Historic Information Management, Southeast Community College
Cumberland, Kentucky
The Historic Information Management Program consists separate certificate programs in each of three concentrations: Archival Management, Museum Management, and Records Management.

They are designed to deliver a fundamental technical grounding in each profession. They are not intended to be a short cut or substitute for undergraduate or graduate professional education in these areas. The Historic Information Management program is responding to a need that has arisen as organizations preserving and presenting Appalachian cultural legacy to the public mature – a shortage of trained, homegrown professional staff. The program is also designed to serve cultural workers at smaller institutions throughout the country, so that shorthanded staffs, limited budgets, and the absence of local training facilities need not make professional training for staff an impossible dream. Designed to meet the needs of busy people who work or want to work in museums, archives, or records management, the Historic Information Management Program delivers most of its courses through the Internet. Single parents, part-time students or those currently employed in archives, museum, or records management desiring to further their education and training will find this unique on-line delivery approach a fast, convenient, and economical approach to career development.

Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is a university-based, nonprofit research laboratory devoted to scientific research in the preservation of visual and other forms of recorded information. It is the world's largest independent laboratory with this specific scope. IPI was founded in 1985 through the combined efforts and sponsorship of the Rochester Insitute of Technology and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology.

The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, George Eastman House
Rochester, New York
The school is the first in North America to teach the restoration, preservation, and archiving of motion pictures. The certificate program offered by the school provides students with a comprehensive education covering the theory, methods, and practice of archival work and film preservation. Students work closely with George Eastman House staff, receiving practical, hands-on training in the maintenance, care, and storage of motion pictures.

Master of Arts, Photographic Preservation and Collection Management, Ryerson University and George Eastman House
Rochester, New York
The joint graduate program provides an integrated program of academic study and professional education that will equip students to meet current responsibilities and future demands in photographic preservation and in managing and preserving photographic collections. Its faculty includes photographic historians, scientists, practitioners, curators and other museum professionals. The first year of the program is given at Ryerson University in Toronto. The second year is in Rochester at the George Eastman House, while the six-week internship is carried out at a museum or archive during the summer months between the first and second years. The program is the only one of its kind in the world. Its curriculum is specifically designed to deepen students' understanding of the history of the photographic medium, particularly its social, cultural, and instrumental uses, and the purposes and functions of photographs and photographic collections.

ONLINE TUTORIALS & PUBLICATIONS

Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial , Cornell University Library, 2002-2003
This tutorial offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. It also introduces some concepts advocated by Cornell University Library, in particular the value of benchmarking requirements before undertaking a digital initiative. You will find here up-to-date technical information, formulas, and reality checks, designed to test your level of understanding.

Copyright Town Meetings & Reports, NINCH, 1997-2003
Since 1997, NINCH has organized Copyright Town Meetings across the nation, bringing the basic facts about copyright law and recent copyright issues to wide audiences in the educational and cultural communities. These not only educate but also provide a forum for sharing copyright concerns with assembled experts.

Document Management and Document Imaging, Steve Gilheany, Archives Builders
These materials are used by Gilheany for his on-site course but are made freely available online. Document Management and Document Imaging is for managers who have been assigned to manage a document imaging system, and must start immediately, but can spend three days to study the subject and its background. This course is designed to assist managers to be more effective in bringing the immediate and long term benefits of document imaging and document management to their organizations and to their organizations' clients, customers, and constituents. Students will gain an understanding of how document imaging can be used and managed in both small and large-scale organizations. Document imaging is the process of taking documents out of file cabinets, and off shelves, and storing them in a computer. This course provides an understanding of the details that there is often no time to review in the rush to implement a system. The course content is intended to be useful to students in their professional work for twenty years into the future and is also intended to be useful for planning to preserve digital documents forever.

Preservation 101: an Internet Course on Paper Preservation, Northeast Document Conservation Center
An orientation to the importance of caring for library and archival materials.

WORKSHOPS & COURSES: ONGOING

ALA Continuing Education Clearinghouse
This is a database of continuing education opportunities offered by ALA and its units. It includes face-to-face workshops and conferences, online learning, and workshops that can be licensed by local institutions.

"Basics and Beyond" Digital Imaging Workshops, Illinois Digitization Institute
"Basics and Beyond" is designed to teach libraries, museums and archives how to digitize cultural heritage materials using generally accepted best practices. The primary focus is the digitization of photographic, manuscript and archival collections, although some information on three-dimensional digitization has also been included. These workshops and courses are meant to serve as an introductions to digitization techniques, and do not cover every aspect of digital projects. It is hoped that these training materials will ultimately provide the impetus for participants to integrate digitization programs into the mainstream practices of their institutions.

