Archives and Public History Digital

General Help

• Links

  Professional associations, NYU departments and organizations, tech help, blogs in archives and public history, internship sites, and more.

• Outside Courses

  Recommended courses in other schools and programs at NYU, including (for instance) courses in History, Museum Studies, Moving Image Archiving, Interactive Telecommunications.

Events and Organizations

• NYU Society of American Archivists Student Chapter

  A brand-new student chapter of SAA (founded 2009) for NYU students concentrating in or interested in archives.

• Archives and Public History Institute

  The Archives and Public History Institute is a day-long orientation and instruction session for entering graduate students. The first APH Institute was held September 11, 2009.

• Digital Skills Workshops

  Links to workshop materials for the Spring 2009 workshop series “Digital Skills for Historians.”

• Discussing the Archive: Ideas, Practices, Institutions

An event series in Spring 2010 exploring interdisciplinary approaches to the archive as concept and practice.

Technology

• Omeka Installation

  A test installation of the archival web publishing system Omeka.

• Archives and Public History Wiki

  A place for NYU Archives and Public History faculty and students to create and edit wiki pages.

• Archives and Public History Zotero Group

  This public bibliography is a place for faculty and students in the program to share readings. To join the group, first create an account on zotero.org and log in to the site, then visit the link above and click “Join Group.” To add items to the group, download Zotero 2.0 or above.

• RefWorks Shared Folders for New York University

  This is a web space for users of NYU’s licensed version of RefWorks to share bibliographic references; the service is called RefShare.