Current Training Programs

Join cultural heritage organizations, emergency management personnel, and government departments in Virginia for a hands-on workshop on emergency preparedness and response! This in-person workshop will supplement participating institutions’ internal disaster planning activities and include opportunities for kinetic learning. Priority will be given to registrants from Virginia.

Participants will: 

• Receive training in risk assessment and mitigation, emergency preparedness and response, and related emergency planning topics; 
• Build relationships with nearby institutions to facilitate collaboration, e.g. on policy building and supply purchases;  
• Walk through an instructor-facilitated scenario (table-top exercise) to simulate the experience of responding to a disaster;  
• Acquire hands-on experience with salvage techniques for formats commonly found in cultural collections, including books, documents, photographs, and audiovisual materials; and 
• Gain an understanding of how disasters can physically impact their collections and how they can be “first responders” for collections salvage. 

Who should attend?

This workshop is open to individuals in Virginia associated with cultural heritage organizations, such as libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies; government departments and personnel, including town clerks; and offices involved with emergency management and public safety.   

This workshop belongs to a training series taking place along the Atlantic Coast and is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, please see our project page.

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Join cultural heritage organizations, emergency management personnel, and government departments in New Jersey for a hands-on workshop on emergency preparedness and response! This in-person workshop will supplement participating institutions’ internal disaster planning activities and include opportunities for kinetic learning. Priority will be given to registrants from New Jersey.

Participants will: 

• Receive training in risk assessment and mitigation, emergency preparedness and response, and related emergency planning topics; 
• Build relationships with nearby institutions to facilitate collaboration, e.g. on policy building and supply purchases;  
• Walk through an instructor-facilitated scenario (table-top exercise) to simulate the experience of responding to a disaster;  
• Acquire hands-on experience with salvage techniques for formats commonly found in cultural collections, including books, documents, photographs, and audiovisual materials; and 
• Gain an understanding of how disasters can physically impact their collections and how they can be “first responders” for collections salvage. 

Who should attend?

This workshop is open to individuals in New Jersey associated with cultural heritage organizations, such as libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies; government departments and personnel, including town clerks; and offices involved with emergency management and public safety.   

This workshop belongs to a training series taking place along the Atlantic Coast and is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, please see our project page.

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Many applications for U.S. preservation grant opportunities are due in the Winter. Get a head start on the application process and join NEDCC for an overview of preservation grants, including eligible projects, important deadlines, and administrative steps, like creating a Grants.gov account. The presenter will also provide application tips that are useful for all programs, no matter the grant you plan to apply to.

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Field recordings, audio recordings made outside a recording studio, are unique; they are oftentimes created in uncontrolled environments with consumer-grade equipment by untrained audio recordists. This makes their long-term management and preservation especially challenging. This webinar explores the special technical challenges presented in field recordings and offers solutions for caring for your one-of-a-kind recordings. Participants will also see case studies that show a variety of audio formats and their preservation concerns.

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This webinar provides an in-depth overview of photograph digitization. Digitizing photographic collections can foster research, engage users, and help preserve the original objects, but a one-size-fits-all approach to reformatting will not provide the best results given the variety of photographic formats and processes that exist. This two-hour webinar will address prioritizing materials for reformatting based upon preservation needs, the benefits and drawbacks of various digitization methods, equipment options and workflows, and present considerations related to file formats and resolution to assist you in choosing an approach that is right for your project. While not exhaustive, the webinar will address glass- and film-based negatives and slides; daguerreotypes, ambroytpes, and tintypes; photographic prints ranging from carte-de-visites to panoramas; and photograph albums.

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Join cultural heritage organizations, emergency management personnel, and government departments in Maryland for a hands-on workshop on emergency preparedness and response! This in-person workshop will supplement participating institutions’ internal disaster planning activities and include opportunities for kinetic learning. Priority will be given to registrants from Maryland.

Participants will: 

• Receive training in risk assessment and mitigation, emergency preparedness and response, and related emergency planning topics; 
• Build relationships with nearby institutions to facilitate collaboration, e.g. on policy building and supply purchases;  
• Walk through an instructor-facilitated scenario (table-top exercise) to simulate the experience of responding to a disaster;  
• Acquire hands-on experience with salvage techniques for formats commonly found in cultural collections, including books, documents, photographs, and audiovisual materials; and 
• Gain an understanding of how disasters can physically impact their collections and how they can be “first responders” for collections salvage. 

Who should attend?

This workshop is open to individuals in Maryland associated with cultural heritage organizations, such as libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies; government departments and personnel, including town clerks; and offices involved with emergency management and public safety.   

This workshop belongs to a training series taking place along the Atlantic Coast and is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, please see our project page.

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Renovation and construction projects in your facility can present significant risks to your collections. In this webinar, you will learn the most common risks for collections, risks for personnel, strategies for risk mitigation, and issues with temporary storage.

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Join cultural heritage organizations, emergency management personnel, and government departments in Connecticut for a hands-on workshop on emergency preparedness and response! This in-person workshop will supplement participating institutions’ internal disaster planning activities and include opportunities for kinetic learning. Priority will be given to registrants from Connecticut.

Participants will: 

• Receive training in risk assessment and mitigation, emergency preparedness and response, and related emergency planning topics; 
• Build relationships with nearby institutions to facilitate collaboration, e.g. on policy building and supply purchases;  
• Walk through an instructor-facilitated scenario (table-top exercise) to simulate the experience of responding to a disaster;  
• Acquire hands-on experience with salvage techniques for formats commonly found in cultural collections, including books, documents, photographs, and audiovisual materials; and 
• Gain an understanding of how disasters can physically impact their collections and how they can be “first responders” for collections salvage. 

Who should attend?

