Happenings

Articles + News

Drew Students Apply Digital Tools to Research via Drew University

Story+: Where Humanities Students Combine Creative Storytelling and Research via Duke Today

Documenting Slave Voyages via Emory University

Is “Fit” a Bad Fit? via American Libraries

Drew Students Apply Digital Tools to Research

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Collection + Project Highlights

The new online catalogue dedicated to the artist Frances Hodgkins is now live! The website is an online catalogue of the New Zealand expatriate artist’s known paintings, watercolours and drawings, ranging from 1886 to 1946. You can search across artworks, and relates exhibitions, people and locations. The site also includes digitised and transcribed letters written by Hodgkins, her family and friends, as well as a wide range of related photographs and documents. The catalogue will continue to be updated as new material becomes available.

The California Historical Society is pleased to announce that 4,467 slides and negatives from the Peoples Temple Publications Department Records have been digitized and are available for public viewing and research online. The photographs provide new visual documentation of Peoples Temple’s political, religious, and cultural activities, as well as daily life in Redwood Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Jonestown. This work was made possible by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). The collection was processed by project archivists Isaac Fellman and Lynda Letona and digitized by Two Cat Digital of San Anselmo. 

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Conferences, Symposiums, and Courses

OpenCon
Call for Papers
When: November 1, 2019
Where: Philadelphia, PA @ Temple University
Deadline: July 26, 2019
Submit a proposal here

NEDCC Live Webinar
Topic: Caring for Photographic Collections
When: July 25, 2019 from 2:00-4:00pm EST
Cost: $95
Learn More and Register

Library Collective – Annual Conference
When: March 11-13, 2020
Where: Knoxville, TN
Learn More

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Happenings

Scholarships + Awards

Visual Resources Association Foundation
Internship Award – Call for Applications
Deadline to apply: August 2, 2019
The award recipient for 2019-2020 will be announced on August 26, 2019.
Learn More & Apply

Digital Directions Conference
Student Scholarship – Recipient will be notified July 8, 2019
When: August 19-20, 2020
Where: Overland Park, KS
Learn More and Apply

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Collection + Project Highlights + Articles

Do Memes Change How We Remember History? via Catapult

“Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share” In this piece we begin to articulate intersections of information maintenance and care ethics in ways that are real and meaningful for information maintainers.  By “information maintainers” we mean those who manage, maintain, and preserve information systems.The contributors to this document each have varied experiences with information maintenance. We are community organizers and facilitators, archivists, repository managers, project managers, designers, librarians, researchers, grantmakers, educators and more. This invitation is directed toward occupations and roles for which we feel that an understanding of the relationship between information maintenance and an ethic of care is especially valuable. We invite you to read, react, share and engage with this potluck of ideas. Please circulate widely!

The Newberry has launched a digital archive of over 26,000 high-quality images of picture postcards produced by pioneering British company Raphael Tuck & Sons during the first half of the 20th century. Drawing on a vast archive of postcards received by the Newberry in 2016 and developed with the support of Leonard A. Lauder, the new digital collection provides users with a comprehensive body of material for investigating the ways in which British citizens formed and disseminated their perceptions of the world 100 years ago….

The USModernist® Library is the largest open digital collection of major US 20th-century architecture magazines with approximately 2.6 million downloadable pages – all free to access. Recently, USModernist Library added nearly 10,000 pages to their library. Within three weeks, they will add 50,000 more pages, and they’ve got room for more!

The SAH Data Project: Analyzing Architectural History in Higher Education. The Society of Architectural Historians has been awarded a two-year, $508,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study the status of the field of architectural history in higher education. The grant provides support for a data-gathering initiative that will gauge the health of architectural, urban and landscape history as fields of study, as well as degree programs and curricula across the higher education landscape. SAH plans to hire a postdoctoral researcher to design and manage the study to determine where, and in what ways, these fields of study are expanding, receding, changing, or holding steady and to consider the structural or cultural factors behind such trends.

