Instructor: Jeanette Bergeron, Archivist
This full-day workshop will combine lectures and hands-on exercises to teach
participants how to arrange, describe and store a variety of papers and other
records. The lecture portions will be based on the nationally recognized “Basics
of Archives” training program and the instructor’s own “Manual for South
Carolina archives and recordkeeping.” The class will work with traditional
paper documents (correspondence, minutes, reports, email, diaries and journals,
financial records), floppy disks, scrapbooks, as well as image materials (photographs,
negatives, CDs,
blueprints). The course will specifically address appraisal, types of records
value (historical, legal, archival, financial), arrangement options, provenance,
original order, determination of records classes (as well as fonds and series),
various types of description and their chief elements (DACS, MARC, EAD, finding
aids, inventories), and the new concepts of minimal processing to bring
collections to users faster.
One class is scheduled for 2010:
Instructors: Heather South, Preservation Officer and Marie Ferrara, Special
Collections Archivist
Disasters come in all shapes and sizes and can happen anytime to anyone. It is
vital to start thinking about planning today so that your valuable and critical
collections are protected. This full-day workshop will combine lectures and a
hands-on mock disaster to teach participants how to recover wet books and
documents as well as other media that can be found in their collections. During
the lecture portion, we will delve into defining disasters and the details
involved in planning for them as well as sharing disaster experiences and
images. We will also be introducing you to new tools and resources to help you
establish your own disaster plan or if you have a plan, tips on making it
current.
Two classes are scheduled for 2010:
*Send payment to:
Heather South, Preservation Officer
SC Department of Archives and History
8301 Parklane Road
Columbia, SC 29223
Checks must be made payable to PALMCOP
Registration fee is non-refundable; substitutions
are allowed.