and relationships to DACS.
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For information about continuing archival education programs around the
world, visit the Archivist's Daybook,
another service of the SSA. |
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The Professional Development Committee sponsors low cost workshops on
all aspects of the archival enterprise. Recent workshops have dealt with topics as
varied as magnetic media preservation, archives security, religious archives, and EAD.
In
addition to creating its own courses, SSA’s Professional Development
Committee works with the Society of American Archivists, Amigos,
SOLINET, NEDCC, and other organizations to bring major training
sessions and nationally-known instructors to the Southwest. SSA
works to ensure that its upper-level educational offerings are
eligible for Archival Recertification Credits
(ARCs) from the Academy
of Certified Archivists.
The SSA also
sponsors The
Archivist's Daybook, a web calendar of archival continuing
education opportunities around the world.
For more information about
SSA's professional development program please contact:
Matthew Darby, CA
Chair, Professional Development Committee
Archivist
ExxonMobil Historical Collection
The Center for American History
The University of Texas at Austin
Sid Richardson Hall 2.101
1 University Station D1100
Austin, Texas 78712-0335
ph: 512.495.4691
fax: 512.495.4542
http://www.cah.utexas.edu
msdarby@mail.utexas.edu
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Do you have special skills or knowledge that you would like to
share in a workshop?
Would you like experience creating and leading a workshop?
An
important membership benefit is the opportunity to present
workshops.
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Presenting
a workshop can be an invaluable learning experience.
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It
is an excellent opportunity to organize special knowledge
you may have.
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It is an excellent way to acquire practice in public speaking, teaching, and working
with workshop participants.
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Being
a workshop instructor is also an excellent qualification to
have on your vita for hiring and promotion purposes.
If
you would like to discuss the possibility of teaching an SSA
workshop, please feel free to contact either of the chair of
our Professional Development Committee.
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