Wednesday, April 28, 2010

When Disaster Strikes: Emergency Preparedness & Response

The workshop will assist participants in understanding key steps in disaster preparedness and develop tools and techniques and provide opportunities to create a basic plan and to receive feedback. The workshop focuses on critical skills such as insurance, risk assessment / prevention, working with emergency recovery services, training staff, and testing disaster plans.

Presented by: Julie A. Page, Co-Coordinator for the Western States & Territories Preservation Assistance Service (WESTPAS) and Gary Menges, Preservation Administrator at the University of Washington Libraries

Full day, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Lunch on your own)

Cost: $50.00

Register: http://northwestarchivistsinc.wildapricot.org/Registration

Attendance is limited to 30

Archival Recertification Credits: 5, section B.3.c

Grant Writing

This practical workshop reviews various types of state, federal, and private foundation grants that have the potential to support the archival enterprise and provides information about researching and writing grant proposals. Topics include types of grants and grant funders, fundamentals of effective grant proposal writing, creating realistic budgets, the grant review process, and funding resources.

Presented by: Daniel Stokes, Director for State Programs at the NHPRC, overseeing the State and National Archival Partnership (SNAP) grants program.

Full day, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Lunch on your own)

Cost: $50.00

Attendance is limited to 25

Archival Recertification Credits: 5, section B.3.c

Register: http://northwestarchivistsinc.wildapricot.org/Registration

Implementing “More Product, Less Process”

Backlogs don’t have to weigh as heavily as they do! Focus on implementing concrete strategies for increasing processing rates and reducing backlogs as outlined in the Greene-Meissner article, “More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival Processing,” and learn as you share information and experiences with your fellow workshop participants. Topics include appraisal, arrangement, description, digitization, and preservation, as well as development of processing plans, policies, and benchmarks.

Presented by: Jennifer Meehan, Accessioning Archivist, at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Time: Full day, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Lunch on your own)

Cost: SAA Members: $185 / $235

Nonmembers with WR discount $210 / $260

SAA Student Members: $95.50 / $117.50

Nonmember Student: $117.50 / $142.50

Please note that this is an Society of American Archivists workshop so you must register for it on the SAA website. Click here for more information.

Attendance is limited to 35

Archival Recertification Credits: 5, section B.3.c

What a great chance to show off our city and the great archival resources available here!  The conference program is forthcoming.  Take a look at the conference website here.

Check back to the site often for updates!

Perhaps you are new to the profession, have started a new job, or have new duties or responsibilities in your current position and would like to confer with a more experienced archivist.

Are you an experienced archivist that would like to share your expertise and wisdom?

Then the Northwest Archivists (NWA) Mentoring Program is for you.  Mentoring is a developmental relationship in which a more experienced person provides support and guidance to a less experienced person. For example, an archivist with multiple years of professional experience could serve as a mentor to someone in their first archival job, or a person with specific skills (website development, film preservation, staff supervision, etc.) could mentor someone taking on new responsibilities or seeking to improve their abilities. A protégé (or mentee) might be someone wishing to expand his or her understanding of some aspect of the profession, or wanting an opportunity to bounce ideas off a colleague with more experience in a particular area.

You are welcome to apply as a protégé or mentor at any time.  There is no application deadline.  More detailed Information about mentoring, the NWA Mentoring Program, and applications for mentors and protégés are available at:  http://weblib.lib.umt.edu/faculty/mccrea/NWAMentoring.htm

Questions about the program can be directed to Elizabeth Nielsen (elizabeth.nielsen@oregonstate.edu; 541.737.0543) or Donna McCrea (donna.mccrea@umontana.edu; 406.243.4403).  We look forward to talking with you!

The deadline for submitting a workshop or session proposal for the Western Round-Up 2010 Joint CIMA/NWA/SCA/SRMA Meeting is quickly approaching.

All proposals must be received by October 9th, 2009

Deadline for proposals has been extended to October 16th, 2009.

Meeting dates: April 28-May 1st, 2010
Meeting location: Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA

Click here for more information about session/workshop proposals.