The Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) is seeking host sites for five regional workshops to be held between September 2024 and November 2025. Deadline to apply is May 1, 2024.
The purpose of the workshop is to train tribal librarians and archivists on the handling and care of audiovisual collections, to engage local community members in processing and describing their community’s audiovisual assets, and to process a small collection of recordings in preparation for preservation. Participants will also learn how to set up and use a basic digitization station. The collaborative workshop model encourages the development of regional partnerships who can work together and support each other long after the workshop is over.
Host sites will:
- Have an opportunity to empower and engage community members in the preserving materials important to tribal history.
- Help their community gain intellectual and physical control over audiovisual collections through the actual processing of collections supervised by audiovisual specialists.
- Receive a $2,000 subaward to defray the cost of time and resources associated with hosting the workshop.
Host sites are required to:
- Be located in a region with a network of regional tribal partners to serve with this workshop.
- Assist with outreach to local/regional tribes inviting them to participate in the workshop. The workshop can accommodate between up to 40 participants.
- Provide workshop space that will fit at least 40 people working at eight tables. The space needs good light, good WIFI, and plenty of electrical outlets.
- Provide a separate space for breaks and lunch.
More information on hosting a workshop can be found here.
The purpose of the CAW workshops is to train tribal librarians and archivists on the handling and care of audiovisual collections, to engage local community members in processing and describing their community’s audiovisual assets, and to process a small collection of recordings in preparation for preservation. Participants also learn how to set up and use a basic digitization station. The collaborative workshop model encourages the development of regional partnerships who can work together and support each other long after the workshop is over.
The “Audiovisual Collections Care and Management Workshop” is part of a two-year project that builds on CAW’s previous project with ATALM which helped Native communities provide better care for AV collections. Support for the project is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