Preservation Workshop Series, Northeast Conservation Center (NEDCC)
Founded in 1973, the Northeast Document Conservation Center is the largest nonprofit, regional conservation center in the United States, specializing in preservation of paper-based materials. Its services include paper, book, and photograph conservation treatment; preservation microfilming; digitization; photograph duplication; surveys and consultation; disaster assistance; and workshops and conferences. Visit NEDCC'S Web site at http://www.nedcc.org/

Specialized Conservation Workshops, CCAHA Workshops
CCAHA offers workshops primarily for professional staff, such as curators, collections managers, archivists, librarians, or others who have primary responsibility for the care and handling of artifacts. CCAHA is also willing to develop specialized workshops tailored to your needs. Topics include: "Preservation Challenges", "Building Environments and Basic Care", "The Care and Handling of Photographs", "Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery Workshop", "The Care of Maps, Posters, and Oversize Artifacts", "Strategies for Brittle Materials", and "Commercial Library Building". Hands-on workshops include: "Conservation for Permanent Collections", "Care and Repair of Circulating Library Collections", "Housing Solutions for Paper-Based Artifacts".

Training & Workshops, AMIGOS Library Services
Amigos Library Services, Inc. provides on-request, regional and electronic learning opportunities. Training courses cover an array of topics important to today's changing libraries, scheduled and delivered in a variety of ways. From OCLC to the Internet, reference and technical services to management and technology, we will assist you in determining your training needs, then identify or develop courses and delivery methods to meet them.
AMIGOS is dedicated to serving libraries. A nonprofit organization, Amigos is today one of the nation’s largest library resource-sharing networks and a leader in providing information technology to libraries. The Amigos Membership consists of over 750 libraries and cultural institutions, located primarily in the southwestern United States, who utilize Amigos’ comprehensive line of services, including cataloging, reference, resource sharing, preservation, digital imaging, consulting and training.

Workshops & Courses, SOLINET
SOLINET (Southeastern Library Network, Inc.) provides workshops in administration, cataloging, preservation, technological and legal issues, professional and personal development, programming and marketing and reference. SOLINET offers a web-based program as well as location-specific training within the southeastern.
SOLINET, a membership network of libraries and other information organizations, works in collaboration with many partners, from local to international, to provide leadership for cooperative action, improve access to information, and enable members to effectively anticipate and address the region’s needs for education, economic development, and improved quality of life.
Complete Inventory of Courses. Sample Courses: Metadata for Digitization and Preservation (Web-based train), Managing and Preserving Digital Materials, Developing a Disaster Plan (Web-Based Training), Grant Writing for Digitization and Preservation Projects, Management 101, Presentation Skills, Advanced Networking, Javascript, Metadata Standards, Introduction to A/V Cataloging

WORKSHOP & COURSE CALENDER: 2007

February 8, 2007, February 28, 2007, Online
XHTML: The Future of Web Design, SOLINET
This hands-on class will cover: Making your HTML code conform to XHTML rules; text formatting, color, adding images; tables; creating hyperlinks. Particpants will also get an overview of XHTML editors, storage space issues and how to register their web page.

February 12, 2007, April 17, 2007, Online
Classroom Management Technique for Librarians, SOLINET
Librarians are teachers too, however, as library school students, we are not exposed to the wide-ranging “toolbox” of classroom management strategies that teachers have learned and apply every day.This two day, two hours each day class will, through discussion and exercises, introduce a range of classroom management, teaching, and presentation techniques that librarians can use and apply in a variety of settings to keep classes motivated and on task.

February 20-23, 2007, Online
Project Management for Digital Imaging, Amigos Library Services
This workshop is structured to assist both current and future project managers beginning or already in the planning stages of production-based projects. Focus will be on selection of appropriate items and collections for imaging; documentation and workflow, writing and managing RFPs, involvement in cooperative projects, vendor selection, copyright and rights management issues, funding sources, and writing grant proposals. Key preservation issues involved with imaging projects are emphasized.
Prerequisites: Completion of the "Introduction to Imaging and Imaging Technology," workshop, completion of the Cornell "Moving Theory into Practice" online digital imaging tutorial http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html or other experience in scanning text or images.