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Conferences, Symposiums, and Courses

Visual Resources Association Annual Conference
Where: Baltimore, MD
When: March 24-27, 2020
Call for Proposals

Archives*Records 2019
Where: Austin, TX
When: July 31 – August 6, 2019
Early Bird registration available until July 5, 2019

Image Permanence Institute: Webinar Series 1
Topics: “Preventive Conservation and the Role of the Environment” & “Evaluating Collection Spaces”
When: July 25, 2019 and August 15, 2019 from 2:00pm-3:00pm EST
Register Here

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Happenings

Articles + News

How to survive the ultramarathon job interview via CNN

‘It’s Helpful to Know All Scales’: Online Spreadsheet Discloses Museum Workers’ Salaries via ArtNews

Job Precarity, Contract Work, and Self-Care by Sajni Lacey

Thank You For Applying: Using POCs to Diversify A Search Pool via WOC+lib

Providing Culturally Responsive and Ethical Access to Indigenous Collections via SAA’s Archival Outlook

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Collection + Project Highlights

Get Ready to Get Lost in Time: Brooklyn Library Digitizes Thousands of Historic Newspaper Articles! The Brooklyn Collection is still in the process of uploading all the new publications, with 21 added so far. When the upload is complete there will be a grand total of 41 newspapers in the collection. Expanding the digitized newspapers available is an important part of increasing accessibility to Brooklyn history. The collection has been upping its digital presence over the last year or so with a revamped main online portal with direct access to maps, postcards, oral histories and other digitized treasures.

Radhika Jones Introduces Vanity Fair’s Full Digital Archive. The magazine’s editor in chief welcomes readers to the first fully searchable collection of its entire history, from its Jazz Age beginnings to its 1983 revival and on to the present day.

The Memory Lab is a grant-funded program that enables people to digitize and preserve their histories. In today’s digital world, unless the public is equipped to sustain their digital memories, communities risk massive loss of vernacular history and culture. Public libraries are trusted providers of digital literacy and local history programs, and therefore are well positioned to offer open access to the digital tools and skills necessary for communities to document and preserve their own histories.

Preservica, market leaders in active digital preservation, has announced that the University of Bristol will use its Enterprise Private Cloud (EPC) digital preservation platform to safeguard over 50 TBs of unique cultural records. Digital Archivist at the University of Bristol, Emma Hancox said: “Part of what makes the university such a desirable institution is the library’s extensive archives. Preservica was the only system that offered both the specialist tools to ensure preservation of our unique materials, and the wider software to provide a platform for discovery and re-use of records including fast streaming of AV files”

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Conferences, Symposiums, and such…

DLF x VRA: GLAM Cross-Pollinator Program
Forum Fellowship Opportunity / Registration Award
Learn More and Apply

VRA 2020 Conference
Where: Baltimore, MD
When: March 24-27, 2020
Call for Proposals
Deadline: Friday, July 19th
Submit a proposal here

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Happenings

Articles + News

Archivists on the Issues: Rare & Ephemeral: a snapshot of full-time New England archives jobs, 2018-2019

Visual Resources Association Foundation announces 2019 Project Grant recipient!

Normalize Negotiation! Learning to Negotiate Salaries and Improve Compensation Outcomes to Transform Library Culture via In the Library with a Lead Pipe

Bright Young Librarians: Courtney Asztalos, Curator of Plastics and Historical Artifacts at Syracuse University via Fine Books Magazine

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Collection + Project Highlights

The Environmental Design Archives (EDA) at the University of California, Berkeley received a $95,203 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Collections and Reference Resources Grant to process and make accessible significant source materials created by urban designer Walter Hood. Hood’s work focuses on creating environments for people to live, work, and play through engagement with a community and its history. His practice encompasses both the traditional parameters of landscape architecture and embraces urban design, community planning, architecture, environmental art, and research.

German Holocaust archive puts millions of documents online
The international organization, which also announced Tuesday that it is rebranding itself the Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution, hopes that by making the documents widely available to the public it will help researchers and relatives learn more about the Nazi death machine. It’s the first time the massive volume of documents has been put online. Arolsen Archives is located in the north-central town of Bad Arolsen, Germany — about 90 miles north of Frankfurt.

University of Calgary unveils digital archive of 300 bee species. May 20 is World Bee Day, and thanks to a new digital collection of images featuring species native to Alberta, things may be looking up for the beleaguered flying insect. Worldwide, bee populations have been on the decline since the 1990s.The archive is seen as a valuable new resource to help study endangered species and develop healthier environments for bees.

