Seminar - ARMA

The Greater Dayton Chapter of ARMA, International would like to invite you to attend our 2013 Spring Seminar.

Date: June 17, 2013
Location: Wright State University Nutter Center, Berry Room
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $85.00 (Meals & Snacks Included)

This year we have brought together three excellent speakers:


  *   Galina Datskovsky, Ph.D, CRM (Autonomy): Cloud Computing & Information Governance
  *   Kurt Walk, CBCP (LexisNexis): Disaster Recovery, Decommissioning, & Business Continuity
  *   Andy Hoffman (Sogeti USA): Business Value of Records Management & Organizational Change

*Approved for 5 ICRM Credits & 5 IIMC Hours (.8 CMC Experience Points & .8 MMC Advances Education Points)


Deadline for registration is June 13, 2013. For more information and to register, please visit our blog at: http://greaterdaytonarma.wordpress.com

FREE workshop - Creating and Funding Preservation Projects To Enhance Collection Care

Creating and Funding Preservation Projects To Enhance Collection Care

Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon, August 1, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00
p.m.
Sponsored by Western States & Territories Preservation Assistance Service
(WESTPAS) and the Oregon Historical Society

Workshop instructor:Barclay Ogden, Preservation Department Head, University
of California, Berkeley
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Do you want to get a preservation grant to take care of your collections?
Many institutions have used grant-funded projects to enhance the level of
care they can provide for their collections, and sometimes even to jump
start their preservation programs.

"Creating and Funding Preservation Projects to Enhance Collection Care" is
a one-day workshop that begins with identifying and setting priorities
among collection needs. With a clear sense of needs, the second part of the
workshop reviews sources of grant funding available to your institution.
The third part of the workshop addresses the key preservation questions
asked on grant applications - participants answer the questions on behalf
of their institutions, building the elements of a proposal for their own
collection. The workshop emphasizes working collaboratively with colleagues
to develop and receive feedback on project proposals.

By the end of the workshop day, participants will have:
* Outlined a preservation project proposal specific to their institution
* Identified possible funding sources
* Tested their ideas with other workshop participants

Who should attend: Administrators and staff responsible for care of the
collection in all types of libraries, museums and archives, with an
emphasis on small-to-medium sized institutions without preservation grant
writing experience. By registering for the workshop, the institution
commits to supporting the attendee(s) to achieve the workshop's goals to
develop and submit proposals for preservation projects to enhance
collection care. When possible, TWO attendees from an institution should
attend so they can work together on project development.


Cost: No charge to the institution. WESTPAS is funded in part by the
National Endowment for the Humanities.

Registration: Pre-registration required. Register online at: WESTPAS
workshop
http://tiny.cc/ZePOL

For registration assistance contact: Alexandra Gingerich gingerich at
plsinfo.org <http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/preservenw>
For general & content information contact Kristen Kern kernk@pdx.edu

FREE webinars - Connectingt o Collections

We're busy next week with three new webinars that we hope you'll join us for. Monday will kick off our two-part series, WebWise Reprise, based on the IMLS WebWise 2013 Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Both webinars will feature how cultural institutions are using digital images to increase and improve access to their collections. Also next week is the webinar "Exercising Your Disaster Response Plan" with Julie Page. In this 90-minute webinar, we'll discuss techniques for testing your emergency response plan and training your staff. While this is a follow-up to the March course Protecting Your Collections: Writing a Disaster Response Plan, all are welcome to participate. See the full schedule and descriptions below.

For all three webinars, advanced registration is not required nor is membership to the Online Community. Simply click on the green Access Meeting Room button on the right-hand side of the home page. Once there, enter your name and location and click enter. If you’re having difficulty, please take a look at our tech check page. 

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Monday, June 3, 2013, 2:00-3:30 p.m. (EDT)
WebWise Reprise: Using Collections Images in Online Exhibits
Speaker: Shalimar White,  Manager of the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC
Ms. White will discuss making digital images of Dumbarton Oaks’ Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection available through an online exhibit using Omeka. She will talk about the process, experience, and lessons learned from this project. She will also discuss how the project involved undergraduate and graduate interns.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 2:00-3:30 p.m. (EDT)
Exercising Your Disaster Response Plan
Speaker: Julie Page, co-coordinator of both the California Preservation Program and the Western States and Territories Preservation Assistance Service (WESTPAS)

Conducting drills and exercises of your institution’s response plan is critical for testing procedures, identifying problems, and discussing solutions. Ms. Page will discuss techniques for testing your plan and training your staff.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 2:00-3:30 p.m. EDT
WebWise Reprise: Using Collections Images in Educational Materials
Speaker: Suzi Hunn Gran, Curriculum Specialist, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN and Shana Crosson, Web Content Manager, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN

Ms. Gran and Ms. Crosson will discuss how the Northern Lights Minnesota Social Studies Curriculum textbook and iPad App features the Minnesota Historical Society collections and how others can use digital images creatively and interactively in educational programming. She will review how the historical society selected content to meet state social studies standards and share insights on how K-12 education is using technology in the classroom.

