Los Angeles Preservation Network (LAPNet)

06/29/2021

Oral History Workshop
Learn how to start an oral history program!

Mon, August 23, 2021
11am - 12:30pm PST

$15 suggested donation

In this 90-minute online session, Oral Historian Jenni Matz (Director, Television Academy Foundation Interviews) will cover a basic overview of starting an oral history project. The presentation will touch on project design, creating a budget, examples of good and not-so-good interviewing techniques, ethical and legal considerations for capturing oral histories, production concerns to consider, access to oral history collections, and preservation. Sample resources such as production checklists and release forms will be provided. The session will include a brief Q&

This workshop is geared toward those who work in libraries, archives, and museums and are considering building an oral history program or hoping to expand an existing project.

A Zoom link will be sent to registrants prior to event.

About the presenter:

Jenni Matz is an oral historian, MLIS- archivist, documentary filmmaker, and attorney. Jenni has been an oral historian for the Television Academy Interviews since 2006 and its Director since 2014. She oversees the long-term planning and preservation of the Academy’s digital video archive and conducts many of its interviews. Matz co-designed the award-winning website, Television Academy Interviews, which provides full-text searchable access to over 4,000 hours of catalogued, indexed, time-stamped content.

Prior to her tenure at the Academy, Jenni co-founded the American Comedy Archives at Emerson College and produced and edited numerous documentary films for WGBH’s award-winning American Passages series, the History Channel, MSNBC, ABC News, and Oregon Public Broadcasting, among others. Jenni received her Masters in Library and Information Sciences from Simmons College in 2006, and her JD from Southwestern Law School in 2016. She is a regular speaker on oral history practice at the Oral History Association and the Association of Moving Image Archivists.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oral-history-a-to-z-tickets-156577895701

10/07/2020

Disaster plans for collections-based institutions have long included playbooks for responding to a variety of disasters such as fire and flood. This year, institutions were confronted with a unique challenge; a global pandemic that closed doors and sent entire workforces home and away from collections.

Join us on Thursday, 10/29 at noon for a conversation with Susan Broman (Assistant City Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library), Lisa Forman (Associate Conservator, Getty Research Institute), and Chela Metzger (Head, Library Conservation Center, UCLA) as they discuss the unprecedented events of this year, what guiding principles have been used in making decisions for their institutions, and some of the unexpected positives that have emerged in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.

We are limiting this event to 500 attendees.

Register in advance for this FREE webinar:

https://oscars.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9Vqh8KdZRMajxBso7hGZiA

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

04/15/2019

Upcoming SCTPG workshop on Map Cataloging

The Southern California Technical Processes Group (SCTPG) is hosting a map cataloging workshop on Friday, May 10! This full-day workshop, held at the lovely Huntington in San Marino, focuses primarily on print maps and print atlases, and will also briefly cover globes, digital maps, and other cartographic content. It includes PowerPoint slides, lots of exercises, lots of audience participation, a game or two, and a manual for each participant. It is informative and fun!

Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of cataloging but need not have any experience cataloging maps. Experienced map catalogers are welcome as well.

When: May 10, 2019
Where: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Presenter: Manuel Urrizola, UC Riverside

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/map-cataloging-workshop-tickets-60240476888

03/27/2019

The Pepperdine Libraries are pleased to announce a one-day symposium, Balancing Preservation and Access in the Twenty-First Century.

While collecting institutions have always navigated the tensions between preservation and access, the twenty-first century has introduced a range of new affordances and challenges. Featuring plenary speaker Michèle Cloonan (Dean Emerita and Professor, Simmons University School of Library and Information Science), this one-day symposium will also bring together panelists from institutions across Southern California to discuss shifting theoretical and technological frontiers governing how rare materials are preserved, housed, and used in contemporary cultural heritage institutions.

Date: Thursday, May 16, 2019
Time: 8:30 AM-3:30 PM
Location: Payson Library, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

Registration is free and lunch will be provided.

Find out more and register here:

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07/13/2018

Basic Photography Conservation Workshop 8/22!

This session will focus on basic treatment techniques used to conserve and preserve traditional silver gelatin photographs and 20th century color photographs. The workshop will include lectures, demonstrations, identification exercises, and hands-on treatments practicum designed to help participants...

03/28/2018

‪LAPNet ePADD workshop at The Getty w/ esteemed ePADD speakers from the mighty Stanford University happening right now! ‬

03/13/2018

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Appraising, Processing and Providing Access to Email Collections with ePADD This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge and experience to begin to implement ePADD at their institution, in order to appraise, process, and provide access to email archives in their collections. Participan...

02/09/2018

Tickets on sale now for ePADD Workshop, March 28, 2018

Appraising, Processing and Providing Access to Email Collections with ePADD

This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge and experience to begin to implement ePADD at their institution, in order to appraise, process, and provide access to email archives in their collections.