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Conferences, Symposiums, and such…

DLF x VRA: GLAM Cross-Pollinator Program
Forum Fellowship Opportunity / Registration Award
Learn More and Apply

Mountain-Plains Museums Association Conference
Where: Albuquerque, NM
When: September 22-25, 2019
Learn More + View the Schedule

VRA 2020 Conference
Where: Baltimore, MD
When: March 24-27, 2020
Call for Proposals
Deadline: Friday, July 19th
Submit a proposal here

ARLIS/NA
Call for Reviewers: Multimedia & Technology Reviews for June
Learn more and Volunteer

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Tools + Courses

Archival Appraisal for the Non-Archivist Webinar
Member: $100; Nonmember: $125
When: August 13, 2019 from 3:00pm-5:00pm EST
Learn more & Register Here

Introduction to Copyright for Digitization Webinar
Member: $100; Nonmember: $125
When: July 10, 2019 from 12:00pm-2:00pm EST
Learn More & Register Here

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Happenings

Articles + News

Decolonizing and Diversifying Are Two Different Things: A Workshop Case Study via Art History Teaching Resources

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Collection + Project Highlights

Launch of the Franklin Furnace Moving Image Archives
With support from the Council on Library and Information Resources, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Franklin Furnace has made publicly available 140 videos containing audiovisual documentation of events, such as performance art, presented or supported by Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.

The American Craft Council is pleased to announce the addition of a new digital collection, the Friends of Fiber Art International Artist Files.
This digital collection is a selection of the many fiber artists whose material can be found in both the Friends of Fiber Art International and the American Craft Council artist files collections. New content will be added on an ongoing basis. 

The mission of the Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.

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Conferences, Symposiums, and such…

Wading in Digital Art History Water
(A Workshop Week for Those Beginning and Curious)
When: May 28-31, 2019
Where: University of Maryland, Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture
Learn More & Register

VRA 2020 Conference
Where: Baltimore, MD
When: March 24-27, 2020
Call for Proposals
Deadline: Friday, July 19th
Submit a proposal here

Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections
When: August 19-20, 2019
Where: Overland Park, KS
Learn More & Register

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Tools + Courses

Preserve This specializes in online preservation courses and topics related to preservation and collections care for librarians, archivists, museum professionals, and related fields. Our instructors are professionals in their field who enjoy sharing their knowledge with the world. Every course you take here is special. It is designed to help you build skills to operate as a professional in the library, archives, and museum field.

Introduction to Emergency Digital Collecting Webinar via Lyrasis
Nonmember: $125; Member: $100
When: July 24, 2019 from 2:00pm-4:00pm
Live Online – Register Here

CollectionSpace Webinar via Lyrasis
June 7th and 28th from 1:00pm-2:00pm
Cost: Free!
Learn more and Register

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Happenings

Articles + News

How Deauthentication Impacts PoC Academic Librarians’ Library Practice by Kaetrena Davis Kendrick

Archival Pay and SAA: Some Modest Proposals via Southwest Archivists

Flatbed Scanner vs Overhead Camera Digitization via Sustainable Heritage Network

Announcing DT’s New Digitization Certification Program via Digital Transitions Division of Cultural Heritage

ICYMI…
When Copyright and Cultural Collections Converge
Recorded: Feb 2019 via Connecting to Collections
Slides and Handouts available!

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Collection + Project Highlights

Southern Oregon Digital Archives
(at Southern Oregon University’s Hannon Library)
Launch of Terry Skibby Photograph Collection
This collection is the latest collection added to the Stories of Southern Oregon, a digital archive of oral histories, photographs, documents and more.

Adding Context to Content: Successfully Engaging Tribal Elders in Digital Projects via the Sustainable Heritage Network

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Conferences, Symposiums, and such…

VRA 2020 Conference
Where: Baltimore, MD
When: March 24-27, 2020
Call for Proposals
Deadline: Friday, July 19th
Submit a proposal here

The ACRL Image Resources Interest Group (IRIG) is seeking lightning talk proposals for the IRIG Business Meeting on Wednesday, June 11 @ 2:30 EST. Lightning talks are limited to 10 minutes.
The talks are open to all aspects of working with image resources, especially those with a visual literacy focus, including projects in the beginning stages. Please send a short description with title, your name and affiliation to acrlimages@gmail.com by May 29th.

