Recorded Webinar: Uncovering Hidden History: How Small History Organizations Benefit from Having an Archives
Recorded On: 06/20/2018
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Documents, letters, diaries, photographs and other archival collections held by small museums and local organizations contain rich history that often goes unexplored because staff and volunteers don’t have time to fully process the materials. Unprocessed archival collections are also physically inaccessible, adding yet another layer of complications that make their use by staff, volunteers, researchers, and others even more unlikely. And while intentions by the museum or local organization to care for these materials are good and honorable, long term preservation suffers if the items are not stored properly.
Here’s where small museums, historical societies, churches, fraternal organizations, and other groups can take a lesson from archivists. Join us for this webinar as we look at how your organization can begin to take steps to implement some archival methods of organizing paper collections differently than how you process artifact donations. We’ll discuss the benefits of having better organized collections and a much richer history to share with your community. We will also talk about the hazards of leaving archival collections unprocessed. Participants will hear about a variety of resources available to help small museums and local groups take the first steps in organizing their archives.
This AASLH webinar is part of the StEPs Lab webinar series offered to both StEPs participants and all others interested in archival management. Applying what you learn in a StEPs Lab to your policies and practices helps your organization make meaningful progress. This is StEPs Lab 14. Learn more about StEPs, AASLH’s self-study, self-paced assessment program designed specifically for small- to mid-sized history organizations, including volunteer-run institutions.
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