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Upcoming events

    • July 20, 2026
    • July 31, 2026
    • Online
    • 6
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    The Western Archives Institute (WAI) is an intensive, two-week online program that offers integrated instruction in basic archival practices. It is designed for individuals with diverse professional goals, including those whose roles require a foundational understanding of archival skills but who have little or no prior archival training; those assuming increased responsibility for archival materials; practicing archivists without formal archival education; and individuals committed to pursuing a career in archives.


    Registration is limited to accepted participants

    • July 20, 2026
    • July 31, 2026
    • Online
    Register

    The Western Archives Institute (WAI) is an intensive, two-week online program that offers integrated instruction in basic archival practices. It is designed for individuals with diverse professional goals, including those whose roles require a foundational understanding of archival skills but who have little or no prior archival training; those assuming increased responsibility for archival materials; practicing archivists without formal archival education; and individuals committed to pursuing a career in archives.

    Your sponsorship of WAI will include:

    Pre-Event Promotion

    • Company logo and profile on our WAI website
    • Company logo on our promotional emails

    WAI Branding, and Networking

    • Oral acknowledgement during WAI program
    • Company logo and profile on our learning management system

Past events

June 12, 2026 Communications and Outreach Committee Meeting
June 05, 2026 First Fridays: First Fridays: Roll for Adventure: Bringing Games into the Archives
May 18, 2026 New Board and Committee Chair Terms Begin
April 16, 2026 No-Host Meetup: Granville
April 16, 2026 AGM Tour: CSUN Special Collections & Archives
April 16, 2026 AGM Tour: Caltech Archives
April 16, 2026 Call to Service: Demystifying SCA Leadership
April 15, 2026 SCA Annual Membership Business Meeting, 2026
April 15, 2026 2026 Virtual AGM - Shifting Ground: Preserving Memory Amid Upheaval
April 14, 2026 No-Host Meetup: Story Tavern
April 14, 2026 Discovering Your Leadership Story: An Interactive Leadership Workshop
April 14, 2026 Check Yourself: Auditing Your Workflows With the Accessioning Best Practices
April 13, 2026 No-Host Meetup: Red Lion Tavern
April 10, 2026 Communications and Outreach Committee meeting
April 03, 2026 First Fridays: Collections Show & Tell
March 13, 2026 Western Archives Institute (WAI) Information Session
March 06, 2026 First Fridays: An open Q&A for emerging professionals
February 06, 2026 First Fridays: Demystifying SCA Committees
January 09, 2026 First Fridays: SCA Strategic Planning Task Force discussion
December 20, 2025 2025 L.A. As Subject, L.A.A.C. Holiday Meetup
November 07, 2025 First Fridays: Mental Health & Self-Care
October 30, 2025 SCA Fall Members Meeting
October 03, 2025 First Fridays
September 05, 2025 First Fridays: Advocacy and Outreach
August 21, 2025 Promoting Archival Work Through Advocacy and Outreach
August 08, 2025 First Fridays
April 02, 2025 Demystifying Digitization: Planning a Digitization Project from Start to Finish
April 02, 2025 AGM 2025: The Future of Memory: Archival Innovation and Sustainability
April 02, 2025 Exhibitors and Sponsors AGM 2025: The Future of Memory: Archival Innovation and Sustainability
April 02, 2025 Repository Tours - AGM 2025
March 27, 2025 Community Roundtable: Presenting at SCA
April 15, 2024 2024 AGM- Pivoting: Responding to Changes in the Archives
April 12, 2024 Unlocking Learning Landscapes: Leveraging Place in Archival Instructional Programming (AGM Workshop)
April 12, 2024 Re-framing Organizations: Managing Change as You Move Your Organization Forward (AGM Workshop)
March 28, 2024 Planning and Managing for Digital Projects in Libraries and Archives
April 06, 2023 Annual General Meeting 2023
February 23, 2023 Hacking the Academic Interview Session 2: Day of Interview
January 26, 2023 Role of Archival Partnerships in Documenting Past and Present
December 07, 2022 Increasing Access: Transforming Physical Archive Inventory into Online Learning Resources
September 14, 2022 Hacking the Academic Interview: Session 1
August 18, 2022 Disrupting Assumptions: Forging Interdisciplinary Archival Engagement
May 03, 2022 Bystander Intervention in Public Spaces (Right to Be + SCA Part 2)
April 14, 2022 8 Strategies To Mitigate Implicit Bias (Right To Be + SCA Part 1)
August 13, 2021 SCA First Friday: Intro to the Best Practices for Archival Term Positions document and work
July 06, 2021 2021 WAI Online Registration
July 02, 2021 SCA First Friday - July 2021
June 04, 2021 SCA First Friday - June 2021
June 02, 2021 Processing and Providing Access to Email Collections with ePADD
May 07, 2021 SCA First Friday - May 2021
April 27, 2021 Annual General Meeting 2021
April 26, 2021 What it means to be responsible for climate-related records: Creating and using climate-related archives
April 26, 2021 Hands-on with Padlet: Creating A Virtual Interactive Space with Archives for Instruction and Beyond
April 26, 2021 Core Concepts of Accessibility in Archives
April 02, 2021 SCA First Friday - April 2021
March 05, 2021 SCA First Friday - March 2021
March 04, 2021 Doors Wide Open: Advancing Inclusive Access to Special Collections (CARL/SCA Joint Panel)
February 05, 2021 SCA First Friday - February 2021
January 21, 2021 Liberated Archives for Black Lives
January 08, 2021 SCA First Friday - January 2021
