Registration is now open for three new online courses in the* Caring for Yesterday’s Treasures—Today *series. The series, launched in January 2013, offers free online courses focused on the preservation of archival and historical collections. Tailored to fit the needs and schedules of staff and volunteers at libraries and archives, each course includes four to six 90-minute, interactive webinars presented by preservation experts.
*Registration is free.* Simply fill out our registration form on the *Connecting to Collections *Online Community, where the courses are conducted. If you’ve participated in a previous course, please register with us again. You do not need to become a member of the Online Community to participate*—*you will never need a username or password. Learn more and register here: http://www.connectingtocollections.org/newcourses/ *Course Schedule:* Fundraising for Collections Care – September 23, 25 and October 1, 3 (2-3:30 p.m. EDT) Caring for Audiovisual Materials – October 16, 21, 23, 28, 30 from (2-3:30 p.m. EDT) Outreach Activities for Collections Care – November 4, 6, 12, 14 from (2-3:30 p.m. EST) Registration will close one week prior to the start of each course. Participants will earn a certificate of completion if they view all the webinars in a course and submit simple homework assignments. Since its launch in January, five courses on a range of topics have been offered, and more than 1,500 certificates of completion have been awarded. All previous courses have been archived on the Online Community where webinar recordings, associated handouts, and resources can be found. Past topics have included collections care basics, risk evaluation, writing a disaster response plan, caring for digital materials, and caring for photographs. *Caring for Yesterday’s Treasures—Today* is made possible through an Institute of Museum and Library Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Continuing Education grant to Heritage Preservation. The website and webinars are produced by LearningTimes.
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
