ArchivesSpace Update – May 2018

May 31, 2018By Christine KimMonthly Updates No Comments

May 2018 Update We are excited to share exciting community updates, including updates on regional forums and the upcoming 4th annual Member Forum. New stories are up on the blog, and we have another great webinar coming up in June! Read on for more news! Development The ArchivesSpace team is pleased to announce a release … Read More

User Insights: Organizing an ArchivesSpace Training for Smaller Institutions

May 31, 2018By Christine KimUser Insights No Comments

Contributed by: Adrienne Harling, Archivist, San Francisco Symphony As ArchivesSpace is now the industry standard for Archival collection management and finding aid generation, organizations of all sizes are looking to adopt it. To do this successfully, it is ideal to get in-person training as well as membership access to the wealth of self-help instructional materials … Read More

All About Community: Technical Documentation sub-team

May 30, 2018By Christine KimAll About Community No Comments

Contributed by: Scott Hanrath, Assistant Dean for Digital Initiatives and Discovery Services, University of Kansas Libraries The Technical Documentation sub-team of the ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council (TAC) seeks to make sure that the technical documentation for ArchivesSpace meets the needs of the community. The technical documentation is intended to help developers and IT staff install, … Read More

SoCal Regional Forum — registration is now open!

May 24, 2018By Christine KimRegional Forums No Comments

Join us for the ArchivesSpace Regional Forum in Southern California! The regional forums are opportunities for our diverse ArchivesSpace members to meet up more locally to share and learn from each other through workshops, focused discussion sessions, and presentations. Registration is now open! DETAILS Location: UC Irvine, Student Center Date: June 28, 2018 (Thursday) Time: 9am – 5pm … Read More

Recording and slides from The Evolution of the Finding Aid webinar

May 17, 2018By Christine KimWebinars No Comments

Thanks to all who joined us for the The Evolution of the Finding Aid: From Document to Data webinar on May 16. Special thanks to our presenter Valerie Addonizio (Johns Hopkins University). Resources from the webinar are now available: Link to the recording: https://youtu.be/_IVW1Gs6Tms Slides from the presentation Feel free to contact the ArchivesSpace program team (ArchivesSpaceHome@lyrasis.org) … Read More

SoCal Regional Forum – lightning round proposals

May 9, 2018By Christine KimNews No Comments

The SoCal Regional Forum Working Group is seeking proposals for a lightning round of presentations, to be delivered at the ArchivesSpace SoCal Regional Forum at UC Irvine on June 28, 2018. The presentations will be capped at 5 minutes and topics can be on anything related to your work using, developing, implementing, or actively contributing … Read More

Webinar Announcement: The Evolution of the Finding Aid: From Document to Data

May 7, 2018By Christine KimWebinars 2 Comments

The Evolution of the Finding Aid: From Document to Data When: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT) Where: Webinar at http://lyrasis.adobeconnect.com/r9a9jsf5r3g5/ Dial-in only option: 888-354-0094 — Access code is 731627 No registration required. The session is limited to the first 100 participants. Please feel … Read More