The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) is delighted to
offer the following workshops this fall in Morristown, New Jersey. These
workshops will benefit archivists, librarians, museum curators, and
anyone in the cultural resource management field. The workshops will be
held on October 26, 2006 at the Westin Governor Morris.
Workshop 1:
Everyone Is Encoding but Me!! Encoded Archival Description and Archival
Descriptive Standards
Instructor: Thomas J. Frusciano, University Archivist, Rutgers University
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Registration limited to 25 participants.
Cost: $60
This workshop, drawn from information presented during the instructor's
semester-long course in Advanced Archival Description at New York
University, will concentrate on the role of standards in describing
archives. The instructor will present an approach that ensures that
descriptive products serve current needs and continue to be useful into
the future. The main focus will be on how and why archivists use Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) for the purpose of creating and sharing
finding aids to historical records. The workshop will address the
archival standards, including DACS, and technical requirements and tools
for implementing EAD as a component of archival description.
Workshop 2:
Visual and Sound Materials: Acquisition, Preservation, and Access
Instructors: Thomas Connors and Chuck Howell, Broadcasting Archives,
University of Maryland
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Registration limited to 25 participants.
Cost: $60
Archivists and special collections curators are increasingly faced with
acquiring collections with a significant audiovisual component. Deciding
whether to accession such collections can be a daunting task: What
exactly are the formats being offered? What are the preservation
options? What playback equipment is required for access? What are the
problems and pitfalls of digital transfer? This workshop offers a
systematic analysis of audiovisual materials in terms of physical and
mechanical features, acquisition and appraisal issues, and preservation
and access considerations. A wide range of recorded sound and moving
image formats will be examined. Participants will come away from this
workshop able to make informed decisions on what audiovisual materials
to acquire and, once acquired, how to manage those materials over time.
Workshop 3:
From Daguerreotype to Digital: Managing Your Photograph Collections
Instructor: Erika Gorder, Associate University Archivist, Rutgers University
1:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Registration limited to 25 participants.
Cost: $40
This half-day introductory workshop combines professional theory with a
variety of real-world practical examples to help archivists develop
photographic management programs suitable for archival collections of
any size. With a focus on preservation and access, the topics covered
include an overview of photographic materials and processes; environment
and storage; handling and housing; organization, arrangement and
description; reproduction and reformatting; collection maintenance; and
exhibitions and special projects. Particular consideration will be given
to the topics of digitization for access, organizing digital images, and
rights management. Workshop participants will gain a flexible working
knowledge of photographs and their management that then can be applied
to fit the specific needs of individual repositories.
Workshop 4:
Building Digital Collections
Instructors: Greg Colati, Digital Initiatives Coordinator, University of
Denver; and Jessica Branco, National Museum of American History
9:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Registration limited to 40 participants.
SAA members: $145 early; after 9/26 $195
Non members: $215 early; after 9/26 $265
Are you responsible for planning and implementing digitization projects
at the beginning and intermediate level? Before you begin, it is
important to understand the concepts and strategies that are essential
to successful implementation of your collection development or access
project. Rather than a technical how-to, this seminar provides an
overview of basic decisions you must make before you start and while you
are developing digital collections and a digital collection repository
program. You’ll discuss “Why digitize? What to digitize? How to
digitize? Who should do the digitizing? and What next?” Case studies,
real-world examples, and citations to published resources are presented
in a format that allows time for questions, interaction, and discussion.
Note: This is a Society of American Archivists Workshop. Please register
directly with the SAA online
http://www.archivists.org/prof-education/workshop-detail.asp?id=1921 and
enter "MARAC" into the promotional space in the online registration
form. For questions or a hard copy of the registration form, please
contact the SAA at [log in to unmask] or 312-922-0140.
The workshops will be held on October 26, 2006 at the Westin Governor
Morris hotel. For directions, please see the hotel Web site
http://www.westingovernormorris.com To register for Workshops 1, 2 and
3, please use the form on the MARAC Web site
http://www.lib.umd.edu/MARAC/conferences/2006/fall06/fall2006registration.pdf
For more information, please contact Fernanda Perrone, Chair, MARAC
Education
Committee at [log in to unmask] or (732) 932-7006 x 363.
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Fernanda Helen Perrone, D. Phil.
Archivist and Head, Exhibitions Program
Curator, William Elliot Griffis Collection
Special Collections and University Archives
Rutgers University Libraries
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163
732 932-7006 x363 FAX: 732 932-7012
email: [log in to unmask]
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