Is your archives a box under your desk or a closet down the hall that remains a mystery to you? Only have an hour or so a month to devote to your archives? Don’t know where to start or why? We got you!
In this session, archivist Nathan Georgitis, will guide you through the first steps of engaging your archival collection. Nathan reviews archives management basics for cultural heritage professionals, including theory and principles, care and handling, storage and security, and arrangement and description.
Workshop PPT (PDF)
About the Facilitator
Nathan Georgitis is an archivist and folklorist with 20 years of experience managing multi-format, ethnographic collections for academic libraries, tribal repositories, folklore archives, and public radio stations. Nathan provides consulting services and serves as executive director for the Association for Recorded Sound Collections and contract archivist for HistoryIT.
