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archival mgt for curators workshop



Title: Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations

 

Archival Management for Curators

 

You have happily been a curator, volunteer or paid, for years.  You’re comfortable working with objects – accessioning, numbering, storing, cataloging.  Now you have to work with your institutions two-dimensional materials – institutional archives, manuscripts, records collections, maps, photographs, sound recordings.  What do you do?

 

Archival management is fundamentally different from artifact collections management.  Attend this workshop to learn about archival management and how the differences have an impact upon your processes.  How do you number archives collections?  How do you organize archival materials?  When should you leave them as you found them?  Should your institution maintain a separate archival collection?  How do you describe these materials and make them available to the public?  How do you maintain security over them?  What supplies do you use?

 

Participants will receive copies of Organizing Archival Records by David Carmicheal as part of their registration.


Presenter

 

Valerie A. Metzler is an independent archivist and historian in private practice, based in Altoona, Pennsylvania.  She has worked with many historical societies and museums in the Commonwealth to process collections and train staff to work with archival collections.  Prior to entering private practice in 1985, she worked in public manuscript repositories and a business archives.

 

The fee for this workshop is $20, which includes morning coffee, lunch, handouts, and a copy of Organizing Archival Records by David Carmicheal.

 

This workshop series is a component of the State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) Regrant Project, funded by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).  The project is designed to support SHRAB’s ten-year strategic plan to preserve and enhance public access to the Commonwealth’s documentary heritage.

 

For more information, contact the PA Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations at 717/787-3253 or email pamuseums@pamuseums.org: website: www.pamuseums.org