February 26, 2007, Online
CONTENTdm: The Basics, Amigos Library Services
A hands-on workshop designed to assist new users of CONTENTdm software in building digital collections. The introductory class includes a software overview covering CONTENTdm functionality, interoperability and integration tools such as various importing and exporting wizards.
Participants configure and populate their own digital collection using materials provided. The step-by-step tutorial takes the new user through configuring metadata and rights management templates for data entry, adding items singly and in batch, and using a wizard to create compound objects. Participants also learn how to migrate data into CONTENTdm using tab-delimited files containing metadata and digital object references. The participants will learn how to implement and maintain a controlled vocabulary. Techniques are taught for individual record, sub-set and global maintenance of the collection using both the client Acquisition Station and the web-based editor. Automated customization of pre-defined queries and results are taught through the use of the Custom Queries and Results tool.

March 6-9, 2007, Online
Metadata for Digitized Resources, Amigos Library Services
Providing metadata for digitized resources goes beyond traditional cataloging. What are the challenges to organizing and providing access to digitized materials on the web? This workshop outlines the types of metadata necessary to a well-maintained digital collection, including metadata for discovery, navigation, administration/preservation, rights management and structural metadata. Obtain basic knowledge of the extensible Markup Language (XML) and some of its derivatives�the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Encoded Archival Description (EAD). Understand the differences between XML and HTML. Understand the emerging standards for Web access, including the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and its relation to XML. Learn how the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard wraps digital objects and their metadata together. Discover Dublin Core, an international standard for description and discovery on the Web.

April 24-25, 2007, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) and PALINET
Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media, Catholic University of America, Washgington, D. C.
Many of the machine-readable audiovisual collections held by our cultural institutions are in peril. Therefore, it is crucial to have knowledge about the life expectancy and unique needs of our legacy media in order to make good preservation decisions. From videotapes and audiotapes to motion picture film, film strips, LPs, 78s, magnetic tape, wax cylinders, and audiocassettes, each of these formats has a critical point at which information will begin to be lost.
The challenge of long-term preservation for these formats is that they often require intervention, including cleaning and reformatting. To maximize the life of these materials, one must understand the nature of the media, causes of deterioration, storage and handling practices, and the various types of playback equipment. Through lectures, discussion, and hands-on experiences, participants in this two-day program will learn the basic principles for managing audiovisual collections that contain historic formats. Contracting with vendors and funding strategies will also be discussed.
This program is intended for curators, librarians, archivists, collection managers, and other staff who are involved in managing machine-based media collections in cultural institutions.

May 1-3, 2007, Northeast Document Conservation Center (NDCC)
School for Scanning: Building Good Digital Collections, Minneapolis, MN
NDCC is revamping the School for Scanning conference in response to participants' comments. They will not be offering it again until May 2007; instead, they are replacing it with full-group lectures AND breakout sessions. The conference will be geared toward an audience without a lot of (or any) experience in digitization, a sort of Elementary School for Scanning. For institutions with a few projects (or a digitization program) under their belts, refer to the Persistence of Memory conference.

May 10, 2007, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)
Disaster Mitagation for Cultural Collections: Risk Assessment and Crisis Communication, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA
Conducting a vulnerability analysis and risk assessment gives institutions the vital information necessary to help minimize the likelihood of a disaster. In this workshop, participants will learn how these tools fit into an institution’s emergency planning and how to conduct an analysis of risk and vulnerability, essential for evaluating the types of emergencies that could affect collections. A presentation by a crisis communications expert will be included to address public relations strategies for emergency situations.

May 11, 2007, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)
From Vulnerable to Vigilant: Emergency Preparedness adn Response, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA
Participants in this workshop will learn how to assign responsibilities for key emergency preparedness roles, write or update an emergency plan, use practical decision-making skills during an emergency, set pre- and post-disaster action priorities for collections, and “exercise” their institutions’ emergency plans. There will also be discussion of projects of the Heritage Emergency National Task Force, including Alliance for Response, an initiative to build partnerships with emergency responders in Philadelphia and other U.S. cities. New national programs and resources inspired by Hurricane Katrina will be described and participants will be introduced to the Field Guide to Emergency Response, a new publication and video that is designed to help staff organize disaster response functions and tackle common threats to collections.

May 21-25, 2007, King's Digital Consultancy Services, King's College and PALINET
Digital Futures: from Digitization to Delivery, King's College, London, UK
Led by experts of international renown, Digital Futures focuses on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting five days, Digital Futures is aimed at managers and other practitioners from the library, museum, heritage and cultural sectors looking to understand the strategic and management issues of developing digital resources from digitisation to delivery.