This workshop is open to individuals in Connecticut associated with cultural heritage organizations, such as libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies; government departments and personnel, including town clerks; and offices involved with emergency management and public safety.   

This workshop belongs to a training series taking place along the Atlantic Coast and is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, please see our project page.

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Mold can pose a serious threat to cultural heritage materials. In this 1-hour webinar, participants will learn how to asses identify mold, how to safely clean moldy materials, and how to prevent future mold outbreaks through proactive preservation measures.

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Join cultural heritage organizations, emergency management personnel, and government departments in Maine for a hands-on workshop on emergency preparedness and response! This in-person workshop will supplement participating institutions’ internal disaster planning activities and include opportunities for kinetic learning. Priority will be given to registrants from Maine.

Participants will: 

• Receive training in risk assessment and mitigation, emergency preparedness and response, and related emergency planning topics; 
• Build relationships with nearby institutions to facilitate collaboration, e.g. on policy building and supply purchases;  
• Walk through an instructor-facilitated scenario (table-top exercise) to simulate the experience of responding to a disaster;  
• Acquire hands-on experience with salvage techniques for formats commonly found in cultural collections, including books, documents, photographs, and audiovisual materials; and 
• Gain an understanding of how disasters can physically impact their collections and how they can be “first responders” for collections salvage. 

Who should attend?

This workshop is open to individuals in Maine associated with cultural heritage organizations, such as libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies; government departments and personnel, including town clerks; and offices involved with emergency management and public safety.   

This workshop belongs to a training series taking place along the Atlantic Coast and is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, please see our project page.

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Early grooved audio formats may be found in many unexpected places, and their management can be intimidating due to their variety, fragility and the general lack of standardization in their production. This webinar will provide a brief overview of the history of grooved audio media, and provide guidance on the identification and management of these formats. This webinar will cover how to identify different cylinders, discs and dictation formats, and provide relevant details on their composition, characteristics and manufacturing history. Participants will finish this webinar with a better understanding of grooved audio formats and how to pragmatically prioritize and plan for their long-term preservation. 

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Does your organization need to write its first collection management policy or update one that's already been written? NEDCC's Preservation Services is here to help. This webinar will cover the essential components of a collection management policy for libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage organizations. Participants will learn how to write a collection management policy that standardizes the acquisition, management, preservation, and provision of access to collections in their organization.

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Join cultural heritage organizations, emergency management personnel, and government departments in Rhode Island for a hands-on workshop on emergency preparedness and response! This in-person workshop will supplement participating institutions’ internal disaster planning activities and include opportunities for kinetic learning. Priority will be given to registrants from Rhode Island.

Participants will: 

• Receive training in risk assessment and mitigation, emergency preparedness and response, and related emergency planning topics; 
• Build relationships with nearby institutions to facilitate collaboration, e.g. on policy building and supply purchases;  
• Walk through an instructor-facilitated scenario (table-top exercise) to simulate the experience of responding to a disaster;  
• Acquire hands-on experience with salvage techniques for formats commonly found in cultural collections, including books, documents, photographs, and audiovisual materials; and 
• Gain an understanding of how disasters can physically impact their collections and how they can be “first responders” for collections salvage. 

Who should attend?

This workshop is open to individuals in Rhode Island associated with cultural heritage organizations, such as libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies; government departments and personnel, including town clerks; and offices involved with emergency management and public safety.   

This workshop belongs to a training series taking place along the Atlantic Coast and is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, please see our project page.

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Join cultural heritage organizations, emergency management personnel, and government departments in Massachusetts for a hands-on workshop on emergency preparedness and response! This in-person workshop will supplement participating institutions’ internal disaster planning activities and include opportunities for kinetic learning. Priority will be given to registrants from Massachusetts.

Participants will: 

• Receive training in risk assessment and mitigation, emergency preparedness and response, and related emergency planning topics; 
• Build relationships with nearby institutions to facilitate collaboration, e.g. on policy building and supply purchases;  
• Walk through an instructor-facilitated scenario (table-top exercise) to simulate the experience of responding to a disaster;  
• Acquire hands-on experience with salvage techniques for formats commonly found in cultural collections, including books, documents, photographs, and audiovisual materials; and 
• Gain an understanding of how disasters can physically impact their collections and how they can be “first responders” for collections salvage. 

Who should attend?

This workshop is open to individuals in Massachusetts associated with cultural heritage organizations, such as libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies; government departments and personnel, including town clerks; and offices involved with emergency management and public safety.   

This workshop belongs to a training series taking place along the Atlantic Coast and is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, please see our project page.

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Visit NEDCC's YouTube Channel for Free Training Videos, Conservation Shorts, and more. You’ll find the playlist of free preservation training videos at https://www.nedcc.org/preservationvideos 

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Renovation and construction projects in your facility can present significant risks to your collections. In this webinar, you will learn the most common risks for collections, risks for personnel, strategies for risk mitigation, and issues with temporary storage.

Participants who are eligible Certified Archivists earn 2 Archival Recertification Credits (ARCs) through the Academy of Certified Archivists.

Duration: 2 hrs.

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Most digital preservation software uses free, smaller tools that run on the command line. This webinar introduces attendees to Windows command line tools, including ROBOCOPY, MD5DEEP, FIDO, EXIFTOOL, and BagIt. Participants will receive an introduction to the command line and a demonstration of these tools in a workflow that breaks down the steps most digital preservation software automates for you. Watch this webinar if you want to learn more about the command line, gain a deeper practical understanding of digital preservation activities, and make more informed decisions about the workflows you build. Watch Building an Easy Digital Preservation Workflow with Small Tools to learn how to use more free digital preservation tools and build your workflow.

Duration: 2 hours

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