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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

Preservation Grant Season

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 workshop 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

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.

Writing Your PAG

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!

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.

Personal Digital Archiving

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

Writing a Collection Management Policy: Step-by-Step

This webinar will cover the essential components of a collection management policy for libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage organizations.

Preservation Planning Workshop

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

Fundamentals of Photograph Preservation

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

Preservation 101

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.

Surface Cleaning Techniques for Paper-Based Collections

In this 1-hour “hands on” webinar, participants will learn about various surface cleaning methods that can be safely used to clean books and paper. Using a combination of lecture and live demonstration, the pros and cons and appropriate application of each method will be discussed.

Strategies for Acetate and Nitrate Negatives and Film

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.

Caring for Paper-Based Collections

This webinar introduces the preservation of paper-based collections.

Writing Grants for Audio Preservation and Reformatting

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.

FADGI Demystified

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.

Digitizing Oversized Materials

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

Storing AV Collections

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.

Creating an Integrated Pest Management System

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

Handling Book and Paper-Based Collections: A Primer For Staff, Interns, & Volunteers

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

Environmental Monitoring: Next Steps

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.

"Ready — Or Not": California Cultural Heritage Disaster Preparedness Information Session

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.

Thinking Outside the Box when Boxing

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.

Celebrating with Collections!

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.

Caring for Vellum-bound Books

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.