Digital Directions: Foundations for Digital Collections

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions are relatively easy to apply for and have launched successful preservation projects and programs in institutions across the country. Be ready for the round of applications!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This webinar will offer guidance and resources about preserving our “digital lives” – after all, digital files are today’s scrapbooks and personal collections.

This webinar introduces participants to the key considerations of writing a preservation plan, an essential tool for coordinating preservation activities over time.

The six-session online course offers an in-depth introduction to the preservation of photographs, including their identification, deterioration, and care.

The Preservation 101 course is an interactive online course designed to introduce preservation topics such as environmental management, deterioration of materials, emergency preparedness, and preservation of paper-based, audiovisual, and digital formats.

This webinar, presented by NEDCC’s Director of Imaging Services, will cover all of the logistical complexities involved in a digitization/reformatting project that includes nitrocellulose- and cellulose acetate-based film, from packing and shipping to long-term storage and maintenance to the ethical dilemma of retention vs. disposal.

This webinar introduces the preservation of paper-based collections.

This webinar will introduce participants to a variety of grants that fund audio preservation and reformatting activities and offer guidance on selecting a grant-worthy project for their institution.

This webinar provides both an introduction to and a critical engagement with the Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials (2023), published by the Still Image Working Group - aka FADGI.

This webinar will explore the role that conservation plays to ensure the best quality capture.

This session provides attendees with an in-depth introduction to developing and implementing a storage plan for audiovisual media, including grooved media, motion picture film, magnetic tape, and optical discs.

Participants will learn about the phases of IPM, including prevention, monitoring, identification, and intervention.

This webinar is great for anyone new to handling rare/fragile materials and for anyone in need of a quick refresher.

This webinar builds on the basics covered in our introductory course and guides participants through the analysis of environmental monitoring data and how to make improvements to the environment.

Join the "Ready — Or Not": Cultural Heritage Disaster Preparedness Project's Outreach & Travel Coordinator for an overview of the project and how to set up a site visit for your organization in California.

This talk is geared towards library, archives, and museum professionals charged with collections care. We will discuss how to navigate archival supply catalogs to find the necessary tools and supplies to create customized enclosures on-site.

Before you bring out your most precious items, though, you'll want to attend this introductory webinar to learn the basics about how to protect them during handling, scanning, and exhibition.

The instructor will walk participants through key terms, the mechanical structure of vellum bindings, common condition issues of vellum-bound books, and storage solutions for these materials.

This webinar will outline the important considerations that go into purchasing archival supplies.

This session teaches participants about the technical considerations that go into making an oral history recording preservation-quality.

This webinar will provide a brief overview of the history of grooved audio media, and provide guidance on the identification and management of these formats.