[SOA] Fwd: Archival Workshops---Summer in Kent

[Janet Carleton]

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:23:18 -0400
From: "FILIPAN, RHONDA" <rfilipan at kent.edu>
To: <KSUSLIS-L at LISTSERV.kent.edu>, <alao at lists.uakron.edu>,
         <oplinlist at oplin.org>, <infohio-l at oecnsrv.nwoca.org>,
         "OELMA_MBR digest" <oelma-mbr at www.listport.com>,
         "SLIS Adjuct faculty list" <SLISADJUNCT-L at LISTSERV.kent.edu>
Subject: [ALAO] NEW Archival Worskhops---Summer in Kent---REGISTER!

Two exciting new Summer workshops at Kent State!  Earns 1 graduate credit 
($408)

Archival Description: DACS, MARC, and EAD
June 20 – 21
9:00 – 4:30
Instructor:  Dr. Karen Gracy, Assistant Professor, School of Library & 
Information Science
Kent, 317 Library
To Register:  Enter CRN 13800
** If you are not a KSU student, please call 1-800-672-KSU2 to Register

This workshop will introduce participants to the three standards central to 
archival description: Describing Archives:  A Content Standard (DACS), 
Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC), and Encoded Archival Description 
(EAD).   Students will gain knowledge of how archival collections are 
organized and described, and learn the key components of archival finding 
aids (including biographies and administrative histories, scope and content 
notes, and other elements specific to archival description).  They will 
then generate electronic versions of these descriptions in both MARC and 
EAD formats.

Books:

1.      Kathleen Roe, Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts 
(Chicago:  Society of American Archivists, 2005).
2.      Describing Archives: A Content Standard (Chicago:  Society of 
American Archivists, 2004).



Introduction to Audiovisual Archiving
July 11 – 12
9:00 – 4:30
Instructor:  Dr. Karen Gracy, Assistant Professor, School of Library & 
Information Science
Kent, 317 Library
To Register:  Enter CRN 13802
** If you are not a KSU student, please call 1-800-672-KSU2 to Register


Through a combination of lecture, demonstrations, and discussion, 
participants will be introduced to the core concerns of moving image and 
sound archiving, including the following topics:  Basics of film and 
magnetic media care and handling. methods of preservation and restoration 
(for both analog and digital media), approaches to restoration, paying 
particular attention to ethical concerns, how to deal with the new digital 
media (including the benefits and pitfalls of digitization), systems of 
description and retrieval for archival audiovisual material, focusing on 
media asset management systems, ways to provide access to audiovisual media

** 3 books required---all available online

The Film Preservation Guide:  The Basics for Libraries, Archives, and 
Museums.  San Francisco:  National Film Preservation Foundation, 
2004.  Available online (or can be purchased 
at):  <http://www.filmpreservation.org>http://www.filmpreservation.org

VideoPreservation Website, 
<http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/index.html>http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/index.html 
(explore the all sections of the site, particularly the VideoID and 
Migration sections)

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, "The 
Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation 
Strategy," December 2005, http://www.iasa-web.org/IASA_TC03/TC03_English.pdf.


--Rhonda

Rhonda S. Filipan
Academic Program Coordinator
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
330-672-0013


______________
   Janet M. Carleton --- carleton at ohio.edu --- 740/597-2527
Digital Initiatives Coordinator / Women's & Gender Studies Bibliographer
      Alden 235A, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio
                   http://www.library.ohiou.edu/ 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.oplin.org/pipermail/ohioarchivists/attachments/20080324/88b4bab5/attachment.html