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 1640. 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
The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Kegan Award Subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists recognizes an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for educational, intructional, or other public purpose. For … Continue reading
The Society of American Archivists offers five awards to students and prospective students in the profession. Click here for more information.
Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive in Burien, Washington is requesting proposals from consultant archivists to assist with a grant-funded historic record digitization project. The work includes developing a digitization process document, training volunteers to digitize records, and developing a preservation plan for the records. Consultant must have a State of Washington business license when the proposal is … Continue reading
