The Documentary Heritage Program (DHP) offers grant funds annually for both Documentation and Arrangement & Description projects to eligible not-for-profit organizations that hold, collect, and make available New York’s historical records.
Upcoming events and opportunities of interest to New York’s historical records repositories:
Event: Successful Volunteer Interview Strategies, Webinar
Date: May 24, 2016 (2:00 pm – 3:00 pm)
Price: Free
Interviewing each prospective volunteer can seem overwhelming, but it’s one of the best ways to ensure that the volunteers you recruit are the volunteers you need. This webinar introduces a variety of question types used in volunteer interviews and offers strategies for honing your interview skills. Materials will be provided to help you implement this process in your organization, as well as a training syllabus so you can learn how to recruit and train a volunteer staff to assist with prospective volunteer interviews.
Presented by: Volunteer Match
More information: http://goo.gl/si9PNA
Event: Caring for Salt Prints, Webinar
Date: May 25, 2016 (12:30 pm – 1:30 pm)
Price: $45
Salt Prints, also called Salted Paper Prints, were the first viable negative/positive photographic process on paper, invented in the 1830s in England by William Henry Fox Talbot. Salt Prints are prone to a variety of environmental and inherent forms of deterioration and are among the most vulnerable types of paper-based photographs. This webinar will discuss the basics of identification, history, craft, deterioration, and preservation of these fragile and important objects.
Presented by: Northeast Document Conservation Center
More information: https://goo.gl/cDZO5l
Event: Lock, Hull, Wheel, and Rail: An Archaeological Study of Access to the World Market in Nineteenth-Century New York State, Lecture
Date: May 25, 2016 (1:00 pm)
Location: New York State Museum, 222 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY
Price: Free
Here about how the state’s canals and railroads were a mechanism of economic development across the state, and how the construction of these arteries impacted and illustrated the lives of immigrant populations who both built and depended upon them. Archaeological evidence, historical documents, and map data provide a clear picture of the development of interpretive resolution of social identity in rural communities as they are connected to the larger economy through the construction of these arteries.
Presented by: New York State Museum
More information: http://goo.gl/7S0Bz3
Event: Civil War Voices: Records from the National Archives and a Personal Collection, Live Online Presentation
Date: May 25, 2016 (2:00 pm)
Price: Free
Researcher John Emond presents dramatic, humorous, and poignant “voices” of soldiers from the North and South through their documents and letters.
Presented by: National Archives Foundation
More information: https://goo.gl/vvHvjS
Event: Funding Collaborations, Webinar
Date: May 26, 2016 (3:00 pm – 4:00 pm)
Price: Free
In an effort to encourage ongoing learning and networking, CoSA sponsors regular 60-90 minute webinars throughout the year.
Presented by: Council of State Archives
More information: https://goo.gl/yo0d3y
Event: Preservation 101: Preservation Basics for Paper and Media Collections, Webinar Series
Date: May 26 through August 11, 2016
Price: $650; Students $500
The instructor-led course gives participants the foundation needed to be effective collections stewards. This comprehensive introduction prepares participants to complete a preservation needs assessment and provides structured guidance on developing an institutional disaster plan. Revised and updated, the course uses the free online version of Preservation 101 as its textbook, adding expanded resources and assignments, interactive discussions, and new content covering audiovisual and digital formats and digital preservation. Putting theory into practice, participants will develop recommendations for improvement and a long-range preservation plan. A series of ten live webinars builds on self-paced study through assigned readings. Feedback will be provided by the instructor.
Presented by: Northeast Document Conservation Center
More information: https://www.nedcc.org/preservation-training/preservation-101-online-course
Event: New York Archives Conference
Date: June 8-10, 2016 … Registration is open
Location: SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
Price: $80 (NYAC Membership $15 + Full Conference $65); plus lodging and meals.
NYAC invites you to share intellectual and professional development, networking, food, and fun at the New York Archives Conference in Plattsburgh! Plenary Speaker Dyani Feige, Director of Preservation Services at the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia, will present “Documenting, Preserving, and Increasing Accessibility for New York’s Archival Institutions: The Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services Initiative.” Attendees can choose from two workshops: one that will focus on Records Management for Non-Profits; and the SAA DAS certificate workshop, “Copyright Issues for Digital Archives.” NYAC will offer enlightening sessions on the uses of labor records, processing large acquisitions, collaboration between nonprofits to increase access to collections, the evolution of the NYS Newspaper Project, making family-held collections available to the public, trends in grant funding approach and methodology in NYS, careers in archives, an update of the work of the Empire State Digital Network and the Digital Public Library of America, digitizing archival collections, an overview of a Hidden Collections Grant project, and the wide array of genealogy uses and tools … among many other offerings.
Presented by: New York Archives Conference (NYAC)
More information: http://www.nyarchivists.org/nyac/
Contact John Diefenderfer or Clare Flemming, New York State Archives, dhs@nysed.gov or 518.474.3229, with your questions.