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Digitization: Planning for Success

This session covers digitization project stages; selection criteria for converting paper, audio, video, and film collections; and handling considerations for vulnerable media across these format categories.

Writing a Disaster Plan (2 sessions)

Having a disaster plan is an important part of collections stewardship. This two-part course empowers participants to complete the critical stages of becoming more prepared for the unexpected.

Digital Preservation Storage 101

If you are completely new to digital preservation storage, or simply need a refresher or tips for how to work with your IT department, this webinar will help you improve storage at your institution.

Preventing and Responding to Mold in Book and Paper Collections

Mold can pose a serious threat to cultural heritage materials. In this 1-hour webinar, participants will learn how to asses identify mold, how to safely clean moldy materials, and how to prevent future mold outbreaks through proactive preservation measures.

Digitizing Photographic Materials

This webinar provides an in-depth overview of photograph digitization.

Exhibiting Your Collections

This webinar will help you understand the risks of exhibition so that you can develop policies and guidelines to mitigate risks.

Exhibit Cradles for Bound Volumes

In this webinar we’ll review options for commercially available exhibit cradles and how to choose materials for use in constructing exhibit mounts.

Starting an Archive: Preservation Basics

This webinar is designed to identify foundational preservation principles and activities that can serve as guideposts when setting up or developing an archive.

Strategies for Born Digital Collections

This webinar is for anyone interested in developing or refining their organization’s collecting and preservation practices for content originating in a digital form.

Care and Reformatting of Microfilm

This webinar will first provide an introduction to micro formats and the role they’ve played in preserving and disseminating information, from their introduction until today.

Fundamentals of AV Preservation

The Instructor-led Fundamentals of Audiovisual Preservation course give participants the foundation needed to be effective collections stewards for audiovisual materials.

Disaster and Emergency Planning Refresher

When was the last time you looked at your emergency and disaster plan? This is webinar is designed to a quick refresher of the basic concepts of preparing and planning for possible emergencies and disasters.

Grant Writing for Collections Preservation

Learn how to jump start a preservation project with an application for grant funding. Be ready for the next round of applications! This webinar is presented by an NEDCC Preservation Specialist and covers the issues that should be considered when preparing local, state, federal, and foundation grant applications.

10 Practical Steps for Getting Started with Digital Preservation

Join NEDCC's Preservation Services Department to learn about 10 tips to help move your program and its practices forward.

Environmental Monitoring: An Introduction

This basic overview provides participants with the background knowledge needed to start collecting data, including key terms, how to understand your building’s current systems, and how the environment impacts different collections.

Digital Preservation Metadata Basics

This webinar serves as a starting point for understanding the kinds of information you will want to gather to support digital preservation, using current guidelines, standards, and models in the field to identify core information required to steward digital objects over time.

Caring for Scrapbooks

Participants will learn about the structure of scrapbooks, the types of materials commonly found in them, methods of attachment, implications for preservation and conservation, and how to provide the best level of care for scrapbook collections.

History of the Book and its Structure

This webinar will provide an overview of the history of the book with a focus on the evolution of Western binding styles and techniques.

Digitizing Scrapbooks

This session provides an overview of digitizing scrapbooks, photo albums, and other unique bound items.