Archives at Home

Updated: June 4, 2020

This page lists upcoming continuing education/professional development opportunities for archivists presented online during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Many are free; some available at a discounted rate.  If you know of an upcoming online event/opportunity for archivist, please email me at clevelandarchivists AT gmail DOT com, and I will add it to the list.  Stay healthy, everyone.

Jane Rothstein, CAR Communications Chair

 

Ongoing: SAA’s Accessibility and Disability Section Archivists at Home Document

Dear Colleagues,

The Accessibility and Disability section steering committee is pleased to announce the launch of a blog for the section! We aim for the blog to be a community resource where you can discover links to information on accessibility and disability in archives, and to serve as an informal space to share your stories and allyship tips on your experiences with professional colleagues. 

The first posts include a COVID-19 resources page, featuring helpful links for staying safe and managing mental health, as well as links to the Archivists at Home document, an international effort to organize options for navigating institutional closures and managing staff. The post also includes information on the Archives Workers Emergency Fund (AWEF), a support and mutual aid effort to assist contingent archives workers affected by COVID-19.

As an introduction to our Advocacy series, Head of Special Collections at University of Missouri-Kansas City and AD section steering committee member Lindy Smith writes about initiating accessibility changes in conjunction with the SAA Guidelines on Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities. This and other categories will be updated regularly, and will be open to member feedback, participation, and contributions.

In solidarity,

The AD section steering committee

 

Ongoing: SAA’s Pandemic Response Resources

The SAA Council has created this page to provide links to tools for managerial advocacy, support for displaced archives workers, and other resources to help the archives community navigate this global health crisis.

SAA members are invited to submit additional ideas for resources to saahq@archivists.org.

 

Ongoing: Free Creating Family Archives Webcasts

Margot Note, archives consultant and author of the recent SAA book, Creating Family Archives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Saving Your Memories for Future Generations (2019), is offering free weekly webcasts on Creating Family Archives While Social Distancing.  This webinar is geared primarily to non-archivists, but archivists will also learn a thing or two.  To register and for more information, check out Margot Note’s website: https://www.margotnote.com/creatingfamilyarchives.

 

Ongoing: Heritage Emergency National Task Force COVID-19 Resource Hub

The Heritage Emergency National Task Force has launched its COVID-19 Resource Hub. This web portal leads to an array of resources that can help you and your constituents respond to and recover from the pandemic. Resources have been grouped under the following categories:

  • Federal and Global Guidance
  • Dashboards for Situational Awareness
  • Guidance on Funding Your Organization’s Recovery
  • Funder Support of the Heritage Community
  • Collections Care During a Pandemic
  • Resources for Museums
  • Resources for Archives
  • Resources for Libraries
  • Resources for Artists and Arts Organizations
  • Resources for Historic Properties, Sites, and Organizations
  • Resources for Indian Country
  • Resources for Emergency Managers
  • Resources for Extension Educators
  • Preparing for the Next Pandemic

Bookmark this page, which will be updated frequently as new information is made available: culturalrescue.si.edu/hentf/major-disasters/…

Stay healthy. Stay safe.

– Heritage Emergency National Task Force

 

Ongoing: American Institute for Conservation (AIC) Resource Pages, Conservation and Working From Home

The AIC’s Book and Paper Group (BPG) and Electronic Media Group (EMG) has produced a shared Google sheet that gathers resources and ideas to support our community’s remote work and research related to book and paper conservation during COVID-19 quarantines.

A continual work-in-progress (we’re doing this on the fly!), the information is organized within a GoogleSheets spreadsheet into tabs as listed below. It is not intended to replace any of our other knowledge gathering efforts like the Wiki but is intended to serve as a warehouse for the links and ideas that are being shared within our communities.

Click here for more information, to use and contribute.

Ongoing: Ohio Museums Association’s List of Ohio Museums with Virtual Programming, Education Activities, Tours and Events

In response to COVID-19, many museums across Ohio are offering virtual programming through online education activities, tours and live-stream events that can be enjoyed outside of museum walls. See below for a list of Ohio museums with online programs available.

Be sure to check in with your favorite museums’ social media channels as well to get all the latest info, updates and fun posts!

Click here for the list.

