Join us on Wednesday, May 31st for the webinar, The How-Tos of Digital Collections Management offered by AASLH’s StEPs program. Whether your organization is new to digitization or it has been digitizing materials for years, it is critical that guidelines, policies and strategies are in place to prioritize the work. The other issue of equal—and sometimes even larger concern—is what to do with collections that originate in digital form, known as “born digital.” How do you evaluate and assess those collections?
Guest speaker Leigh Grinstead will walk us through the process of selecting which collections to digitize, policy and strategy development, and caring for digital collections regardless of whether they are born digital or reformatted. Leigh will highlight organizations that can model good practices in each of these three subject areas. She will also discuss lessons learned by organizations that made early mistakes but managed to “right the ship” and transition to a successful digitization program. Leigh is a digital consultant, conducting in-person and online courses for LYRASIS, a nonprofit organization with a mission of supporting information professionals. Leigh has also been an individual member of AASLH since 1996.
The webinar will be from 3-4:30 pm EASTERN time on May 31. Registration is $40 for AASLH members ($65 non-members). Organizations enrolled in the StEPs program receive the special rate of $25 by using the StEPs promo code found on the StEPs Community website. All registered participants receive the webinar recording.
This webinar is part of the AASLH StEPs Lab webinar series of online continuing education offered to both StEPs program participants and all others interested in digital collections. Applying what you learn in a lab to your policies and practices helps your organization make meaningful progress. The more progress you make, the more boxes you can check off in the StEPs workbook. The more boxes you check off, the more Bronze, Silver, and Gold certificates your organization earns. And that translates into more credibility, more support, and an organization that is a valuable asset to its community for many more years to come.
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Cherie Cook
Senior Program Manager
American Association for State and Local
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