[posted on behalf of Lynn Dorwaldt] Archives Month is fast approaching and the Wagner Free Institute of Science will be hosting the Fourth Annual Lantern Slide Salon on Thursday, October 13th from 6-8 PM. The Lantern Slide Salon has continually been a popular and engaging event where archivists and the public come together and learn about … More Call for participants: Lantern Slide Salon
[Posted on behalf of the Archives Month Philly Planning Team] Hello fellow archivists and friends-of-the archives! Now that Archives Month Philly planning is coming into full swing, have you been wondering how your institution could be involved? Do you have recipes, cooking instruments, photographs of food, or other food-related material in your archives? If you … More Call for participants: Food From the Archives
Posted on behalf of the New Jersey State Archives. In celebration of New Jersey Day, the anniversary of the founding of New Jersey in 1664, several of the State’s cultural agencies have put together a series of exhibits and programs for Friday, June 24, 2016, on the 1st Floor of 225 West State Street, Trenton, N.J. … More New Jersey Day Celebration 6/24/2016
DVAG would like to congratulate the recipients of the 2016 SAA Annual Meeting Travel Grant: Rayna Andrews and Laurie Sather! Rayna Andrews is a Special Collections Assistant at University of Pennsylvania Special Collections in Philadelphia, PA. Laurie Sather is the Audiovisual Archivists at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE. After the conference (August 1-6), watch … More 2016’s SAA Travel Grant recipients
Last year we hosted some great meetings, supported a Philly-area archivist attending the Society of American Archivists’ Annual Meeting in Cleveland, helped a local digital humanities group keep merrily rolling along, put on some great Archivists Being Awesome events, and supported the fabulous schedule of programming during Archives Month! Want to know how we paid … More 2015 Treasurer’s Report
Our meeting Wednesday, 5/11 at the Wagner Institute of Free Science was both well attended and well received! The town hall meeting was anchored by a talk on the ethics of internships by Rebecca Goldman, the Head of Archives & Digital Initiatives at La Salle University. Rebecca’s presentation is available here via La Salle Digital commons, complete with … More Ethical internships & YOU
[Posted on behalf of the Programming Committee] In the spirit of the 2016 election season, our next DVAG meeting will be a town-hall forum on archival internships and we want to hear from YOU! When: Wednesday, May 11th at 6:00 pm Where: Wagner Free Institute of Science (1700 West Montgomery Avenue) As Archives Gig’s recent … More Next meeting 5/11 @ Wagner Institute
The Penn Museum hosted an audiovisual-themed DVAG meeting on March 31… … More Caring for A/V Collections (3/31/2016)
[Posted on behalf of the Programming Committee] Please join us on Thursday, March 31st for our first DVAG meeting of 2016! Where: Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology When: 3:00-5:00 pm (approximate) Our meeting topic is the care and management of audiovisual materials, with a fantastic panel of speakers exploring a wide range of issues, from the … More Upcoming meeting: March 31 @ Penn Museum
[posted on behalf of the Vice-Chair and the Programming Committee] Greetings, DVAG members! It’s hard to believe, but 2016 is upon us and it’s already February. Punxsutawney Phil has predicted an early spring and that’s great news because it means another year of awesome DVAG and ABA programming will be here before we know … More The year ahead
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