ARLISNA 2020 Conference
Call for Presentations, Panels, and Workshop Proposals
Where: St. Louis, MO
When: April 21-25, 2020
Submit a proposal here
The call for poster, lightning talk, roundtable, moderator, and other meeting proposals will be announced later this year.

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Tools

Use Wakelet to save links to great content that you find online – articles, videos, blogs, tweets, sound files and much more. Curate your saved items into collections. Google Chrome extensions available!

Tropy is free, open-source software that allows you to organize and describe photographs of research material. Once you have imported your photos into Tropy, you can combine photos into items, and group photos into lists. Learn more!

OpenRefine is a free, open source, powerful tool for working with messy data! Bonus: OpenRefine reconciliation service for Getty’s Art Architecture Thesaurus!

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Happenings

Conferences, Symposiums, and such…

VRA Bulletin
Call for Content for the Spring 2019 Issue will be published in June as our inaugural Open Access issue
Submission Deadline: May 24, 2019
Learn More & Submission Guidelines

NDSR Art x MICA
The Art of Digital Stewardship: Content, Context, and Structure
Where: Fred Lazarus IV Center, 1st Floor Auditorium (L115), 131 West North Avenue, Baltimore, MD.
When: Friday, June 28, 2019
Cost: Free and open to the public
Learn more & Register here

Library Marketing and Communications Conference
Call for Proposals – Deadline: Friday, May 24, 2019
When: November 13-14, 2019
Where: St. Louis, MO
Learn More & Submit a Proposal Here

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Webinars, Workshops, and Toolkits

AMIA
Introducing the Archival Management System
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting will soon launch a new and improved Archival Management System (AMS). The new system, built in compliance with the PBCore metadata schema, will improve the AAPB’s ability to acquire additional collections and manage the metadata for the 2.5 million records in the AAPB’s collection. The system will also provide participating public broadcasting stations and archives across the country a platform to search and access their own collections.
When: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 2pm EST
Register Here

AMIA
Putting PBCore into Practice: Metadata Tools for Managing Media Collections
This webinar will focus on the use of PBCore, a metadata schema for managing audiovisual collections. The session will include an overview of PBCore and a demonstration of new tools and resources for implementing PBCore in archives. The tools and resources developed were funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
When: May 29, 2019 at 2pm EST
Register Here

VRA Nominating Committee
Informational Webinar
Listen to the former VRA members talk about their roles
Treasurers, Allan Kohl and Jeannine Keefer, current PR&C Amy McKenna, and read written statements by former PR&C, John Trendler, and VPCAs, Lael Ensor-Bennett and Ryan Brubacher

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Happenings

Awards, Fellowships and $$$

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Call for Proposals to Community-based Archives
Deadline: July 1, 2019
Learn More & Apply
Submit proposals to fund one of the following areas of need:

• Operational support for the organization, including general support for staff, space, and utilities.
• Collections care, including storage, cataloging, description, and preservation.
• Programming and outreach activities, including collecting new materials, and exhibitions, publications, or other uses of the collections.

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Conferences, Symposiums, and such…

American Institute for Conservation
New England Meeting & Conference
Topics: New Tools, Techniques, and Tactics in Conservation and Collection
Where: Uncasville, CT
When: May 13-18, 2019
Learn more & See the schedule

Bucknell University – Digital Scholarship Conference (#BUDSC19)
When: October 11-13, 2019
Where: Lewisburg, PA
CFP Deadline: Thursday, June 6, 2019
Learn More & Submit a Proposal

Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Annual Conference
Call for Proposals
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 8, 2019
Where: Baltimore, MD
When: November 13-16, 2019
Learn More and Submit a Proposal

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Webinars, Workshops, and Toolkits

Chicago Area Archivists
Topic:A/V Preservation: A Discussion
Where: Chicago, IL
When: Friday, May 3, 2019
Cost: Free
Learn More & Register

Society of American Archivists
Topic: Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Digital Archives
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
When: August 30, 2019 from 9am-5pm
This course covers privacy and confidentiality legal issues specific to archives of digital material. You’ll examine the intersection of (and the tension between) privacy/confidentiality, free speech, and freedom to research/write, and focus on how digital records and the digital realm have altered the scene.
Learn more & Register

