News & announcements

Needing to brush up on your MARC skills? Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington is hosting day-long Society of American Archivists Workshop: MARC for Archival Description on Friday March 30th from 9am-5pm. 15 registrants by the early bird registration deadline on February 28th is needed to hold the workshop.

Note the deadline extension!

A message from the Sustainable Heritage Network:

Apply NOW to the Digital POWRR Digital Preservation Professional Development Institute!
The Digital POWRR team invites applications for the second of five 2-day institutes. Sponsored by the The Sustainable Heritage Network, the institute will be held on April 28-29, 2018 in Warm Springs, OR at the Kah-Nee-Ta Resort and Spa, in conjunction with the Northwest Archivists 2018 Annual Meeting. The institute is free to attend (no registration fee) and scholarships are available to help defray travel expenses, courtesy of IMLS grant funding.
For more details on the POWRR Institutes, please visit the following page: http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/institutes/

Apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/Hhoux95wEfq2m0p22
(Note: we are collecting responses via Google Forms. Because we have the upload feature enabled, it will ask you to sign in to Google. If you do not have a Google account, please contact Stacey Erdman at stacey.erdman@gmail.com for a copy of the application)

Application deadline: February 2, 2018
Applicants will be notified of application status by the end of February 2018.

A message from the Sustainable Heritage Network:

Apply NOW to the Digital POWRR Digital Preservation Professional Development Institute!
The Digital POWRR team invites applications for the second of five 2-day institutes. Sponsored by the The Sustainable Heritage Network, the institute will be held on April 28-29, 2018 in Warm Springs, OR at the Kah-Nee-Ta Resort and Spa, in conjunction with the Northwest Archivists 2018 Annual Meeting. The institute is free to attend (no registration fee) and scholarships are available to help defray travel expenses, courtesy of IMLS grant funding.
For more details on the POWRR Institutes, please visit the following page: http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/institutes/

Apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/Hhoux95wEfq2m0p22
(Note: we are collecting responses via Google Forms. Because we have the upload feature enabled, it will ask you to sign in to Google. If you do not have a Google account, please contact Stacey Erdman at stacey.erdman@gmail.com for a copy of the application)

Application deadline: February 2, 2018
Applicants will be notified of application status by the end of February 2018.

The 2018 Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting will take place April 25-27, 2018 in Warm Springs, Oregon. This will be the first conference in recent years held in a federally-recognized Tribal nation. This year’s conference theme, Stewarding Collections, Engaging Communities, speaks to the role of archives within the larger ecosystem of cultural resource management. On a broader level, the theme asks us to consider how we, as archivists, care for collections to the benefit of present and future generations.

You can view the official Call for Proposals here: http://northwestarchivistsinc.wildapricot.org/Call-for-Proposals-2018

The rest of the 2018 webpage will be populated as information becomes available.

We are in the process of examining and re-envisioning NWA’s communications strategy. Crystal Rodgers, in collaboration with departing Easy Access Editor Jennifer Greenwood and the NWA Board, have crafted a survey to better inform the process and ensure we are meeting the needs of our membership. We want to hear from you and hope you will take a few minutes to let us know what information you would like to receive from NWA and how you would like it delivered by completing the survey! The survey will be open through Monday, November 6. Thank you for your participation! 

Take SURVEY 

A revised version of the DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) principles are now available, and the Technical Subcommittee is currently looking for feedback! Deadline to submit comments is July 1. 

To make comments on the revised principles, they are suggesting the following methods: 

"There are two ways to send feedback -- as a group (this is the method we encourage), or as an individual.

As a group:

1. Find your community. This may be the people you work with, or it may be archivists in your town or city whom you enjoy sharing ideas with. Perhaps you could do this as a Skype call with your former classmates, or twitter archivists could find a time to come together. You may choose to lead a group at a local, regional, or national conference. We want to hear from as many people as possible!
2. Find a discussion group leader, and make sure that this leader takes time to think about how to facilitate a productive and inclusive conversation. Use our facilitators’ guide to help prepare.
3. Have an awesome discussion, keep notes, and use our discussion guide to keep on track.
4. Tell us what you think! Use our feedback form to report back about what your group discussed.

As an individual:

1. Do the reading. It may be helpful to read not only the proposed DACS principles, but also the current ones. We’ve also included a list of articles that we consulted during the revision process.
2. Do some thinking. In particular, think about this from the point of view of the people who use your archives. How would principled description, in accordance with this text, improve their experience? Are there any ways that they would produce a diminished experience?
3. Tell us what you think! Use our feedback form to let us know what you think works about the revised DACS principles and what could use more thought.

We look forward to receiving your feedback by July 1, 2017." 

Hello conference attendees,

Thanks for making last week's joint conference such a success! We hope you will spend a few moments taking this survey as it will provide us with valuable feedback about the meeting. We look forward to knowing what we did right and what we could improve on in future meetings. 

CIMA/NWA 2017 Joint Meeting Survey

Please respond by June 9. 

Thank you,

CIMA/NWA Program Committee

CIMA/NWA Local Arrangements Committee

The online shop where you can purchase NWA 40th Anniversary swag is now live! Includes a rad t-shirt, tote bag, and even a set of golf balls, all featuring the anniversary logo. Show up to the 40th parties at CIMA/NWA 2017 and SAA 2017 in style- or is that the equivalent of wearing a t-shirt of the band you're seeing at a concert? Oh well! Who cares?! 

http://www.cafepress.com/northwestarchivists

The Programming Committee would like to determine which of our meeting sessions will require larger rooms based on expected attendance. Please help us out by filling out this quick survey of the sessions you plan to attend. Here's a link to the program if you need further information to decide on a session: https://goo.gl/sQXCio. 

Take the survey at: https://tinyurl.com/lea8nvk.

The Northwest Archivists Executive Board seeks to gather membership feedback regarding our professional development and continuing education offerings. Each year only a handful of members apply for NWA’s $6,000 in awards and scholarships. The Board is therefore interested in realigning its professional development activities to better target member priorities and interests and to alleviate the barriers to applying.

Please provide feedback through this quick survey:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8J3D5DH. 

Thank you for your participation. Your feedback is extremely valuable.

Thanks,

Northwest Archivists Executive Board