Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network Funding Opportunities

DPOE-N Support Funding: Call for Applications

The Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N) is excited to announce two new opportunities for funding available to cultural heritage professionals and institutions located in the United States and U.S. territories for digital preservation training and hardware support. 

About DPOE-N Funding

DPOE-N offers professional development support for cultural heritage professionals to attend online workshops and face-to-face training (when traveling is appropriate) focused on digital preservation and access. Funding can be used within a network of available professional development providers and can cover more than one workshop.

DPOE-N staff are also available to work with you to develop a professional development program that fits your needs. For more information on professional development support, and to apply, please visit: https://www.dpoe.network/professional-development-support/ 

DPOE-N has also set aside a modest amount of funding for emergency hardware support to small cultural heritage institutions that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and are in need of new hardware to ensure the persistence of digital collections with enduring value. For more information about emergency hardware support, please visit: https://www.dpoe.network/emergency-hardware-support/

Interested in applying?
DPOE-N staff is available to help you with the application process and to answer any questions you may have. Please contact us at dpoe-n@pratt.edu.

About DPOE-N

DPOE-N is a network of training resources available to cultural heritage professionals nationwide to enhance their digital preservation knowledge and skills. We are motivated by the pressing need for libraries, archives, and museums to collect, preserve, and provide access to born-digital materials. DPOE-N is hosted by the Pratt Institute School of Information in collaboration with the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Program at New York University (NYU)’s Tisch School of the Arts, and generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

To learn more about DPOE-N, please visit our website at https://www.dpoe.network/ and follow us on Twitter @dpoe_network.

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SCAA Annual Meeting Announcement

The South Carolina Archival Association (SCAA) announces its 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, to be held on Friday, October 16, 2020, via Zoom, from 8:30am to 5:15pm EDT. The slate of sessions ranges from individual and group presentations to panel discussions and includes the annual business meeting.

This meeting features opening and closing keynotes by Dr. Tiffany Momon of the University of the South and Sarah Calise of Middle Tennessee State University, both archivists and activists whose work focuses on and is devoted to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the archival profession and in archival collections. Dr. Momon and Ms. Calise will be addressing those issues and strategies in their keynote presentations.

For the SCAA Executive Board statement on racism and recent events in America, adopted by the board on June 11, 2020, see the SCAA website at

http://www.scarchivists.org/index.php/46-scaa/273-scaa-statement-on-racism-and-recent-events

 The South Carolina Archival Association, founded in 1999, is a statewide association of individuals interested in the management of, preservation of, and access to South Carolina's historical records. SCAA membership is diverse, including those who work as archivists at historical societies, museums, colleges and universities, churches, state, county, and municipal governments, and other institutions, and ranging from volunteers to full-time professional manuscript curators and archivists.

 REGISTRATION

There is no charge to attend the Annual Meeting but you do have to register. The registration form can be found at https://forms.gle/aZ6GjWjRL3w4v8pQA and on SCAA’s Events page at http://scarchivists.org/index.php/events.  

 Also on the Events page is the Program for the Annual Meeting. The Program contains links to all of the Zoom sessions except for the Business Meeting. Links for the Business Meeting will be sent to SCAA members in a separate email along with a link to the officer reports for 2020.

 We look forward to seeing you at the Meeting!

 Jim Cross

President, SCAA

2020 SCAA Board slate of candidates released!

All members should have received a copy of the 2020 slate of candidates to replace vacancies on the SCAA Board. The slate will be voted on during the Business Meeting that will occur during the Annual Conference on October 16, 2020. If you did not receive the email please contact Jim Cross at jcross@clemson.edu.

SCAA Annual Meeting date

SCAA Annual Conference will be held on October 16, 2020 via Zoom. A schedule of sessions and a registration form will be out shortly.

September 10, 2020 Town Hall video up!

The video of the third SCAA Town Hall on reopening after the pandemic is now available on the South Carolina YouTube channel. The link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=551Y2_kjxeA. Please subscribe to the channel!

We are planning to add the chat transcript and a summary of the Town Hall to the SCAA website in the near future.