Workshop - Environmental Management: Stewardship & Sustainability

Learn new approaches to controlling environmental conditions. Low-cost and no-cost solutions will be addressed, as well as options for buildings with little or no environmental controls. Smaller, mid-sized, and large institutions alike will all benefit from this educational program in Harrisburg, PA.
Environmental Management: Stewardship & Sustainability
Registration Deadline extended - June 11th, 2013!
Prior participants at this program have said ...

"One of the most practical, relevant trainings I have ever attended."
"This was the perfect overview with the right (non‐threatening) professionals. You seem to have a great sensitivity of your clients and the presenters. A nice mix of scientific info, practice, and hands‐on approach."
"This was insightful - I hadn't realized all that needs to be considered whenthinking about environmental management - good overview."
LOCATION, DATE, & TIME
Location: The State Museum of Pennsylvania
              300 North Street
              Harrisburg, PA 17120
              (717)787-4980
              www.statemuseumpa.org

When: Tuesday, June 18th
            8:15am – 8:45am Refreshments
            8:45am – 4:30pm Program
REGISTRATION & FEES
Registration, secure credit card payment, and additional program information are available on our website at: http://www.cvent.com/d/2cqfpf 

Registration Fee:
$60 per person in Pennsylvania institutions
$90 per person in out-of-state institutions
ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Creating stable environmental conditions is the most significant step an institution can take for the long-term preservation of the collections materials under its stewardship.  While most preservation actions affect single items or groups of items, environmental conditions affect entire collections.

Though providing stable environmental conditions is a goal for most archives, museums, and libraries, in actuality it can be very difficult to achieve ideal specifications.  In addition to econo mic limitations faced by many institutions, collections are often housed in historic structures, in buildings with aging systems, or in structures whose designs make environmental management difficult.

This one day program will explore new approaches to controlling environmental conditions in cultural institutions.  Leading experts in the field will present physically and financially feasible environmental control strategies to help institutions preserve collections materials for the long-term.

Topics covered will include:

  •  The Collections Environment

 •  Understanding the Building/Climate Relat ionship

 •  New Approaches and Best Practices for Environmental Control

 •  Environmental Monitoring and Data Analysis

 •  Practical Approaches for Environmental Management in Historic Structures

This program is intended for staff of cultural heritage organizations responsible for monitoring and managing environmental conditions for collections, including registrars, facilities managers, archivists, librarians, curators, collections managers, and stewards of historic house museums.  Even staff members or volunteers without direct influence over environmental conditions at an organiza tion can benefit from the information presented.

SPEAKERS

Michael C. Henry PE, AIA, Principal Engineer/Architect,Watson & Henry Associates

Richard L. Kerschner, Director of Preservation and Conservation, Shelburne Museum

James M. Reilly, Director, Image Permanence Institute

Ample time for Q & A with speakers will be i ncluded!
QUESTIONS? Call 215-545-0613 or email pso@ccaha.org

Environmental Management: Stewardship & Sustainability is part of Save Pennsylvania’s Past, a statewide effort to preserve the millions of objects and historic artifacts that shape the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s history and define our nation. Save Pennsylvania’s Past is an initiative led by CCAHA in partnership with the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, PA Museums, and LYRASIS. The project is supported by an Institute of Museum and Library Services Connecting to Collections Statewide Implementation Grant, by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and by the Arthur Ross Foundation, Inc.

CFP - Women's Archives Symposium

Call for Speakers:



The Organizing Committee of the Women's Archives Symposium to be held August 13, 2013 in New Orleans is seeking proposals (one paragraph) for our section devoted to the "Impact of Technology on Women's Archives and Collections: Born Digital, Digital Humanities, Digital Initiatives, and Social Media."



We are seeking two or three persons for a moderated panel discussion addressing cutting edge issues of technology as part of women's collections and gender studies. We are looking especially for speakers who have moved beyond "traditional" digitization projects. We would like to hear what you are doing with technology that is cool and worth sharing.