MARAC (Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference)
Project Management in the Archival Workplace Workshop
Where: Thurmont, Maryland
When: Monday, June 10, 2019 from 9am-4pm
Cost: $90 w/ free parking
This workshop focuses on introductory techniques and common tools for project management. Workshop participants will learn how to establish, define, plan, implement, and execute archival projects.
Learn more & Register

ALAO (Academic Library Association of Ohio) – SCAIG Annual Spring Workshop
Topic: Teaching with Primary Sources
Where: University of Cincinnati, Archives & Rare Books Library
When: May 29, 2019 from 9am-3pm
Cost: Member: $20; Non-member: $25; Students: $10
Learn more & Register

Community Archiving Workshop Handbook
The goal of these workshops is to help an organization jump-start the preservation of an audiovisual collection—film, video, or audio. The idea is simple: experienced audiovisual archivists partner with local volunteers for a daylong workshop that will assess and catalog as many materials as possible, and in the process, provide hands-on training for local volunteers, so they can carry on the work in the future. 
Read the handbook here

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AMIA Scholarship & Image Permanence Institute Internship in Preservation Research

The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) believe that the education and training of moving image archivists is essential to the long-term survival of their moving image heritage.

Three scholarships are currently being offered!

• The Sony Pictures Scholarship
• The Universal Studios Preservation Scholarship
• The Rick Chace Foundation Scholarship

Apply for a AMIA 2019 Scholarship Here

Each student selected as a Scholarship recipient will receive a $4,000 scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year. Funds will be sent to the student’s educational institution and credited toward tuition and/or registration fees. In addition, each recipient will receive complimentary registration to the 2019 AMIA Annual Conference in Baltimore (Nov 13-16).

To be considered for a scholarship, an applicant must meet the following eligibility requirements:

Applicant must be enrolled full time in a graduate-level or other advanced program in moving image studies,  library or information science, archival administration, museum studies or a related discipline; or must be accepted into such a program for the next academic year.

Applicant must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) in his/her current or most recently completed academic program.

Applicant must submit the following documents:

• A Scholarship application form (online submission). Resumes or curriculum vitae must be submitted to supplement the application form.
• An official sealed transcript from the applicant’s most recent academic program (including the institution’s grading scale and/or GPA calculator) sent directly from the academic institution to the AMIA office (via mail or direct email)
• An essay of no more than 1,000 words describing the applicant’s major field of study, interest in moving image archiving, relevant experience and/or education, and career goals.
• Two letters of recommendation (submitted separately to the AMIA office (via mail or direct email). Do not submit more than two.

Applicants need only submit one application form and one set of supporting documents to be eligible for all three Scholarships. 

Applicants eligible for Scholarships, the George Blood Women in AV Archiving Scholarship, and/or the IPI internship must submit a complete application packet for consideration for each type of award; however, no applicant will receive more than one award. 

Students from any country may apply.

Application Deadline: May 15, 2019
Apply for a AMIA 2019 Scholarship Here

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In addition, the Image Permanence Institute Internship in Preservation Research will offer a student who is committed to the preservation of moving images the opportunity to acquire practical experience in preservation research.

The student selected as the IPI Intern will receive a $5000 stipend to be used for living expenses during the three-month internship. The three-month period of the internship may occur at any time during the calendar year but months must run consecutively. 

Learn more and apply for the 2019 Image Permanence Internship here!
Application Deadline: May 15, 2019

Happenings

Advice & Articles

Big Flickr Announcement: All CC-licensed images will be protected!

ICYMI…Are Temporary Appointments a Threat to Archiving? via Moving Image Archive News

Open Access Is Going Mainstream. Here’s Why That Could Transform Academic Life via The Chronicle of Higher Education

Freeze! A manifesto for safeguarding and preserving born-digital heritage via Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

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CFPs, Conferences, Awards, and such…

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Call for Submissions
Deadline: May 15, 2019
Learn More & Apply

Society of American Archivists Foundation
10 Travel Awards available—of up to $1,000 each—to support attendance at the 2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and SAA in Austin, July 31–August 6. Learn More & Apply! [have to be a member to apply]

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Happenings

Awards, Fellowships and $$$

VRAF Professional Development Grant 
Deadline: Friday, February 22, 2019 – Two Grants Available!
Apply Here – VRA Membership NOT required!

