Category Archives: Workshops

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
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Peter passed along to me this notice of a “Primary Source Teacher
Workshop.” It takes place in Morristown, NJ on October 14th, and is
“designed to familiarize educators with our educational program, Primary
Source Seminar, and to provide teachers with resources and valuable
training in primary source use in the classroom.” Those of you
interested in teaching history may want to attend.

http://www.primarysourceseminar.blogspot.com/

–
Amanda L. French, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scholar, Digital Curriculum Specialist
Archives and Public History
New York University
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South #507
New York, NY 10012

TEL: 212-998-8638
FAX: 212-995-4017
AIM: habitrailgirl
amanda.french@nyu.edu
http://amandafrench.net
http://twitter.com/amandafrench

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To ART Membership:

Please note the correction to the below announcement – the workshop is on Tuesday October 13th, not Friday.

Thank you,

ART Education Committee

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Membership NYART wrote:

NYART Membership:

The Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York (ART) is glad to announce that it is collaborating with the Society of American Archivists to host the full-day workshop Implementing “More Product, Less Process” at the American Numismatic Society on October 13, 2009.

Implementing “More Product, Less Process”

Workshop Description

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. This array of topics is addressed through lecture, case studies, and group discussion.

Upon completing this workshop, you’ll be able to:

§ Understand the concepts and arguments outlined in “More Product, Less Process;”
§ Implement strategies for increasing processing rates in a variety of institutions;
§ Apply techniques for managing efficient processing programs, including developing processing plans, policies, and benchmarks;

§ Understand how descriptive standards such as DACS can assist in the creation of descriptive records that adhere to “minimum” requirements and assist in the reuse of data in a variety of outputs; and

§ Develop strategies for integrating processing with other archival functions, particularly accessioning.

Who should attend? Archivists who process archival collections or manage archival processing programs and administrators interested in processing procedures within their repositories (introductory to intermediate levels).

Attendance is limited to 30.

Workshop Date & Time:

T,uesday, Oct 13, 2009

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Place:

American Numismatic Society
75 Varick Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10013

Early-Bird Registration Deadline: September 17, 2009

Workshop Registration and Fee:

Fees: Early-Bird / Regular

SAA Member $185 / $285

Employees of Member Institutions $210 / $260

Nonmember $235 / $285

*ARTNY member discount

SAA will provide a $25 discount off the non-member rate for Archivists Roundtable of New York (ARTNY). Enter “MPLPNY09″ into the promotional

code on the online registration form and the discount will be activated.

The link to register via the SAA site is:

http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/events/170.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=170&Time=848208930&SessionID=6554218y942w60iu98619gnbk91n23j2n8yvkh4lfi9l78688000k14u6005b7zf.

**Please contact Cynthia Tobar, ART Education Coordinator, at education@nycarchivists.org if you have any questions.

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

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Archives and Records Management Seminar

October 14, 2009

Four Points by Sheraton, 800 East Park Dr, Harrisburg PA. 17111

The Power of Public Records

Registration Cost reduced! Only $40!

State Employee? Affected by the Budget Impasse? We’ll credit you to attend—pay nothing until the budget passes.

If we do not get enough registrations, we may have to cancel—so please register NOW!

Note: No paper registrations are being mailed this year, register online at

www.pabookstore.com (under Event Registration)

r request a downloadable form from jostahlman@state.pa.us or call 717-772-3257

8:00—8:45 Registration and Refreshments

8:45—9:00am Welcoming Remarks

David Haury, PhD, State Archivist and President, CoSA

Barbara Franco, PHMC Executive Director

9:00—10:00am Plenary Session:

• Caring for Records in a Depressed Economy

How can we cope in these tough times? What does this mean for archivists and records keepers? Join us for Ms Roe’s perspective on helping you soldier on

Speaker: Kathleen Roe, New York State Archives

10:00—10:30am Break—Visit the Vendors

10:30—12:15pm Session:

• Pennsylvania’s Right to Know Law, Plus One

It’s been almost a year since the Right to Know law went into effect. How’s it going? What are the successes and the challenges? Join us for an exciting panel with differing perspectives as they assess the new law’s impact.

Speakers: Terry Mutchler, Commonwealth Office of

Open Records, Executive Director (scheduled)

Andrea Bowman, Deputy General Counsel, Governor’s Office of General Counsel

Bruce Foreman, Partner, Foreman & Caraciolo

Terry Mutchler’s participation is tentative. If she cannot attend, Corinna Wilson, ChiefCounsel, Pennsylvania Office of Open Records, will substitute.

Workshop:

• Archives Without Tears: The Basics for Historical Records Repositories

Got Archives? Don’t know what to do? Join Jerry Ellis as he covers the basics to help you along.

Speaker: Jerry Ellis, Pennsylvania State Archives

12:15pm—1:30pm Lunch

1:30—2:45pm Concurrent Sessions:

• Web 2.0: Overview and Practical Social Networking Applications

An overview of the most popular Web 2.0 tools and applications with discussion of their relevance to archives and historical society outreach programming.

Speaker: Kate Theimer, ArchivesNext
• Principles of Records Management

A look at basic records management principles and the benefits that can be achieved by implementing them.

Speaker: James Frazier, Delaware State Archives

Workshop:

• Caring for Videotape and other Magnetic Media

The history of videotape, proper storage and preservation, reformatting, and resources will be reviewed.

Speaker: Sam Verga of Vidipax

2:45—3:00pm Break—Visit the Vendors!

3:00—4:15pm Concurrent Sessions:

• Archival Management Software: Archivists’ Toolkit and Archon

And you thought “archon” was the ancient Greek word for “ruler!” These two new types of software for intellectual control and managing your collections will be presented.

Speakers:

Holly Mengel, PASCL

Jesse Teitelbaum, PA House of Representatives Archives

• Enterprise Content Management

IBM will discuss the latest in Enterprise Content Management.

Speaker: To be announced

• Workshop Part II: Caring for Videotape and other Magnetic Media

Speaker: Sam Verga, Vidipax

New This Year!!! Afternoon Exhibitor Presentations (held concurrent to sessions)

Time Vendor Representative

1:30—1:50 Crowley To be announced

2:00—2:20 Ancestry. Com Al Viera

2:30—2:50 E-Image Data Jeff Middleton

3:00—3:20 PHMC Publications Ted Walke

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

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Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html Continue reading →

Using Omeka to Build Digital Collections for Libraries and Archives

Date: Friday September 11, 2009

Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Location: METRO, 57 E. 11 St, New York , NY 10003

Registration fees: $50 for METRO and NY-ART members. To receive your discount, enter ART2009 and click “Apply Class Code.”

Register online here: http://bit.ly/28Bzbh

Description:

The Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York (ART) is collaborating with METRO to host this full-day workshop on Omeka, a free and open source collections based, web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation.

This workshop will introduce Omeka, provide a brief background on developing the software, show examples of different types of websites created with Omeka and teach participants how to use Omeka to build a website for your institution. Topics will include data entry, data migration, using/developing Themes, and using/developing plugins.

By the end of the program, participants will:

· Understand how to install Omeka, and manage content and enter Collections data in Omeka
· Install and modify public themes
· Install and manage plugins

Presenter:

Jeremy Boggs is the Creative Lead at CHNM and Omeka’s Project Manager. In addition to actually being a web designer, he is writing a dissertation on the history of web design and plans to use Omeka to collect and share stories and files from web designers past and present.

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

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