March AASLH Workshop Registration Open

March 1-3 – Collections Camp: Caring for Furniture at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Harrodsburg, KY. Join your colleagues in this pastoral setting for 2 ½ days of learning how to better care for your furniture collections. Furniture conservator Craig Deller of The Deller Conservation Group, LTD in Geneva, Illinois will introduce participants to basic furniture styles, wood types, and techniques for proper care, storage, and exhibition of furniture collections. He also will describe basic conservation techniques and let you know when to call in the experts. Workshop participants will stay on-site in the historic buildings at Shaker Village. Registration fee includes the class, all class materials, continental breakfast and dinner on March 1. Participants are responsible for their own lodging fees.

March 21-23 – Digitizing Historic Collections at the National Cowboy & Western Museum in Oklahoma City, OK

This workshop, sponsored by AASLH, will be taught by Leigh Grinstead of the Collaborative Digitization Project and will offer in-depth training on digitizing historic collections. Participants can register for single days of the workshop or the entire three days. Day 1 presents issues surrounding the digitization of primary source materials. Day 2 focuses on basic digital imaging techniques. Day 3 introduces creating metadata for digital objects. Topics to be covered include:

• Introduction to the issues involved in digital project management
• Why digitize?
• Defining an audience
• Legal Issues
• Tools for deciding what to digitize
• Dublin Core Metadata
• Digital Capture Best Practices
• Digital Glossary
• Funding Options
• Writing Competitive Grants
• Benefits of Collaboration