Association of Architecture School Librarians – Annual Conference
Frances Chen Travel Award + Student Travel Award
Deadline: Friday, February 8, 2019
Learn More & Apply

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Advice, Articles, & Podcasts

Arts in the Public Library by Autumn Wetli via ArLiSNAP

Resources for Small Archives by the Historical Society of Pennslyvania

The Art Newspaper Podcast hosted by Ben Luke, the Art Newspaper covers and discusses news and current issues from international museums, art galleries, and auction houses

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CFPs, Conferences, Symposiums, and such…

Visual Resources Association Bulletin
Call for Content: Spring 2019 Open Access Issue
In addition to being openly accessible, the Bulletin now offers a hybrid peer-review model in which authors can select whether or not to have a submission peer-reviewed.
Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019
Learn More

Triangle Digital Humanities Institute on Digital Humanities Pedagogy
Where: Duke University
When: Monday, March 5, 2019, from 9:00am to 5:30pm
Learn More

CAA 2019 (College Art Association)
Where: New York City
When: February 13-16, 2019
*VRA will be meeting, during CAA2019, February 15, in the Morgan Suite at the New York Hilton, from 12:30-1:30pm* (This event is free and open to the public, so you do not need to be a CAA member or to register for the conference to attend the VRA business meeting)

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Webinars, Podcasts, and more

Zoom On In are free 20-minute virtual copyright sessions. They’re part of Copyrightlaws.com’s 2019 initiatives to make people more aware of copyright law. Think of these sessions as copyright education or copyright literacy in a nutshell.

*Happening Today* The Smithsonian American Art Museum invites you to join Dr. Susan Rather, a professor and an associate chair for the department of art and art history at the University of Texas at Austin and winner of the 2018 Charles C. Eldredge Prize, for a talk entitled “Constructing the American School” on Thursday, February 7, at 4 p.m. EST at the museum. Watch a live webcast here!

National Trust for Historic Preservation-Preservation Leadership Forum presents Including Women in the Sequel: Re-Interpretation and Telling the Full History at Historic Sites. Panelists from Belle Grove, the Oneida Community Mansion House, and the Pauli Murray House discuss their work telling women’s stories—including identifying source materials, developing interpretive plans, and building narratives that tell a broader American story. Watch the recorded webinar here (free)!

New England Museum Association presents Finding the Broadest Benefit in Preservation. As many of us face ongoing limitations in funding and staffing, it is increasingly important that each preservation action taken improves long-term outcomes for the largest number of items. Preservation (preventive conservation) is best approached when we take a moment to step back from the trees and start looking at the forest. This session will provide a brief refresher on the difference between preservation and conservation, will take you through the various aspects of a preservation program while identifying areas where broad actions have significant benefits and will explore the impact and feasibility matrix as a method for building a long-range preservation plan that benefits all of your collections. Watch the recording here (free)!

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NDSR Art Capstone: Preserving Media Art & Digital Art Information

Friday, June 29, 2018, 8:30-5pm
Kislak Center at Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
3420 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104

To signal the end of the 2017-2018 National Digital Stewardship Residency for Art Information (NDSR Art), the cohort is hosting a one-day capstone event to discuss their year-long projects and offer new perspectives on preserving media art and digital art information. The capstone will examine the residents’ work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Pennsylvania Fisher Fine Arts Library, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Their efforts aspire to contribute to the larger conversation surrounding arts-related preservation issues and to identify strategies to preserve unique digital assets and documentation. The event will expand the discussion and offer perspectives from practitioners in the field, including new media curators, time-based media artists, conservators, and preservationists.

The mission of the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) is to build a dedicated community of professionals who will advance our nation’s capabilities in managing, preserving, and providing access to the digital record of human achievement. NDSR Art adapts and expands the NDSR model by addressing issues of digital preservation and stewardship in relation to the arts, with a particular focus on new media and arts information.

This program is free and open to the public, although registration is recommended. Registration information and a program schedule will be made available soon. For more information please contact Elise Tanner, NDSR Art Resident at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, elise.tanner@philamuseum.org or Coral Salomón, NDSR Art Resident at the University of Pennsylvania, Fisher Fine Arts Library, Corals@upenn.edu.

NDSR Art Capstone: Preserving Media Art & Digital Art Information is sponsored by the National Digital Stewardship Residency for Art Information (NDSR Art) and Penn Libraries.