We all know that we should use “strong” passwords, keep software updated, and follow other basic precautions while online. However, understanding the reasons behind these rules is critical in helping us to convince ourselves and others that the extra work is indeed worth it. This session will cover securing you and your archives’ data, network, website, and computers. Discussion will include security myths, passwords, tracking, malware, and will cover a range of tools and techniques.
Since 2004, Archiving has been bringing together an international community of technical experts, managers, practitioners, and academics from cultural heritage institutions, universities, and commercial enterprises, to explore and discuss state-of-the-art imaging, digitization, preservation, and access for 2D, 3D, and AV materials, including documents, manuscripts, photographs, bound volumes, paintings, videos, and born-digital works.
The interdisciplinary focus of the conference creates a rich environment for information exchange. In addition to presenting the latest research results on digitization and curation, Archiving investigates new technologies, strategies, and policies, as well as reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field and explores different platforms and ways of visualizing data, allowing for deeper connections with collections.
Join us in Rome, Italy for the 2025 FIAT/IFTA World Conference, hosted by Cinecittà Luce.
This dynamic event will delve into the ever-evolving landscape of media preservation, acquisition, and archiving, exploring the challenges and innovations shaping the future.
The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa invite you to participate in the 56th annual IASA conference from 8-11 September 2025 at the East-West Center, Imin International Conference Center.
Our goal in this conference is to focus on how climate change transforms landscapes and challenges cultural identities.
We are thrilled to announce that the ICA will host its 2025 Congress in the vibrant city of Barcelona, from 27-30 October 2025! This exciting event will be a collaborative effort between the ICA, the Ajuntament de Barcelona, the Disputació Barcelona, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Government of Spain Ministry of Culture and the Associació de Professionals de l’Arxivística i la Gestió de Documents de Catalunya.
As we prepare for this momentous occasion, we are eager to work closely with our colleagues in Catalonia to curate a dynamic and engaging programme that addresses the pressing issues facing archives and records management today and in the future.
In these uncertain times, when the integrity of records, historical truth, and the professionals dedicated to preserving them are increasingly challenged, our work has never been more essential. The 2025 NAGARA Annual Conference is more than an event - it is a gathering of minds, a community of support, and a movement toward a stronger future for government archives, records, and information management.
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Since 2007, this distinguished symposium has provided an essential forum for domain experts to share insights and address pressing challenges in digital content management.
This year's focused, single-track programming features speakers from world-renowned institutions including MoMA, Getty, the Library of Congress, The Huntington, and Yale University. Attendees will gain practical insights on enhancing access, streamlining workflows, maintaining content provenance, and ensuring long-term preservation of digital collections.
The 2025 AASLH Annual Conference, in partnership with Ohio Local History Alliance, will take place as the history field makes the final preparations to kickoff off the 250th commemoration of the founding of the United States. The 2025 conference theme, inspired by AASLH’s Making History at 250: The Field Guide for Semiquincentennial, is an opportunity to broadly explore one of the guide’s themes, The American Experiment. For many in the American colonies in 1776, independence from Britain represented a “leap into the dark” into an unknown future. The leaders of the founding era did not have all the answers. Though their innovations of representative democracy and rights-based constitutionalism were transformative, they knew the nation was a revolutionary experiment. Like many experiments, the United States has had many fits, starts, shortcomings, and outright failures. Indigenous dispossession and chattel slavery, Jim Crow and segregation, systemic racism, and many others. Yet, with ea
Explore how artificial intelligence can revolutionize libraries by enhancing accessibility, streamlining operations, and fostering community connections. In this session, Brian Pichman will share innovative AI applications tailored for libraries, focusing on open and transparent solutions that empower both public and academic institutions. Discover strategies for integrating AI technologies in marketing, user interaction, and information dissemination, ensuring libraries remain at the forefront of knowledge and technology in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. This webinar was previously presented in-person as a session at the 2024 Core Forum. We are hosting this webinar, with the session adapted and presented live as a virtual event, to extend its reach.
Preservica is pleased to sponsor the Information and Records Management Society Conference - 2025 at the Birmingham Metropole this 18-20 May, 2025
This important annual gathering is an essential event for information professionals across the UK, brought to you by the IRMS to provide an independent perspective on key challenges.
This course explores the interplay between books as physical objects and their digital counterparts. The materials focused on will include Western manuscripts and printed books up to 1600, and non-Western (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Southeast Asian) manuscripts through the twentieth century, drawing on the strengths of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts. The course is designed for students who are curious about how digitization is reshaping the study of early books.
Amid rapid societal and technological transformations and historic elections worldwide, ACH fosters dialogue, spaces, and solidarity on equity and justice across local, transborder, and global contexts. ACH 2025 underscores the importance of addressing societal challenges in the digital humanities and beyond, such as racial and gender discrimination, while also highlighting the ramifications of computing and environmental crises. Join us in navigating diverse political milieus and shaping a virtual conference that is just and inclusive.