Participants will learn how to ingest email from MBOX files or through an IMAP connection, the processes ePADD carries out upon ingest (de-duplication, name resolution, named entity recognition/classification), how to instruct a donor on appraising and transferring their own email, how to use browse and search features to screen for and restrict confidential or sensitive messages and attachments, how to annotate messages, how to assign authority records to correspondents using ePADD, and how to export mail between ePADD modules. Participants will also learn how researchers can use these same tools within ePADD to discover, browse, and search relevant messages, including how they can review and request specific messages and attachments.

The workshop will also include discussion on overcoming potential implementation challenges, as well as opportunities to participate in ePADD‘s development. The workshop will be beneficial for all those with a responsibility or interest in processing and/or providing access to email archives.

The workshop will be co-taught by Peter Chan, Digital Archivist, Stanford University (ePADD Project Manager) and Josh Schneider, Assistant University Archivist, Stanford University (ePADD Community Manager).

DATE AND TIME
Wed, March 28, 2018, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PDT

LOCATION
Getty Research Institute at Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90049

TICKETS
$60, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/appraising-processing-and-providing-access-to-email-collections-with-epadd-tickets-42656571955


Room location: coming soon!

Parking details: coming soon!

Questions? Please contact [email protected]

Appraising, Processing and Providing Access to Email Collections with ePADD This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge and experience to begin to implement ePADD at their institution, in order to appraise, process, and provide access to email archives in their collections. Participan...

01/12/2018

SAVE THE DATE: BitCurator Users Forum 2018

The BitCurator Consortium (BCC) is very excited to announce that the 2018 BitCurator Users Forum will be held September 13-14, 2018, on the campus of BCC member University of California, Los Angeles. We are delighted to be hosting the BitCurator Users Forum on the west coast and look forward to organizing a stimulating and engaging event! Further details regarding registration logistics and a call for proposals will be issued in March 2018. In an effort to make the Forum accessible to as many people as possible, the BCC is committed to ensuring the registration fees associated with the forum are reasonable. Program details, registration, and lodging information will soon be available here.

About the Forum:
The BitCurator Users Forum brings together representatives from libraries, archives, museums, and related information professions engaged in (or considering) digital forensics work to acquire, better understand, and make available born-digital materials. The two-day forum will balance discussion of theory and practice of digital forensics and related digital analysis workflows with hands-on activities for users at all levels of experience with the BitCurator environment, digital forensics methods in general, and other tools for use in digital analysis and curation.

About the University of California, Los Angeles:
The UCLA Library creates a vibrant nexus of ideas, collections, expertise, and spaces in which users illuminate solutions for local and global challenges. We constantly evolve to advance UCLA’s research, education, and public service mission by empowering and inspiring communities of scholars and learners to discover, access, create, share, and preserve knowledge. UCLA is located in LA's Westwood neighborhood, 10 miles from LAX and 16 miles from the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. Summary information for travel to campus can be found here.

The BitCurator Users Forum is organized by the BCC’s Program Committee:
Laura Alagna, Northwestern University
Matthew Farrell, Duke University
Sam Meister, Educopia
Shira Peltzman, University of California, Los Angeles
Edson Smith, University of California, Los Angeles
Amy Wickner, University of Maryland, College Park

September 13-14, 2018 University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA The BitCurator Consortium (BCC) is very excited to announce that the 2018 BitCurator Users Forum will be held September 13-14, 2018, on the campus of BCC member University of California, Los Angeles. We are delighted to be h...

12/10/2017

Protecting Cultural Collections: Disaster Prevention, Preparedness, Response & Recovery workshop at the Huntington Library. Led by Julie Page sponsored by Western States & Territories Preservation Assistance Service (WESTPAS) and Co-Sponsored by Los Angeles Preservation Network (LAPNet) and the California Preservation Program (CPP).

11/17/2017

Save the Date! ePADD Workshop, March 28, 2018

LAPNet is excited to host the upcoming workshop:
Appraising, Processing, and Providing Access to Historical Email Collections with ePADD

When: Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 1-5pm
Where: Getty Research Institute at Getty Center

This workshop will provide participants with the knowledge and experience to begin to implement ePADD at their institution, in order to appraise, process, and provide access to email archives in their collections.

Participants will learn how to ingest email from MBOX files or through an IMAP connection, the processes ePADD carries out upon ingest (de-duplication, name resolution, named entity recognition/classification), how to instruct a donor on appraising and transferring their own email, how to use browse and search features to screen for and restrict confidential or sensitive messages and attachments, how to annotate messages, how to assign authority records to correspondents using ePADD, and how to export mail between ePADD modules. Participants will also learn how researchers can use these same tools within ePADD to discover, browse, and search relevant messages, including how they can review and request specific messages and attachments.

The workshop will also include discussion on overcoming potential implementation challenges, as well as opportunities to participate in ePADD‘s development. The workshop will be beneficial for all those with a responsibility or interest in processing and/or providing access to email archives.

The workshop will be co-taught by Peter Chan, Digital Archivist, Stanford University (ePADD Project Manager) and Josh Schneider, Assistant University Archivist, Stanford University (ePADD Community Manager).

Stay tuned for more info from LAPNet!