New England Archivists

Education

2008 Workshops

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS FOR JUNE

Online with EAD

REGISTRATION HAS ENDED FOR THIS WORKSHOP

Friday, June 13, 2008
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Calipari Room, W.E.B. DuBois Library
Full day workshop, 9:00 - 5:00

Instructors: Robert S. Cox and Danielle Kovacs, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

In this workshop we will explore issues and approaches to serving finding aids using EAD. The workshop will provide hands on experience encoding finding aids in EAD, a brief introduction to stylesheets, file management, and various models for serving EAD files to the public. Participants will take away from the workshop templates, stylesheets, and other tools to support EAD production.

For more information, please contact Danielle Kovacs, Registrar, at (413) 545-2784 or dkovacs@library.umass.edu

What's in your Stacks? An introduction to identifying and caring for your audio-visual materials

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Friday, June 20, 2008
Aldrich House, Rhode Island Historical Society
Providence, RI
Full day workshop, 9:00 - 5:00

Instructor: James DaMico, Graphics Project Archivist, MLIS, Rhode Island Historical Society

Within the last 150 years, we have witnessed an unprecedented technological revolution that has enriched the written word and added to the collective cultural memory. Beginning with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's invention of photography in 1826, Thomas Edison's phonograph in 1877, the Lumiere brothers' Cinématographe in 1895 and Valdemar Poulsen's Telegraphone in 1900, society has been able to capture human emotion, history, tradition, cultural identity, and evidence of wrong doing and accomplishment in a richer, fuller way.

The development of civilizations has taken place because of the human need to document and preserve those documents for future generations to learn from. Unlike paper documents, which have a life expectancy of at least one hundred years, audio-visual material recorded on magnetic tape has approximately a fifty-year life span.

In this workshop, the archivist will learn how to, in hands on practice, identify audio and videotape formats, causes of decay and physical changes to the media. The storage and handling of tape, choices of reformatting, and resources to consult for further information will also be addressed.

Who should attend?

This workshop is for archivists who have little to no experience with audio-visual material and are looking for an introductory course.

Limited to 15 registrants.

Registration forms available here.

Instructor Powerpoint document available here.

For more information, please contact Heather Dean, Registrar, at (203) 432-9027 or heather.dean@yale.edu

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS FOR JULY

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) An NEA and URI Library Special Collections co-sponsored workshop

July 17, 2008
Location: Fogarty Hall, Room 120,
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.
Full day workshop, 9am - 5 pm.

Instructor : Kelcy Shephard

This workshop, a basic introduction to the standard, focuses on application of DACS rules and concepts, which participants can apply to repository processes and descriptive outputs.

NEA members who are not SAA members can recieve a discount on the non-member fee by entering the promotional code "DACSNEA08" when they register.

Early-Bird Registration Deadline: June 17, 2008

For more details and registration, please see: SAA Events

Past Workshops, 1999-2007:

Advanced Electronic Records
Archival Description with DACS
Arrangement and Description
Advanced Management of Photograph Collections
Advanced Reference
Caring for Historical Records : An Introduction
Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Preservation Management Basics for Paper-Based Holdings
Nuts and Bolts of Fundraising: Tips on Givers and Visits
Building A Visionary Archives
Identification and Preservation of Photographs
Identifying and Handling Photographs
Introduction to Archives
Introduction to Digital Preservation
Introduction to Oral History
Leaky Pipes and Broken Windows: Disaster Preparedness for Archives
Maps in the Archives
Now Presenting Local History: Options for Exhibiting Archives
Planning for EAD in an XML World
Planning New and Remodeled Archives
Basic Electronic Records (cosponsored with SAA)
Copyright: The Archivist and the Law (cosponsored with SAA and MARAC)
Fundamentals of Archival Acquisition and Appraisal (cosponsored with Nelinet)
Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Successful Grant Proposal (cosponsored with MARAC)
Finding Aids in A Virtual World
Scrapbooks and Albums: A Preservation Dilemma
Help! It Won't Fit in a Folder
Using the AAT in Archives and Special Collections
Using the Archivists' ToolkitTM to Implement DACS Compliant Descriptions
Preservation of Archival Moving Image Material
Skills for the New Manager
Film Preservation Basics
Managing Textile Collections in Archives
Standards for Arrangement and Description
Introduction to Archives
Arrangment and Description

What topics would you like?

The Education Committee continues to seek input from the members concerning topics they would like to see addressed in future workshops.We are also recruiting instructors to work with us to offer workshops. Please fill out and return our questionnaire.

The Education Committee plans educational opportunities to meet the needs of both NEA members and others with responsibility for, or an interest in, records of enduring value.The committee seeks to provide a multi-tiered approach to continuing education. See upcoming workshops, below.

In conjunction with the semi-annual New England Archivists meetings, the Education Committee offers workshops targeted to meet the varying needs of those seeking archival education and those interested in furthering their archival education.

If you are interested in pursuing a degree or formal coursework, there are several Archival Education Programs and Courses in New England.

NEA has established a cycle of three full-day introductory courses to provide archival training for those with little formal archival education. Caring for Historical Records introduces the basic theories and principles of archival organization. Arrangement and Description is a full-day exploration of those two important topics. A printed manual developed by the instructor is included. A full-day workshop on the topic of Reference and Access completes the cycle. Each of these programs is offered yearly or more often as needed.

For those more with archival training and experience, NEA offers one or two workshops in conjunction with each meeting. Topics are derived from needs expressed by members through surveys and meeting evaluations. Recent topics have included preservation, disaster planning, grant writing, policies and procedures, Internet issues, and management.

In order to provide highly specialized training to our professional members, NEA joins SAA as the co-sponsor of SAA workshops held in conjunction with our meetings. Copyright: The Archivist and the Law, and Basic Electronic Records are among recent joint SAA/NEA workshop offerings.