Presentations
Using Data to Advocate for the Preservation of Audiovisual Collections
This webinar explains how data from a four-year project to survey and assess audiovisual collections across the Smithsonian Institution is being used to advance the preservation of those materials on a pan-institutional level.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, AV Materials
Lost in Transcription—Developing workflows for captioning video (video)
View this webinar to learn about an investigation into captioning tools and potential workflows to address accessibility issues for digital video at scale.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Topics, AV Materials
Approaches to Processing Audiovisual Archives for Improved Access and Preservation Planning (video)
This webinar explains University of Houston’s “enhanced for A/V” minimal processing mindset utilized to survey all A/V materials held by UH Special Collections, and ongoing efforts to create a standard practice for A/V materials in archival collections as they are acquired to ensure proper storage. The webinar concludes with a discussion of the impact this approach has had on continuing efforts to preserve and make available A/V collections at UH.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress, Topics, AV Materials
Computational Uses of Audiovisual Materials at the Library of Congress
View this webinar to learn how the LC Labs team at the Library of Congress is currently experimenting with multiple ways to provide computational access to audiovisual materials.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections, AV Materials
Radical Access—Leveraging Creative Commons Licenses to Open up Archives
Speakers explain the suite of options available using Creative Commons licensing to allow creators to give their intellectual property to archives and special collections libraries. Webinar participants learned strategies for explaining open licenses to donors (and sellers), negotiating for them, articulating them in archival descriptions, and helping researchers make sense of them.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
Managing Archival Technical Services with Agile Software Development Methods at Ohio State University Libraries
In this presentation, library staff from Ohio State University Libraries discuss how implementing Agile helped archival staff to improve productivity overall and increased opportunities for staff members to cross-train, develop skills, and lead projects.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
Engaging the Archives: Collaborating with Faculty for Robust Undergraduate Learning
Watch our recorded discussion of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan’s Engaging the Archives program and learn about our research findings on the impact of intensely collaborative teaching on faculty, archivists, and students.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections
Articulating Accessioning
In this webinar recording, Accessioning Archivists from NYU Libraries and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library discuss their roles and elaborate on experiences building accessioning programs at their institutions.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress, Research Agendas
Making the Most of Unique Collections: Developing New Roles and Approaches at LSE
Watch this webinar recording to learn more about the London School of Economics and Political Science's approach to developing an integrated approach toward its collections, creating new roles to unify and lead the development and exploitation of unique and distinctive material across its collections on a thematic basis.
Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections
The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda (video)
In this “office hours” style webinar, Chela Scott Weber gives an overview of the Research and Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections in Research Libraries, and hosts a conversation for RLP members to ask questions and give input on where action from the RLP is most beneficial for their institutions.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress