Past Workshops
2025
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 (webinar)
Not Like Other Collections: Processing Congressional Papers
Presenters: John Caldwell (University of Delaware), Dawn Sueoka (University of Hawai'i at Manoa), and Kate Gregory (Mississippi State University)
Thursday, August 21, 2025 (webinar)
Promoting Archival Work Through Advocacy and Outreach
Presenters: Jess Farrell (Redstart Works) and Alice Walton (Fiona Hutton & Associates)
2024
Monday, December 9, 2024 (webinar)
Anti-Ableism Training with Annie Roos
Presenter: Annie Roos
Thursday, March 28, 2024 (webinar)
Planning and Managing for Digital Projects in Libraries and Archives
Presenter: Dinah Handel (Stanford Libraries)
2023
February 23, 2023 (webinar)
Hacking the Academic Interview Session 2: Day of the Interview
Presenters: Carly Marino (Cal Poly Humboldt), Jason Sarmiento (UC Davis), and Lizeth Zepeda (Loyola Marymount University)
January 26, 2023 (webinar)
Role of Archival Partnerships in Documenting Past and Present
Presenters: Yedida Kanfer (JFCS Holocaust Center) and Sandra Aguilar (USC Shoah Foundation)
2022
December 7, 2022 (webinar)
Increasing Access: Transforming Physical Archive Inventory into Online Learning Resources
Presenter: Kaerie Ray (Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation)
September 14, 2022 (webinar)
Hacking the Academic Interview: Session 1 (Pre-Interview)
Presenters: T-Kay Sangwand (University of California, Los Angeles), Erika Montenegro (East Los Angeles College), and Azalea Camacho (California State University, Los Angeles)
August 18, 2022 (webinar)
Disrupting Assumptions: Forging Interdisciplinary Archival Engagement
Presenters: Julia Tanaka (Occidental College) and Claudia Willet (Stanford University)
April 14, 2022 (webinar)
8 Strategies To Mitigate Implicit Bias (Right To Be + SCA Part 1)
Presenters: Right to Be
May 15, 2022 (webinar)
Bystander Intervention in Public Spaces (Right to Be + SCA Part 2)
Presenters: Right to Be
2021
April 26, 2021 (webinar)
What it means to be responsible for climate-related records: Creating and using climate-related archives
Presenters: Jillian Lohndorf (Internet Archive) and Claire Williams (University of British Columbia)
April 26, 2021 (webinar)
Hands-on with Padlet: Creating A Virtual Interactive Space with Archives for Instruction and Beyond
Presenters: Rachel Wen-Paloutzian and Laura Poladian (Loyola Marymount University)
April 26, 2021 (webinar)
Core Concepts of Accessibility in Archives
Presenter: Dr. Lydia Tang (LYRASIS)
January 21, 2021 (webinar)
Liberated Archives for Black Lives
Presenter: Teressa Raiford (Dont Shoot Portland)
2020
December 10, 2020 (webinar)
Presenters: Azalea Camacho (Cal State LA), Amalia Castañeda (Cal State, Dominguez Hills), and Karina Cardenas (CSU Fresno)
September 29, 2020 (webinar)
Tell Us How UC It: Thinking Critically through a Living Archive for Student Activism
Presenters: Tamara Rhodes and Cristela Garcia-Spitz, UC San Diego
2019
December 13, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA
OpenRefine and International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
Presenters: Dawn Childress and Claudia Horning, UCLA
December 11, 2019 (webinar)
ArchivesSpace and Airtable for Improved Workflow Management
Presenters: Weatherly Stephan and Rachel Searcy, NYU Libraries
November 5, 2019 in Sacramento, CA
Introduction to Archives Management
Presenter: Nancy Lenoil
June 7, 2019 in Berkeley, CA
Applying Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts)
Presenters: Margaret Nichols, Cornell University Library; Jennifer K. Nelson, UC Berkeley School of Law; Alison E. Bridger, Wisconsin Historical Society
April 24, 2019 in Long Beach, CA
Constructing Archival Authorities: Describing Archives: A Content Standard Part II
Presenters: Sue Luftschein, USC
April 24, 2019 in Long Beach, CA
Principled Archivists: How to Make the New DACS Principles Work for You and Your Users
Presenters: Maureen Callahan, Smith College and Carrie Hintz, Emory University
February 27, 2019 (webinar)
Successful Grant Writing for Archives
Presenters: Greg Williams, CSU Dominguez Hills
2018
November 15, 2018 in Glendale, CA
Practical Coding for Archivists
Presenters: Noah Geraci, UCR
November 5, 2018 in San Francisco, CA
ArchivesSpace Digital Objects
Presenters: Nancy Enneking, Getty Research Institute
September 17, 2018 (webinar)
Applying Radical Empathy Framework in Archival Practice
Presenters: Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez, UCI and Jasmine Jones, UCLA
April 11, 2018 in Yosemite, CA
Get Hand-On Improving Descriptive Practices for Born-Digital Material in an Archival Context
Presenters: Shira Peltzman, UCLA and Charlie Macquarie, UCSF
April 11, 2018 in Yosemite, CA
How to Tame your Dragon: Learning to Befriend your Backlog through Efficient Processing
Presenter: Kelly Spring, UCI
2017
November 6, 2017 (webinar)
Copyright Workflows for Work with Visual Resources
Presenter: Rachael G. Samberg, University of California, Berkeley
November 3, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA
Get Hands On: Improving Descriptive Practices for Born-Digital Material in an Archival Context
Instructors: Shira Peltzman, UCLA and Annalise Berdini, UCSD
2016
December 9, 2016 in Los Angeles, CA
