Community Archiving Workshop
Sunday, August 24, 2025 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Orange County, CA (location TBD)
The Community Archiving Workshop is a one-day workshop that centers community building and collections care. It brings together archivists and community volunteers to support the inspection and inventory of an audiovisual (film, video, audio) collection of a local organization. Participants get hands-on training that they can use to address the challenges of their own collections. The workshop was designed to address audiovisual collections, but it can be applied to all material types, including mixed media and digital collections. Past partners found the Community Archiving Workshop to be a great way to kick start processing and preservation planning of collections while learning from professionals. Held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) this workshop will serve communities and collections in the Orange County area. Registration will be available through the SAA and CAW.
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTNERS
We are seeking a Host Site in Orange County and Collections Partners (organizations with unprocessed collections of audiovisual materials) to participate in the workshop scheduled for August 24. Selected organizations will bring unprocessed collections of audiovisual materials to the workshop. Under the supervision of audiovisual professionals, the materials will be inspected, labeled, and inventoried by teams of workshop participants. Community Archiving Workshop members will provide the partnering organizations with a prioritized inventory and preservation recommendations after the workshop. Following the workshop, collections partners and host sites will receive a $1,000 stipend to support their preservation goals.
Please fill out this survey to the best of your knowledge by June 14, 2025 and we will contact you soon with further questions and details.
For more information on being a host site or collections partner: Info for Potential Partners
If you have any questions, please email communityarchivingworkshop@gmail.com. Thank you!