Upcoming Workshops

Liberated Archives for Black Lives

Thursday, January 21, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (webinar)

Presenters: Teressa Raiford (Don't Shoot Portland)

Liberated Archives for Black Lives centers education and documentation for preservation, art and history. Through our partnership with the City of Portland Archives, Don’t Shoot Portland has been able to gain access to informational archives and relate them to our current systems - these educational assets are vital to sustaining social change. Participants of this webinar will learn how to connect with communities to build dialogue regarding the importance of local preservation of Black Civil Rights. They will learn from our workshop the types of events, materials and community partnerships we have used and ways to develop these relationships for the direct benefit of community access. The intended audience for this webinar would be archivists, historians, librarians, artists, activists, community educators and organizers.

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CANCELLATION NOTICE:

Events scheduled at the InterContinental San Francisco in conjunction with the Western Archivists Meeting, April 22-25, 2020 have been cancelled.

Protocols 101: A Case-study Intensive on How to Start the Conversation at Your Institution

Wednesday, April 22, (time TBD)

The InterContinental San Francisco (room TBD)

Instructor: Liza Posas

This free workshop is designed to be an interactive “clinic” that compliments the Protocols 101: How to Start the Conversation at Your Institution course originally presented by Nicholas Wojcik with guest speaker Veronica Reyes-Escudero on May 15, 2019 in Tucson, Arizona.

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What Can I Do With This?: Enabling Ethical Re-Use of your Content

Wednesday, April 22, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The InterContinental San Francisco (room TBD)

Instructor: Jodi Allison-Bunnell

Many repositories are beginning to explore--or are even committed to--methods to help their researchers clearly understand how collections may be used. These methods range from Creative Commons licenses for finding aid metadata, licenses and standardized rights statements for digital collections, to Traditional Knowledge labels for Native American materials. This workshop will offer both background about and hands-on practice in engaging these issues.

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The Community Archiving Workshop: Audiovisual Collections Care and Management

Wednesday, April 22, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The InterContinental San Francisco (room TBD)

Instructors: Dinah Handel, Moriah Ulinskas, Pamela Vadakan

Many librarians and archivists find themselves struggling to manage unique and aging film, video and audio recordings, and often lack the training and capacity to create, manage, preserve, and provide access to their audiovisual collections. The Community Archiving Workshop provides an opportunity for participants to engage in hands‐on processing, inspecting, and cataloging of audiovisual media – both analog and digital – and gain transferable skills to support their own collections. Most importantly, we will be working together to help a local organization gain intellectual and physical control of their endangered audiovisual collection.

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If you have a suggestion for a workshop topic, or if you have any questions, the contact info for the Co-Chairs of the Education Committee is on our Committees web page.