If you are interested, please see suggested topics below, and send a brief paragraph describing your interest and a c.v, to Susan Tucker, Susannah@tulane.eduSusannah@tulane.edu
> by June 1, 2013.  To see more information on the symposium, visit


http://tulane.edu/newcomb/womens-archives-womens-collections-what-does-the-future-hold.cfm



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Suggested Topics:

While the following is a broad list, we are particularly seeking participants who can speak to some of the following:



- the power of conventional structured archival metadata or other

data sets cross-walked to new platforms (including the

role of controlled vocabularies, etc. to non-archival communities);



- crowd sourcing, edit-a-thons, and other social opportunities to

engage "the public" in collecting, transcribing, or sharing women's and

gender history;



- innovative tools such as Fusion Tables, Voyant, Scripto, special features of Omeka, Google Refine, Tumblr or other products to inspire ideas about manipulation of data and the application of technology to promote access to, and exploration of, online sources;



- challenges you are experiencing in repository infrastructure and the implementation of digital projects;



- repository/academic/community collaborations supporting projects;



- skill sets required to make things happen digitally;



- issues involved with selecting content;



- problems of limited resources privileging fewer voices in the online world;



- changing descriptive practices to enable new presentations of collections and research in the digital world;



-enhancements and problems with classroom instruction and reference practices found in open access/full text searchability;



- challenges of visual literacy (reading images and non-textual content) or the inability of contemporary students to read cursive handwriting;



- barriers to researching these new presentations of collections and research;



- new partnerships between archivists and academics to build lesson plans and curricula;



- the balance of DH with the repository's other management concerns;



- comparisons of digital projects to traditional outreach through gallery

exhibitions;



- visions for new description portals and newly federated collections to discover women's history in this rapidly evolving environment.



Again, send your proposal to Susan Tucker, Susannah@tulane.eduSusannah@tulane.edu> by June 1, 2013.

CFP - Journal of Library and Information Service in Distance Learning

The Journal of Library and Information Service in Distance Learning, a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, welcomes the submission of manuscripts.

The journal is devoted to the issues and concerns of librarians and information specialists involved with distance education and delivering library resources and services to this growing community of students. 

Topics can include but are not limited to:

• Faculty/librarian cooperation and collaboration
• Information literacy
• Instructional service techniques
• Information delivery
• Reference services
• Document delivery
• Developing collections

If you are interested in submitting an article, this journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the “Guide for ScholarOne Authors” at http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/submission/ScholarOne.asp before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided at http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1533-290X or can be emailed to you directly. WLIS receives all manuscript submissions electronically via their ScholarOne Manuscripts website located at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/WLIS. ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, as well as facilitating the review process and internal communication between authors, editors and reviewers via a web-based platform. ScholarOne Manuscripts technical support can be accessed via http://scholarone.com/services/support/.

Inquiries and questions are welcome and can be sent directly to the editor, Jodi Poe, at jpoe@jsu.edu.

Please note: We accept manuscript submissions through the year; however, the deadline to have your article appear in our next issue, if accepted, is August 1, 2013. Accepted and approved manuscripts received after this date have no guarantee of being included in the next published issue.

CFP - Journal of Access Services

The Journal of Access Services covers those topics relevant to the access services in libraries and archives of all types. Access Services is the broad field and collective term of all the services that provide, facilitate, and manage the access of the clientele to the information resources acquired or made available by the libraries or archives. Access Services aims to allow easy and convenient retrieval of needed information, utilization of information resources to the fullest extent, and greatest availability of resources to each of the clientele.

The Journal of Access Services frequently covers, but is not limited to:

• stacks maintenance
• circulation services
• document delivery and interlibrary loan
• reserve reading collections
• building security and maintenance
• user area maintenance

The journal also discusses the evolution of technology that has led departments to provide access to both traditional and electronic information resources, regardless of whether they are licensed, or held locally, remotely, or consortially, and demands continuous review of means for delivering the services and the kind of services that should be provided.

SELECTED CONTENTS
• The Graying of Academic Librarians: Crisis or Revolution?, John Edge and Ravonne Green
• Ending the Turf War: Circulation, Reference, and Instruction on One Team, Ken Johnson, Susan Jennings, and Sue Hisle
• Campus Partner Collections: Expanding the Boundaries of the Library, Anne C. Elguindi, Robert Kelshian, and Alayne Mundt Sandler
• Training 2.0—Library Assistants in the Age of Information, June L. Power
• New Support for the Research Process: Desktop Delivery of Microform Content, William H. Weare JR

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the editor, Paul Sharpe, at: sharpep@umsl.edu

For more information including subscription rates and publication details, please visit http://www.tandfonline.com/WJAS

To view a FREE online sample copy, go to http://www.tandfonline.com/WJAS