[SOA] Planning for American Archives Month in October - Make Plans, Share Your Plans, Sign Up to Give a Virtual Tour!

[Natalie Fritz]

Hello All!

October is American Archives Month and we want to take the opportunity to
highlight and celebrate archives all throughout Ohio!

This year, the Advocacy and Outreach Committee would like to offer a few
virtual opportunities in October to invite the public "in" to our archives.
We have set up four dates on Tuesday afternoons in October to allow Ohio
archival repositories to sign up to give a brief virtual tour during a
one hour Zoom meeting. Each Tuesday time slot can have up to 6 archives
providing a tour, giving 8-10 minutes per archive. This is a chance to show
off your place, your coolest things, whatever you'd like!

The one-hour Zoom meetings are Tuesdays, October 5th and 19th at 12:15 pm
and Tuesday, October 12 and 26 at 2:15pm. You can sign up for your
preferred date and tour time using the form here:
https://cutt.ly/OhioArchiveTours.

After signing up, you'll receive the link for your date. Each time
slot/date is limited to 6 organizations that will provide a virtual tour.
However, multiple employees/representatives from an archive are welcome to
attend the Zoom where your organization will be featured. In addition,
organizational representatives can join to watch and chat/ask questions on
*any* of the other dates if they just want to see other archives! This is a
fun opportunity for us archivists too, not just the public! We hope you can
join any of the days available!

Once people have started signing up, we'll share a graphic/flyer that can
be shared with details of how the public can join each session.

If your archive site hasn't made plans yet to do something to celebrate and
acknowledge Archives Month, we encourage you to hold some sort of event (in
person or virtual) to let people get to know your archives! If you already
have something planned (like an open house, talk, etc.), please share the
details so that we can publish a list of Ohio Archives Month activities
around the state on the SOA website. You can send event details to
nataliemfritz3 at gmail.com.

On a side note, we hope people have started to receive their Ohio Archives
Month posters highlighting Ohio's great outdoors. We hope you enjoy and
share them! Keep your eye out for a survey regarding those posters in the
near future.

Thank you,

Natalie Fritz
Co-Chair SOA Advocacy and Outreach Committee




Natalie Fritz
Archivist and Director of Collections Outreach & Social Media
Clark County Historical Society at the Heritage Center
117 S. Fountain Avenue
Springfield, OH 45502
937-324-0657 ext. 234
nataliemfritz3 at gmail.com
www.heritage.center
Connect with Local History! <https://linktr.ee/clarkcohistory>
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