 

Ongoing: Ohio History Connection’s Local History Helps: COVID-19 Resources

Webinars and other resources for local history organizations responding to the pandemic.  Click here for the list.

 

On Demand: Free SAA Webinars:

 

On Demand: Webinars from Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)

NEDCC has on-demand recordings of several of their past webinars, many of them free, including Writing Your Preservation Assistance Grant, How to Host a Community Scanning Day, and Personal Digital Archiving.

Their “Caring for” webinars, on preservation for different types of materials, are offered for 50% off through May 8.

Click here for more information and to register for these webinars.

 

On Demand: Free, Presentations from Lighting the Way: A National Forum on Archival Discovery and Delivery

Lighting the Way is a year-long project led by Stanford University Libraries, running from September 2019-August 2020, focused on convening a series of meetings focused on improving discovery and delivery for archives and special collections. Through two meetings in the first half of 2020, the project will engage stakeholders and experts including archives, library, and technology workers. The meetings are intended to build consensus around strategic and technical directions to improve user experience, access, and interoperability across user-facing discovery and delivery systems for archives, and to provide a model for values-driven technology work within archives and special collections.

The presentations and recorded question-and-answer sessions from the February 2020 meeting are now available for free streaming or downloading.  Click here for more information.

 

On Demand: ASERL Free Webinar, Not Just a Number: Negotiating Salary in Academic Archives and Special Collections

The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries’ recent webinar on salary negotiations is now available to view on Vimeo and the speaker’s slides are available to download on the ASERL website.

 

On Demand: LYRASIS Learning Library of Recorded Classes Extended Through May 31

As all of our communities are working to respond to the COVID-19 situation, LYRASIS wants to help by offering our members the following services, free of charge:

  • Want to use this time to upskill your team? We are opening LYRASIS Learning to members and non-member institutions alike for 30 days, now extended through May 31st.  Members will have access to all live AND recorded classes at no charge during this time.  Non-member institutions will have access to our vast library of recorded classes. Email es@lyrasis.org to register your institution.

 

On Demand: American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Conversations Webinar Series

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis in our local communities, country, and world. Many are seeking answers and guidance during this time, and AASLH has been listening to the concerns from the history community. In response, we are developing more online content for our colleagues working from home. While no one has all the answers, we hope these topic-focused webinars will provide a space for history practitioners to share ideas and learn from each other collectively to help us all keep moving forward. We know many organizations are facing financial strain due to the pandemic, so we are developing this new AASLH Conversations webinar series with that in mind. We have drastically reduced the registration fee and are also providing a special promo code to waive the registration fee completely. Recognizing that this is a time of crisis that affects the whole field, AASLH included, we appreciate anyone who is still able to contribute to AASLH’s efforts either through the reduced registration fee or a donation.

Click here for a list of recorded webinars (at the bottom).

 

On Demand: Rachel Woody’s Free Webinar, Strategies for How to Capture and Communicate the Value of Collection Work

This webinar is now available on YouTube (https://youtu.be/UYgXj_XWma0).  Slides, a summary of the Q&A, and more information are available at Rachel’s website, https://rachaelcristine.com/2020/05/12/strategies-for-how-to-capture-and-communicate-the-value-of-collection-work/.

 

 

Thursday, June 4, 2pm: LYRASIS Webinar on Creating and Preserving Oral Histories

Popularity of oral histories has been increasing since the mid 20th century when they were used as a research tool to discover the stories of the people behind the labor and political movements of the time. The content of oral history interviews is grounded in reflections on the past as opposed to commentary on purely contemporary events. Oral history can refer to a method of recording and preserving oral testimony and to the product of that process. A successful oral history programs require goals, procedures, and training as well as a plan for access to the interview’s content. The class will also cover the selection and set-up of recording equipment to ensure high quality recordings.

Fee: $100 for LYRASIS members; $125 for non-members.  Click here for more information and to register.

 

Wednesday, June 10, 3pm: SAA Free Webinar: Managing Your Career in a Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the employment landscape for many, including archives workers and LIS professionals more broadly. Join Kim Dority for a discussion about strategies for keeping your career moving forward, even as you might face layoffs, unemployment, prolonged under-employment, or other roadblocks during the pandemic and economic downturn. Dority will offer actionable advice, tools, and suggestions for those recalibrating their career expectations in an uncertain time.  Click here for more information and to register.

