Reminder! The application deadline for the 2006 Western Archives Institute is March 15, 2006.
The 20th annual Western Archives Institute will be held at San Diego State University in San Diego, California, June 18-30, 2006. This intensive, two-week program provides integrated instruction in basic archival practices to individuals with a variety of goals, including those whose jobs require a fundamental understanding of archival skills, but have little or no previous archives education; those who have expanding responsibility for archival materials; those who are practicing archivists but have not received formal instruction; and those who demonstrate a commitment to an archival career.
Dr. Elizabeth H. Dow will be the principal faculty member for WAI 2006. Dr. Dow is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University, where she created the archives specialization and teaches the archives program full-time. She obtained the grant funds to establish the Southeast Archives Education Collaborative, now a formal, ongoing arrangement for sharing archives faculty and students among five universities in five states and two time zones. She regularly teaches courses as part of the collaborative. Before joining LSU, she worked in Special Collections at the University of Vermont where her duties included developing an electronic publishing and database center to provide web-based intellectual access to historical documents. She was a Project Archivist for the Vermont State Archives and for the Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont. She served on the Vermont State Historical Records Advisory Board and taught a number of local community-based workshops. Dow is the author of Creating EAD-Compatible Finding Guides on Paper and articles about Encoded Archival Description. She received her Ph.D. in Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh.
The program will feature site visits to historical records repositories and a diverse curriculum that includes history and development of the profession, theory and terminology, records management, appraisal, arrangement, description, manuscripts acquisition, archives and the law, photographs, preservation administration, reference and access, outreach programs, and managing archival programs and institutions.
Tuition for the program is $650 and includes a selection of archival publications. Housing and meal plans are available at additional cost. Admission is by application only and enrollment is limited. The application deadline for the 20th Western Archives Institute is March 15, 2006. 
The application package is currently available on the California State Archives' website at http://www.ss.ca.gov/archives/archives.htm and on the Society of California Archivists' website at http://www.calarchivists.org under "Western Archives Institute."
For additional information contact: 
Administrator, Western Archives Institute
1020 O Street
Sacramento, CA  95814
T: 916/653-7715  FAX: 916/653-7134
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The Western Archives Institute is co-sponsored by the Society of California Archivists, the California State Archives and San Diego State University Library and Information Access.

 


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