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  • Students and Early Career Professionals Monthly Meeting

    • 20 Oct 2025
    • 20 Apr 2026
    • 7 sessions
    • Zoom

    Greetings from the Special Interest Section for Students and Early Career Professionals!

    We would like to invite ACA members interested in the SIS to join us in discussing our sections current goals and objectives."

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  • Online Workshop: Preserving Moving Image Film and Outsourcing Digitization

    • 21 May 2026
    • 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
    • Via Zoom
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    Preserving Moving Image Film and Outsourcing Digitization


    Thursday May 21 at 2:30 - 4:00 EST

    Instructor: Christina Stewart

    This workshop is designed for all archivists with the goal of demystifying the world of moving image film and its digitization. Nearly all archives have film materials, but not the traditional equipment to make the content accessible. This workshop aims to make that content come to life again by focusing on where and how to start a digitization project. The topics covered will be film identification and preservation, understanding digitization services, budgets, what questions to ask vendors, and finally how to prep your film materials for digitization. By the end of the workshop, archivists will have a clearer understanding of their materials, the services they will need, but also the confidence to talk to vendors. Participants are asked to bring questions and collection scenarios for discussion.

    Zoom link will be provided to registrants the day before the workshop. 


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  • Special Interest Section Indigenous Archives

    • 29 May 2026
    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • via Zoom
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  • ACA 2026 Virtual Conference

    • 8 Jun 2026
    • 11:00 AM
    • 11 Jun 2026
    • 11:00 PM
    • Online Via Pheedloop
    • 123 registrants
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    For archivists handling the everyday operations of today’s archives, the connection to archival theory and academic concepts learned at school or read in academic publications can be somewhat tenuous. Particularly in smaller organizations where limitations of staff and resources can necessitate practical, creative, and out-of-the-box solutions - the abstract role of archival theory can be hard to discern.

    The ACA 2026 Virtual Conference explores the connections (and disconnections) between theories of archival practice and the daily realities and challenges archivists face. We will hear about the work being done by archivists across (and beyond) the discipline to address challenges particular to circumstance, whether it be engaging systematically marginalized communities, preservation on a budget, or implementing the Reconciliation Framework released by the Steering Committee on Canada’s Archives.


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  • Introduction to Digital Preservation Workshop

    • 8 Jul 2026
    • 9 Jul 2026
    • 2 sessions
    • Via Zoom
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    Introduction to Digital Preservation

    Wednesday July 8 at 2:00 - 3:30 EST

    Thursday July 9 at 2:00 - 3:30 EST

    Instructor: Mary Grace Kosta

    This two-part workshop series will provide an introduction to digital preservation with a focus on strategies for archives with limited resources. The topics covered will include:

    • Preservation issues concerning digital records 
    • Preservation strategies and actions (including fixity checks for integrity) 
    • Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model 
    • National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Levels of Preservation 
    • Documentation including policy 
    • Workflow steps: inventory, select and acquire, ingest, store, access 
    • File formats 
    • Metadata 
    • Hardware and software needed (write blocker, floppy disk reader, DVD and CD player, software like DROID and Bagger) 
    • Storage options (cloud, NAS server, tape, consortium) 
    • Navigating institutional barriers including budget constraints, institutional resistance, technical barriers

    Zoom link will be provided to registrants the day before the workshop. 


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  • Special Interest Section Indigenous Archives

    • 31 Jul 2026
    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • via Zoom
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  • Basics of Email Preservation Workshop

    • 19 Nov 2026
    • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
    • Via Zoom
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    Basics of Email Preservation Workshop

    Thursday November 19 at 2:00 - 3:30 EST

    Instructor: Jonathan Ennis

    This workshop offers an overview of the fundamentals of email preservation, exploring why preserving email is both essential and complex. Participants will be introduced to common email preservation formats, methods for downloading email from several major providers, approaches to processing and providing access using ePADD, and best practices for determining which emails should be preserved.

    The session builds on a presentation originally delivered for the Society of American Archivists’ Archivists of Religious Collections Section and incorporates research developed in preparation for collecting and preserving email accounts from Moravian congregations and agencies. The updated workshop will include refreshed content reflecting recent developments in the field, as well as practical insights drawn from this evolving case study.

    Instructor Bio:

    Jonathan Ennis received his undergraduate degree from Moravian University in 2008 and his master's in Library and Information Science from Drexel University in 2011. He has been working at the Moravian Archive, Bethlehem, since 2018. He is responsible for the Archives' digitization projects, including scanning and maintenance of digitized material, processing and storage of born digital material, and digitization requests from researchers.

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