Call for participants: Lantern Slide Salon

[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

Call for participants: Food From the Archives

[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

2016’s SAA Travel Grant recipients

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

2015 Treasurer’s Report

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

Ethical internships & YOU

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

Upcoming meeting: March 31 @ Penn Museum

[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

The year ahead

[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