ACH 2025 values process- and relationship-oriented modes of working over the end result, fostering hope-making, and we seek to prioritize proposals that focus on care, community, and collaboration in diverse contexts. We are especially interested in receiving proposals from participants with a range of expertise and a variety of roles, including alt-ac positions, employment outside of higher education, and graduate and undergraduate students. We further
89th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists
As archivists, records managers, information professionals, and cultural heritage workers, we are charged with making an impact through our work. We are compelled to acknowledge a world where professional concerns are amplified by political, social, and environmental forces that shape how we work and will work in the future. The challenge, then, is to adjust practices, question our assumptions, and seek partnerships to ensure what we do counts in the future.
Continued institutional investment in digital archives is predicated on their sustained access and use. Researchers and staff connect with the archives through interfaces. Interfaces bring together design decisions and interaction opportunities. The User Experience (UX) Design field has developed methods and tools that have the potential to enhance the archive’s ability to connect its services and collections to designated communities.
Media archives present a unique and invaluable world of historical and cultural content captured on an array of aging and obsolete audio, video, and film formats that present unique preservation challenges. Unlike paper, audiovisual media has a very limited lifespan and requires specialized knowledge to safely and accurately evaluate, describe, conserve, replay, and reformat it for preservation and access.
This class will be particularly helpful for collectors, students, librarians, and archivists who plan to or are currently working with media in their collections, but who are stymied by the lack of opportunities to gain the education and experience required to facilitate a coordinated or comprehensive response to unlock their collections’ content and ensure its longevity.
The International Council on Archives (ICA) is thrilled to announce the theme for International Archives Week 2025 (IAW2025), set to take place from 9 to 13 June: #ArchivesAreAccessible: Archives for Everyone. Chosen through a survey completed by more than 300 participants, this theme highlights the critical role accessibility plays in the digital transformation of archives and their ability to reach a global audience.
As archives evolve in the digital age, the ability to provide greater access to archival content is more important than ever. This year’s theme will celebrate how archives around the world are embracing new technologies to open up their collections, making it easier for people to engage with history, culture, and knowledge. Whether through digital platforms, enhanced user interfaces, or innovative preservation techniques, the goal is to ensure that archives are available to all, regardless of geographical location or physical limitations.
Do you know the most important standards a digital archivist needs to know? What are the options, which ones apply to your work, what are the benefits, and what is practical for your particular situation? Get started with this foundational course on standards as a stepping stone to courses that focus on and/or incorporate specific standards for particular archival functions and the applications of those standards, including accession, arrangement and description, access, preservation, and outreach.
For years, archives have focused on creating workflows for the ingest and preservation of born-digital records. Although we have become increasingly comfortable with the SIPs and AIPs of the OAIS model, many of us still struggle with the DIPs and proving access to those materials. This course will focus on the underlying policy consideration in play when providing access to born-digital records as well as provide an overview of methods and tools for providing appropriate access. The course will also demonstrate multiple tools for identifying and redacting sensitive or protected information from born-digital records. This course is primarily focused on born-digital records and will not deal with best practices for digitization projects.
This course covers copyright legal issues specific to archives of digital material. You'll examine the impact of electronic technologies on the long-held law and tenets of copyright, including digital rights management and acquiring and advising on the use of rights in records. You’ll look at the basic text of relevant federal statutes and significant case law as well as examine case studies. A very brief review of copyright essentials will be provided to ground the discussion. The focus of the day will be on how to think through and identify options for resolving the most commonly encountered copyright issues.
The Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference (SMIRC) is an opportunity for Institutional Repository (IR) managers to come together and learn about new ideas and strategies that their colleagues are using at their institution to meet the needs of their faculty, staff, and students. It is also a chance for institutions that do not currently have an IR to discover the benefits that an IR can offer in terms of promoting the scholarship and research of their university.
SMIRC consists of speakers, panel discussions, and workshops that will address topics ranging from the basics of IRs to new ideas for longtime IR managers. The presentations will also include speakers who use a variety of different IR platforms, thus allowing attendees to compare the different options that are available to them.
This conference marks a pivotal step in our journey toward meeting the goals outlined in our mission, vision, and values. While we recognize some things will be missed, this approach allows us to proactively explore new ways of meeting the evolving needs of our diverse community. It also provides us opportunities to reach beyond our immediate membership. Our theme, Together: Activating Community, encapsulates what we aim to achieve—not just during this conference, but in our ongoing work.