 

Thursday, June 11, 10-11am: Northeast Ohio Regional Library System Webinar: COVID-19: Documenting the Pandemic in Your Community

The webinar will focus on how to engage the communities you serve to record and collect local history as it happens. Learn the mechanics behind a project that gets everyone involved in documenting community history.

Fees: $40 for non-members; $20 for non-members – recording only; GEO cost $40; Bronze cost $24; free for Gold and Silver members.

Click here for more information and to register.

 

Thursday & Friday, June 11-12, 12-2pm: Course: Technology Management for Archivists

Modern archives depend on technology, but managing the IT aspects have become a growing challenge for all of us, whether it’s working successfully with others (such as campus IT departments, vendors and others), handling tech needs on our own, or making strategic technology decisions with confidence. Although technology is ever-changing, there are some management fundamentals that remain the same in a world of churn.

Based on the instructor’s curriculum created for the American Library Association’s Certified Public Administrator’s Program and the You Can Do I.T. Technology Academy from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, this class is aimed to equip learners with practical frameworks and solutions.

Use promo code TakeItOnline2020 or TakeItOnlineMay20 to receive 20% off online courses and session recordings. (Codes are one-time use. To add multiple courses, click the Add Registration button during the check out process.)

Fee: $249 for SAA members; $299 for employees of SAA member institutions; $349 for non-members.  Click here for more information and to register.

 

Tuesday, June 16, 10am-6pm: SAA Online Course, Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Digital Archives

This course covers privacy and confidentiality legal issues specific to archives of digital material. You’ll examine the intersection of (and the tension between) privacy/confidentiality, free speech, and freedom to research/write, and focus on how digital records and the digital realm have altered the scene. You’ll look at privacy and confidentiality issues in the context of third-party rights, donors, special situations such as medical and education records, national security legislation, and the overriding impact of the digital world. Through case studies, you will examine specific situations pertinent to the work of archivists.

Use promo code TakeItOnline2020 or TakeItOnlineMay20 to receive 20% off online courses and session recordings. (Codes are one-time use. To add multiple courses, click the Add Registration button during the check out process.)

Click here for more information and to register.

 

Wednesday, June 17, 10-11:30am: Ohio Local History Alliance & Ohio Memory, Free 3-Part Webinar Series, Digitization 101, Part I: Plan Before You Scan

Part 1: Plan Before You Scan, will cover project planning and management; funding; vendor selection; material selection, and copyright. Sponsored by the Ohio Local History Alliance and presented by Ohio Memory staff at the Ohio History Connection.  Click here for more information or to register.  Questions? Contact Jenni Salamon: jsalamon@ohiohistory.org

 

Wednesday, June 17, 2pm: Lucidea Free Webinar, Margot Note Presents: Improving Archival Work Through Collections Management Systems

Join us for “Improving Archival Work Through Collections Management Systems”, the next free Lucidea webinar 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

Click here to register and for more information.

 

Thursday, June 18, 5pm: Ohio History Connection and The Ohio State University Department of History Free Webinar, The Value of History During Crisis

We know we’re living through historic times. As we make our way forward together, we’re turning to our past to better understand what’s happening in our world today. From the flu pandemic of 1918, the Great Depression and 9/11, history shows us parallels to our present that prove our best decisions are made in reflecting on the past.

Join us online, Thurs., June 18 at 5 p.m. for a thought-provoking conversation with our panelists as they discuss the importance of history in leadership and decision making.

Panelists:
Mike Anderson, Chairman, The Andersons, Inc.
Andra Geno, Title Operations Project Manager, Creative Production, Netflix
Kelley Griesmer, President & CEO, The Women’s Fund of Central Ohio
Dr. Jack Marchbanks, Director, Ohio Department of Transportation

Moderated by Chris Otter, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University Department of History.

Click here for more information and to register.

