RESOURCES FOR MEMBERS

Conservation & Collections Resources

General

• A Manual for Small Archives by the Archives Association of British Columbia
• Society of American Archivists
• Getty Conservation Institute
• American Library Association
• Oral History with American Folklife Center

Workshops

• Northeast Document Conservation Center
  • Fundamentals of AV Preservation
  • Preservation 101
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
  • Museum Pests
  • Fundamental of IPM Manual
• Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) Notes
• Museum Learning Hub: free webinars
• National Park Service Conserve O Grams
• Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) conservation
• Preservation 101
• Preservation Leaflets
• Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute publications
• Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) Guides & Fact Sheets

Digitization

• Copyright information 
• Digitization Cost Calculator
• Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines (FADGI)
• Rightstatements.org
• Activistʼs Guide to Archiving Video: website created by WITNESS, the global leader in human rights video. It walks through the entire life cycle of preservation, which includes everything from file naming conventions to arrangement.
• Anatomy of a Digital Project webinar series: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries of Illinois (CARLI)
• Dr. Tape-Love Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Digitize My Analog Media!: zine created by XFR Collective, a volunteer moving image archivist collective. Itʼs a printable workbook that walks you through many of the decisions you will need to make about your collection, with space for notes.
• Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI)
• How To Digitize Your Home Videos (MiniDV & VHS): video created by the Activist Archivists. Itʼs an easily accessible hands on tutorial for individuals who want to create basic stations to digitize their home video collections.
• Lyrasis Digitization Resource List
• Minimum Viable Workstation Recipes: collaborative document created by archivist Ashley Blewer. It provides detailed lists of all the equipment needed to digitize videotapes, separated by budget level.
• CARLI Digitization Best Practices for…
  ○ Images
  ○ Text
  ○ Audio
  ○ Moving Images
  ○ Three-Dimensional Objects

• Examples of Digital Exhibits

  • Field Museum Pandemic Collection
  • Envisioning Justice
  • Explore Chicago Collections
  • UIC Library Digital Collections

 Oral Histories

• Oral History Association
• Smithsonian’s extensive online guide on “How to Do Oral History” which includes recommendations for how to prepare, what questions to ask, suggestions for recording, and other essentials
• American Medina exhibit: oral history archive of interview recordings
• DANK Haus German American Cultural Center: This center launched an oral history project in 2019. The collection is still developing and has included a website and a temporary exhibit.
• Dis/Placements: public history project, which includes several oral histories
• Haitian American Museum of Chicago: The museum has a space to listen to the interviews on site and also maintains a web page dedicated to this material.
• Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center: Their interactive exhibit preserves memories of Holocaust survivors as interactive holograms.
• Korean Cultural Center of Chicago: They started collecting interviews with Korean adoptees and sharing them on YouTube. 
• National Hellenic Museum: Visit the museum to see examples of stations where visitors record their own memories as well as listen to recordings of interviews.
  • Here is additional information about the Frank S. Kamberos Oral History Center.

Supplies

• Gaylord Archival
• Hollinger Metal Edge
• Talas
• University Products