This year, we are embracing technology in new and innovative approaches to the conference programming to foster inclusivity, ensuring that members of our community can more fully participate, regardless of geographical location or budgetary constraints. By moving to a virtual format, we are not only expanding access, but also promoting financial stability, both for our members and the organization as a whole. This shift aligns with our strategic goals, as we continue to build more resilience and a
We often are told ‘learn to code’ but not given a clear purpose or direction to realize this goal. This is especially true for workers in the Library field. This course will attempt to address this challenge by providing a great introduction to data science aimed at all learners. Participants will be introduced to the Python programming language and how it can be used to analyize data. This includes organizing and writing code in Jupyter Notebooks, manipulating data with the Pandas, visualizing data with the Matplotlib, and making predictions with data using the scikit-learn library. No previous programming experience is required or expected. Exercises will be drawn from topics that resonate with the daily work of Librarians and those in related fields. For example, participants will learn how to analyze a quantity of Sci Hub usage data, and will examine DOI data harvested from the Crossref API. No software installation will be required to participate in this class; all programming wor
Websites are accessible when all visitors — regardless of abilities or impairments — can access the presented information. The broad term web accessibility refers to a series of international standards that define website usability. Understand the fundamentals of web accessibility and the regulations, laws, and standards surrounding accessibility design. Utilize tools and technologies for better design and best practices for content development.
This six-week online course introduces students to the breadth of considerations, standards and skills needed to successfully launch and manage a digital library program. The course will provide opportunity for hands-on activities to develop critical thinking and decision-making skills within the context of a digital library.
This six-week online course introduces students to the breadth of considerations, standards and skills needed to successfully launch and manage a digital library program. The course will provide opportunity for hands-on activities to develop critical thinking and decision-making skills within the context of a digital library.
This six-week online course introduces students to the breadth of considerations, standards and skills needed to successfully launch and manage a digital library program. The course will provide opportunity for hands-on activities to develop critical thinking and decision-making skills within the context of a digital library.
With a glut of online information, see how to curate and organize all your online resources using several digital tools. Streamline your digital library for teachers and students, and integrate all your favorite Google and design tools to improve productivity and collaboration, while showcasing good digital citizenship.
This informative introduction to Hyku, the powerful open-source repository solution tailored for small- to medium-sized libraries, will demonstrate its uses as both an institutional repository and a digital repository for cultural heritage items, open educational resources, and theses and dissertations. Hyku offers intuitive upload processes and robust bulk import/export capabilities. Its shared search functionality across multiple Hyku libraries can enhance discoverability and collaboration. In addition to a review of Hyku's features, this session will highlight real-world use cases and ongoing development efforts, equipping libraries with the knowledge to leverage this tool for current needs. Take advantage of this opportunity to explore how Hyku can transform your library's digital repository management!
You have robots in the library, now what? Within our makerspaces, robots provide opportunities for learners to tinker and make. What if they can be used to impact learning in ways that provide curricular relevance? Join three librarians as they demonstrate how various robots- Edison, Bee-bot, Dash and Sphero, can be used to enhance math, science and ELA in grades K-6. Attendees gain tips and lesson ideas and will enjoy hands-on experience in coding and uploading their own programs to the robots.
As your school's expert on information literacy, you already have more tools for understanding data privacy than most educators. That might sound scary, but don't be afraid. In this session we will look at the limits of FERPA and COPPA for protecting student data. We will go over what to look for in your district/school policy, and discuss strategies for collaborating with administration and IT to make sure software is evaluated with students' interests in mind. Are you up for the challenge?
This webinar explores how AI-enabled search and Open AI will change how school librarians craft library instruction and work with faculty and students. Presented by the AASL Independent Schools Section.
If you aren’t thinking about your site’s accessibility, you should be. Web Accessibility is not just a trend—more and more it is a legal requirement. In this webinar, library website expert Laura Solomon will take you through the principles of Web Accessibility, the library’s obligations around this issue, and best practices for implementing changes.
What better way to market your library program than empowering users to virtually experience all it has to offer 24/7? Increase patron confidence and comfort when browsing your library through an interactive 3-D virtual tour, embedding audio, video, helpful links, and even surveys and online chats so that all readers - avid, occasional, struggling, reluctant - can be fully immersed in the library experience.
Copyright Crash Course for Museums and Memory Institutions is an AASLH Continuing Education recorded webinar. This webinar is about museum-focused overview of copyright law. This event is presented by Walter G. Lehmann. In this webinar, museum attorney Walter G. Lehmann will provide a practical, museum-focused overview of copyright law including the important exception for fair use. Museums, including historical societies and other memory institutions, create and use intellectual property every day. A basic understanding of copyright law is essential to protect your organization’s rights and those of other creators, further your organization’s mission, and avoid disputes that could harm its reputation.
Museums and indigenous communities are increasingly seeking to engage in collaborative working relationships. However, resources to help guide this work have been lacking. In response to this need, the Guidelines for Collaboration (www.guidelinesforcollaboration.info) was developed over a period of several years with the participation of over 50 Native and non-Native museum professionals, scholars, and artists.
With the Guidelines as the main reference, this course will walk participants through the process of building positive foundations of mutual respect and trust, essential to collaborative work. Topics will be co-presented by a diverse group of museum professionals and artists experienced in collaborative museum work. Further, course participants will learn how to adapt the Guidelines to their own work.