 

Monday, June 22, 3pm: SAA Webcast, Navigating Workplace Conflict

Ageism, sexism, racism, able-ism, bullying, and microaggressions can be found in any workplace, and the archival profession is not immune. Many people come to the archives profession to work with historic collections and because they want to connect people with the past. While LIS programs can equip graduates with theory and practical skills for many aspects of the job, there is often little guidance for navigating the minefield of interpersonal dynamics within the workplace. Toxic work environments can create silo-ing within an organization, compromising the stewardship of collections, and driving people away from the field – causing a loss for our entire profession in diversity, perspective, and expertise.

Use promo code TakeItOnline2020 or TakeItOnlineMay20 to receive 20% off online courses and session recordings. (Codes are one-time use. To add multiple courses, click the Add Registration button during the check out process.)

Fee: $109 for SAA members; $159 for employees of SAA member institutions; $159 for non-members.  Click here for more information and to register.

 

Thursday, June 25, 2-3pm: Ohio Digital Network Free Webinar: What the Wiki: Wikimedia Foundation Overview

Wikipedia may be the most commonly used, but it’s just one scoop of ice cream in the banana split of knowledge and data that Wikimedia Foundation has created. In this session, we’ll review and discuss the workings of Wikimedia Foundation as a whole, the goals of each of their projects, and how you can use them to support patron and research needs.

This is the first in ODN’s 3-part series on the Wikimedia Foundation.  Click here to join the webinar.  Note: You will need to have the Microsoft Team app to view.

 

Monday, June 29, 12-8pm: SAA Online Course, Introduction to PREMIS

This is a one-day course covering the background, purpose, structure and use of the Data Dictionary and XML schema products of PREMIS, a preservation metadata initiative and maintenance activity based at the Library of Congress. Students will learn about the background of PREMIS, what constitutes preservation metadata, and gain some basic experience creating a PREMIS instance of preservation metadata.

Use promo code TakeItOnline2020 or TakeItOnlineMay20 to receive 20% off online courses and session recordings. (Codes are one-time use. To add multiple courses, click the Add Registration button during the check out process.)

Fees: Register by 5/29/2020 to get early bird prices: SAA members, $199/249; employees of SAA member institutions, $239/$299; non-members, $279/$349.  Click here for more information and to register.

 

Tuesday, July 14, 10-11:30am: Ohio Local History Alliance & Ohio Memory, Free 3-Part Webinar Series, Digitization 101, Part II: Tools and Techniques

Part 2, Tools and Techniques, will cover equipment, scanning standards and best practices, and newspaper digitization. Sponsored by the Ohio Local History Alliance and presented by Ohio Memory staff at the Ohio History Connection.  Click here to register and for more information.  Questions? Contact Jenni Salamon at jsalamon@ohiohistory.org.

 

Thursday, July 30, 2-3pm: Ohio Digital Network Free Webinar, What the Wiki: Community Editing

The idea (and practice) of becoming a Wikipedia editor can feel overwhelming. In this session, we’ll take the bite-by-bite approach of eating this fact-filled banana split. You’ve never eaten those in one gulp, so why start now? There are lots of ways to become involved, while updating and editing information about something you know inside and out – your own institution and community!

This is the second in ODN’s 3-part series on the Wikimedia Foundation.  Click here to join the webinar.  Note: You will need to have the Microsoft Team app to view.

 

Tuesday, August 18, 10-11:30am: Ohio Local History Alliance & Ohio Memory, Free 3-Part Webinar Series, Digitization 101, Part III: Providing Access and Measuring Success

Part 3, Providing Access and Measuring Success will cover metadata standards and best practices; storage; hosting and public access; and project evaluation. Sponsored by the Ohio Local History Alliance and presented by Ohio Memory staff at the Ohio History Connection.  Click here to register and for more information.  Questions? Contact Jenni Salamon at jsalamon@ohiohistory.org.

 

Thursday, August 27, 2-3pm: Ohio Digital Network Free Webinar, What the Wiki: Adding Content to the Wikiverse

Lastly, we’ll top that banana split with our own content (or chocolate sauce, whatever!), and add it to the proverbial catalog of resources that other users can use, as well. Even if you’re not into editing what’s already there, your institution can increase its visibility on one of the most-used websites in the world.

This is the third in ODN’s 3-part series on the Wikimedia Foundation.  Click here to join the webinar.  Note: You will need to have the Microsoft Team app to view.