April Preservation Tip

ALCTS Preservation Week 2019 is April 21-April 27! Even if your position doesn’t involve preservation duties, this year’s webinars on preserving family history and keepsakes may be personally relevant. Be sure to also check out the advice column “Dear Donia” , for answers to fascinating questions submitted by ALCTS members to preservation expert Donia Conn.

If you have topics you would like to see highlighted, or suggestions for resources, please send them to Nariné Bournoutian at nbournoutian@law.columbia.edu. Tips from previous months are available here.

February Preservation Tip

ALCTS is hosting a two part live webinar: Digital Preservation: Audiovisual Edition. The first part will be held on February 27th, 2019 and the second on March 13th, 2019. Whether you are embarking on an AV digitization project or want a refresher on technical aspects of preserving born digital materials, the series may have something of interest!

If you have topics you would like to see highlighted, or suggestions for resources, please send them to Nariné Bournoutian at nbournoutian@law.columbia.edu. Tips from previous months are available here.

January Preservation Tip

If your New Year’s resolution is to refresh your preservation knowledge, we’ve got you covered! To start off 2019 how about free/low cost webinars from some new and previously highlighted sites and resources. It’s never too early to start planning!

1. NEDCC

2. Connecting to Collections

3. NISO

4. ASIS&T  (none posted yet, but keep an eye out!)

5. NAGARA 

If you have topics you would like to see highlighted, or suggestions for resources, please send them to Nariné Bournoutian at nbournoutian@law.columbia.edu. Tips from previous months are available here.