The University of Puget Sound Collins Memorial Library is pleased to announce recruitment for a new position of Archivist/Digital Collections Coordinator. Primary responsibilities include: managing all aspects of the Archives and Digital Collections. In addition, this position serves as the primary contact for the library’s special collections materials. Begin Date: Preference is for the candidate … Continue reading
Join your Greater Seattle Area ARMA colleagues for our third annual joint event on May 3. Learn how the University of Washington’s Records Manager, Barbara Benson, and Archivist, John Bolcer, work together to ensure the proper management of information throughout the entire records lifecycle. Where does their work overlap? How do they support one another? How do … Continue reading
Seattle Area Archivists is hosting Managing Electronic Records in Archives and Special Collections (a Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist course) on May 10-11 at Seattle Municipal Tower, room 1650. Current SeaAA members (and those who joined/renewed before March 15, 2012) will receive a $25 discount on the course. REGISTER BEFORE APRIL 11 TO … Continue reading
Seattle Area Archivists is hosting Managing Electronic Records in Archives and Special Collections (a Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist course) on May 10-11 at Seattle Municipal Tower, room 1650. Current SeaAA members (and those who join/renew before March 15) will receive a $25 discount on the course. REGISTER BEFORE APRIL 11 TO RECEIVE … Continue reading
Jody DeRidder from the University of Alabama had the honor of being selected as one of 24 participants from across the country to be trained at the Library of Congress in the inaugural Digital Preservation and Outreach Education (DPOE: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/) Train-the-trainer initiative. She will be giving a series of 3 1-hour webinars on basic digital … Continue reading
Do you need new ideas on how to attract scarce resources to support the archives and special collections program at your institution? Join Northwest Digital Archives at a forum on March 22, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the White Stag Building in Portland, Oregon, to build your skills for effective program advocacy … Continue reading
The Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) is pleased to announce a recruitment and outreach scholarship program to encourage minority students at the undergraduate and graduate levels to consider undertaking doctoral education focusing in Archival Studies, a multidisciplinary field that examines the social, cultural, political, and technological imperatives and professional practices of record keeping and … Continue reading
The 26th annual Western Archives Institute is an intensive, two-week program that provides integrated instruction in basic archival practices to individuals with a variety of backgrounds, including those whose jobs require a fundamental understanding of archival skills, but who have little or no previous archives education; those who have expanding responsibility for archival materials; those … Continue reading
CALL FOR PAPERS:THE MEMORY OF THE WORLD IN THE DIGITAL AGE: DIGITIZATION AND PRESERVATION – UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme, in cooperation with the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies and with the Library of the University of British Columbia, and in partnership with IFLA, ICA, ICOM, WIPO, Google, Microsoft and others, is … Continue reading
The student chapter of the Association of Canadian Archivists at the University of British Columbia will be hosting the ACA@UBC 2012 International Symposium, Unpacking the Digital Shoebox: The Future of Personal Archives on Friday, February 17th 2012 at the Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC. The speakers will help us navigate the future of personal archives … Continue reading
