Announcing: DVAG’s Guide to Creating and Evaluating Internships

September 2, 2016

The DVAG Planning Committee is proud to announce a new resource for both archivists and archives staff who create and manage internships and for students and new archives professionals who are working as interns. The Delaware Valley Archivists Group Guide to Internships This guide is composed of questions that anyone creating or managing an internship should … More Announcing: DVAG’s Guide to Creating and Evaluating Internships

Next meeting 9/21 at the Kislak Center, UPenn

August 31, 2016

[Posted on behalf of the DVAG Programming Committee] As summer turns to fall, please join us for the next DVAG general meeting on Wednesday, September 21st! Where: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center at the University of Pennsylvania (3420 Walnut Street). When: 3:30-5:30 pm (approximate) ***Please note that photo ID … More Next meeting 9/21 at the Kislak Center, UPenn

SAA 2016: Our Scholarship Recipients Report Back [2/2]

August 22, 2016

[Posted on behalf of DVAG SAA Travel Grant recipient, Laurie Sather. Want to hear more about SAA? Join us at Cooperage Wine & Whiskey Bar at 5:30 pm on August 22 for our post-SAA happy hour. The address is 123 S 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.] Despite having been a member of SAA for the past … More SAA 2016: Our Scholarship Recipients Report Back [2/2]

SAA 2016: Our Scholarship Recipients Report Back [1/2]

August 17, 2016

[Posted on behalf of DVAG SAA Travel Grant recipient, Rayna Andrews. Want to hear more about SAA? Join us at Cooperage Wine & Whiskey Bar at 5:30 pm on August 22 for our post-SAA happy hour. The address is 123 S 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.] During the first week of August, the Society of American … More SAA 2016: Our Scholarship Recipients Report Back [1/2]

Call for participants: Lantern Slide Salon

August 9, 2016

[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

June 21, 2016

[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

June 16, 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