December 10, 2020 Beyond Diversity Initiatives: Recruitment of BIPOC into Archives and Special Collections Librarianship
December 04, 2020 SCA First Friday - December
November 06, 2020 SCA First Friday - November
October 02, 2020 SCA First Friday - October
September 29, 2020 Tell Us How UC It: Thinking Critically through a Living Archive for Student Activism
September 04, 2020 SCA First Friday - September
August 14, 2020 SCA Monthly Meeting - August
July 10, 2020 SCA Monthly Meeting Kick-Off
June 03, 2020 2020 SCA Membership Meeting
April 22, 2020 CANCELLED - What Can I Do With This?: Enabling Ethical Re-Use of your Content
April 22, 2020 CANCELLED - The Community Archiving Workshop: Audiovisual Collections Care and Management
April 22, 2020 CANCELLED - Protocols 101: A Case-study Intensive on How to Start the Conversation at Your Institution
December 13, 2019 OpenRefine and International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
December 11, 2019 ArchivesSpace and Airtable for Improved Workflow Management
November 05, 2019 Introduction to Archives Management
June 07, 2019 Applying Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts)
April 24, 2019 Principled Archivists: How to Make the New DACS Principles Work for You and Your Users
April 24, 2019 Constructing Archival Authorities: Describing Archives: A Content Standard Part II
April 24, 2019 SCA 2019 Annual General Meeting
March 29, 2019 2019 WAI Local Arrangements Online Registration
February 27, 2019 Successful Grant Writing for Archives
November 15, 2018 Practical Coding for Archivists
November 05, 2018 ArchivesSpace Digital Objects Workshop
September 17, 2018 Applying Radical Empathy Framework in Archival Practice
April 11, 2018 Get Hands-On: Improving Descriptive Practices for Born-Digital Material in an Archival Context
April 11, 2018 How to Tame your Dragon: Learning to Befriend your Backlog through Efficient Processing
April 11, 2018 SCA Annual General Meeting 2018
March 16, 2018 2018 WAI Local Arrangements Online Registration
November 06, 2017 Copyright Workflows for Work with Visual Resources
November 03, 2017 Get Hands-On: Improving Descriptive Practices for Born-Digital Material in an Archival Context
September 21, 2017 An Archivist Walks into a Backlog: Strategies for Efficient Processing
July 23, 2017 Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting
June 12, 2017 CaVRACon - California Visual Resources Conference
April 27, 2017 Annual General Meeting 2017
March 30, 2017 2017 WAI Local Arrangements Online Registration
December 09, 2016 The Ins and Outs of Being an Effective Supervisor
November 10, 2016 Appraisal of Electronic Records (#1772)
October 22, 2016 "Remember, Educate, and Inspire: Learning from Our Past to Improve Our Future" by Go For Broke National Education Center Special Collections and Archives
October 22, 2016 Santa Clara Valley Archives Crawl
October 15, 2016 11th Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar
October 08, 2016 Sacramento Archives Crawl 2016
October 05, 2016 SJSU School of Information Open House
October 05, 2016 UC San Francisco Archives and Special Collections Open House
August 14, 2016 Endless Images - Summer Mini-Conference in Laguna
July 31, 2016 Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and Society of American Archivists
July 10, 2016 Western Archives Institute 2016
April 07, 2016 Annual General Meeting 2016
March 30, 2016 2016 WAI Local Arrangements Online Registration
March 18, 2016 Get Hands-On: An Introduction to Making Special Collections Instruction a Rich and Transformative Learning Experience
February 26, 2016 Choosing a Digital Asset Management System
December 10, 2015 Cheerfest 2015 - Bay Area Archivists' Holiday Happy Hour!
August 28, 2015 SCA Mini-Conference at the San Diego Air & Space Museum
August 27, 2015 Getting Started with ArchivesSpace
August 27, 2015 Digital Forensics: Fundamentals
May 15, 2015 Practical Exhibition Preparation and Preservation Issues
May 01, 2015 Practical Exhibition Preparation and Preservation Issues
April 17, 2015 Exhibitions for Beginners
March 29, 2015 WAI Local Arrangements Online Registration
November 22, 2014 Exhibition Development, Design, and Assessment: Best Practices
November 21, 2014 Exhibition Development, Design, and Assessment: Best Practices
November 04, 2014 Engine or Caboose? The Changing Relationship between Archives and Records Management
May 08, 2014 SCA Annual General Meeting
April 01, 2014 WAI Local Arrangements Online Registration
March 28, 2014 Project Management for Archivists
November 05, 2013 Fall Workshop Week: Making the Most of the Intern
November 04, 2013 Fall Workshop Week: Sharing Archival Collections in the 21st Century: Legal Issues
October 01, 2013 California Archives Month
April 11, 2013 SCA Annual General Meeting
April 03, 2013 WAI Local Arrangements Online Registration
December 04, 2012 Describing Archives from Start to Finish
November 08, 2012 Accessioning Born-Digital Materials Workshop
March 30, 2012 DIY Usability Testing Workshop
January 20, 2012 Introduction to Electronic Records
September 30, 2011 Modeling & Constructing Digital Objects Workshop
April 27, 2011 SCA Annual General Meeting
April 18, 2011 SCA election ballots due
April 01, 2011 Silent Auction donations due
April 01, 2011 WAI application due
March 10, 2011 Mink Scholarship application due
March 07, 2011 SCA Workshop - South
October 31, 2010 AGM 2011 Session Proposals Due October 31
October 20, 2010 SCA Fall Workshop - South
October 13, 2010 SCA Fall Workshop - North
August 06, 2010 SCA Summer Newsletter - Copy Deadline
June 20, 2010 Western Archives Institute



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