May 23, 2007, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)
Saving the Image: Identifying and Caring for Photographs, College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA
From the Collections Care Series.
This session will address mitigating the causes of damage to photographic materials. Topics covered will include environmental standards, selection of housing methods and materials, proper handling techniques, and disaster related issues. In addition, the identification of photographic processes will be discussed in the context of care and handling. Sample prints and housing materials will be available for examination.

June 24-30, 2007, VRA and ARLIS/NA
Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

June 24-28, 2007, EDUCAUSE
Institute Leadership Program, Boulder, Colorado
Experienced managers and current and aspiring directors who want to refresh and broaden their perspectives will find the Leadership Program ideal for discovering new ways to develop vision, execute plans, and lead change at their institutions.
Leadership in general is complicated, contextual, untidy, and challenging. A successful IT leader needs many talents, qualities, perspectives, and political skills. The critical success factors for a successful IT leader include a grounding in the nature of higher education, an understanding of the style and context in which decisions are made, and strong communication and organizational skills. The Leadership Program focuses on the overall context in which IT leadership takes place, the planning and organizational skills needed to provide institutional leadership, and the personal characteristics individuals need to develop and sustain a career in IT leadership.
The program's lively and interactive sessions focus on refining the visioning, thinking, planning, and organizing skills that are essential to framing productive discourse in the workplace. And the small–scale setting is excellent for exchanging experiences and developing new professional relationships with colleagues and faculty.

July 8-12, 2007, EDUCAUSE
Learning Technology Leadership Program, Madison, Wisconsin
The program is designed for individuals who implement and support the use of technology in teaching and learning and have significant experience in such areas as instructional design, instructional technology, learning support, and e-learning and aspire to leadership roles, both formal and informal.
This Institute program focuses on how to develop leadership and the ability to influence institutional directions in enhancing the learning environment rather than on the delivery of instructional design or instructional support services. The program explores how individuals can facilitate systemic transformation of teaching and learning in institutions of higher education.
The distinguishing feature of this program is its emphasis on the transition of the professional role of learning technologist from responding to an identified need for instructional support to that of an initiator of academic change. Leadership in this context may not be attached to the position title but rather be assumed and exercised by the professional. It is leadership in the context of learning design and technology that makes this program unique.

October 24-25, 2007, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) and PALINET
Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH
Many of the machine-readable audiovisual collections held by our cultural institutions are in peril. Therefore, it is crucial to have knowledge about the life expectancy and unique needs of our legacy media in order to make good preservation decisions. From videotapes and audiotapes to motion picture film, film strips, LPs, 78s, magnetic tape, wax cylinders, and audiocassettes, each of these formats has a critical point at which information will begin to be lost.
The challenge of long-term preservation for these formats is that they often require intervention, including cleaning and reformatting. To maximize the life of these materials, one must understand the nature of the media, causes of deterioration, storage and handling practices, and the various types of playback equipment. Through lectures, discussion, and hands-on experiences, participants in this two-day program will learn the basic principles for managing audiovisual collections that contain historic formats. Contracting with vendors and funding strategies will also be discussed.
This program is intended for curators, librarians, archivists, collection managers, and other staff who are involved in managing machine-based media collections in cultural institutions.

CONFERENCES

December 5-6, 2006
Persistence of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets
Northeast Document Conservation Center (NDCC)
Marriott University Park Hotel, Tuscon, Arizon

March 27-31, 2007
Silver Jubilee
Visual Resources Association
InterContinental Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri

March 29-April 1, 2007
Sailing into the Future -- Charting Our Destiny
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
Baltimore, Maryland

April 26-May 1, 2007
At the Crossroads: Inside, Outside, Past, Present, Future...
ARLIS/NA
Sheraton Colony Square Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia

May 2-7, 2007
Midwest Archives Conference
Columbus, Ohio

May 17-19, 2007
Society of California Archivisits
Rrenaissance Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, California

June 3-6, 2007
SLA Annual Conference
Special Libraries Association
Denver, Colorado

June 17-23, 2007
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Vancouver, British Columbia

June 21-27, 2007
ALA Annual Conference
American Library Association
Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.

August 27-September 2, 2007
SAA Annual Conference
Society of American Archivists
Fairmont, Chicago, Illinois

Museum Computer Network

INTERNSHIPS (Coming Soon!)
Visual Resources Internship Programs (Report)