Appraisal of Electronic Records
(Offered by the Society of American Archivists, sponsored by SCA)
Instructor: Sue Luftschein, University of Southern California
Practical Exhibition Preparation and Preservation Issues
Instructor:
Workshop presentation and handouts:
2015armssimon_presentationslides.pptx
2015armssimon_exhibit_object_spreadsheet.xlsx
2015armssimon_exhibitschedule_v2.pdf
2014
November 22, 2014 in San Marino, CA
Engine or Caboose? The Changing Relationship between Archives and Records Management Instructors:
Leslie R. Fisher, MLIS, CLIS, Records Retention Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Sydney Bailey, Archivist, California State Archives
Walter P. Gray III Scholarship Recipient: Michael McNeil, Bibliographer II at UC Berkeley School of Information
Leslie Fisher and Sydney Bailey's presentation (PowerPoint)
May 8, 2014 in Palm Springs, CA (a pre-AGM workshop of the 2014 AGM)
Media Rising: Bringing Audiovisual Collections Back to Life
Instructor:
Pamela Vadakan, California Preservation Program
May 8, 2014 in Palm Springs, CA (a pre-AGM workshop of the 2014 AGM)
Accessioning and Ingest of Electronic Records
(Offered by the Society of American Archivists, sponsored by SCA)
Instructor:
Erin E. Faulder
March 28, 2014 in Sacramento, CA
Practical Project Management for Archivists
Instructor:
Mitchell Brodsky, Digital Archives Manager at the New York Philharmonic
2013
November 5, 2013 in Riverside, CA
Instructors:
Liza Posas, Head Librarian/Archivist, Braun Research Library, Autry National Center, and LA as Subject Coordinator
Joanne Lammers, Director of the Archive, Writers Guild Foundation
Jackie Dooley, Program Officer for OCLC Research and Immediate Past President of Society of American Archivists
Chaitra Powell, Project Archivist, Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum
Sharing Archival Collections in the 21st Century: Legal Issues
Instructor:
Mary Minow, AMLS, JD, author and manage of Stanford's Copyright and Fair Use website
Mary Minow's list of resources (via LibraryLaw blog)
Privacy and Confidentiality Issues for Digital Archives
(Offered by the Society of American Archivists, sponsored by SCA)
Instructor:
Heather Briston, Head of Public Services for UCLA Library Special Collections
Instructors:
Accessioning Born-Digital Materials
Instructor:
Peter Chan, Digital Archivist for Stanford University, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Peter Chan's presentation (PDF)
Digital Curation: Creating an Environment for Success
(Offered by the Society of American Archivists, sponsored by SCA)
Instructor:
Jackie Esposito, Owner of archival consulting firm, Archives and Old Lace
April 26, 2012 in Ventura, CA (a pre-AGM workshop of the 2012 AGM)
Preservation for Archives and Archivists
Instructor:
Kristen St. John, Collections Conservator for the UCLA Library
March 30, 2012 in San Francisco, CA
DIY Usability Testing: Quick and Approachable Methods To Improve Your Website and Other Communication Channels By Listening to Users
Instructor:
Anne Hall, Research Librarian and Archivist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
January 20, 2012 in Thousand Oaks, CA
Introduction to Electronic Records
Instructor:
Mahnaz Ghaznavi, Curator of University Archives for Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
2011
Modeling & Constructing Digital Objects: Using the Archivists' Toolkit
(Sponsored by the California Digital Library and SCA)
Instructors:
Bradley D. Westbrook, Metadata Librarian & Digital Archivist at the UC San Diego Libraries; Project Manager of the Archivists’ Toolkit (AT) project
Adrian Turner, Data Consultant at the California Digital Library, Digital Special Collections
March 7, 2011 in San Marino, CA
Oral History for Archivists
Instructor:
Teresa Barnett, head of the UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research
2010
Archives on the Move! Plan to Move Your Collection/Renovate Your Facility
Instructors:
Elizabeth Konzak, Hoover Institution Archives as Assistant Archivist for Processing
Lori Lindberg, Archival Consultant and Lecturer in the archives specialization at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University
Laren Metzer, Deputy State Archivist
2007
Implementing DACS (a follow up to the SAA workshop on DACS -- November 3, 2006 in Mountain View, CA)
Instructors:
Alison Bridger, Manuscripts Cataloger at UC Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Michelle Light, Archivist at UC Irvine, Langson Library
2006
All About DACS
(Offered by the Society of American Archivists, sponsored by SCA)
Instructor:
William E. Landis, Metadata Coordinator, University of California
Databases for Archival Collections
Copyright in the Digital Age: Archivists and the Internet
Instructors:
Tyler Ochoa, Law Professor, Santa Clara University Law School
Elizabeth Townsend, Attorney; non-resident fellow at Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
Rick Prelinger, Archivist; Filmmaker; Board Member of National Film Preservation Board as representative of the Association of Moving Image Archivists; Board President of the Internet Archive and San Francisco Cinematheque; Co-Founder of the Prelinger Library
July 22, 2005 in San Diego, CA
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