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Upcoming Events:
Note: registration is limited and required for these events. Please register through the registration links at right.
| Date | Time | Topic | Presenter | Registration Link |
| Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Introduction to ArchivesSpace | Meaghan O'Riordan, Moravian Church in America, Southern Province | Register here. |
| Thursday, June 5, 2025 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Description (DACS / Describing Archives: A Content Standard) | Nicole Menchise, Long Island Library Resources Council | Registration link coming soon! |
| Thursday, October, 9, 2025 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Email Preservation | Jonathan Ennis, Moravian Church in America, Northern Province | Registration link coming soon! |
Note: Archival Chat Sessions are not recorded.
| Date | Time | Topic | Presenter | Registration Link |
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| Date | Time | Topic | Presenter | Recording Link (if available) |
| Monday, April 25, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EDT | Introduction to Planning for Digitization Projects | Beaudry Allen, Villanova University |
Recording available on YouTube. |
| Friday, May 6, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EDT | How to Talk to Management about Archives | Lisa Gibbon, Congregation of St. Joseph Archives & Records Retention |
Session not recorded. |
| Friday, May 13, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EDT | The Importance of Religious Archives | Malachy McCarthy, Claretian Missionaries Archives USA-Canada |
Recording available on YouTube. |
| Friday, May 20, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EDT | Making Archive Digital Spaces Accessible | Lisa Snider, Access Changes Everything |
Recording available on YouTube. |
| Friday, June 3, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EDT | Archival Outreach | Carey Pallister, Consultant |
Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 7:00-8:00 PM EDT | Social Justice and Catholic Nuns - How Archives Support Research | Sara Ludewig, Library of Congress |
Session not recorded. |
| Friday, July 8, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EDT | The Construction of an Archival Vault | Junia Papas, Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph |
Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, July 14, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EDT | Sharing Collection Highlights | Janice Rosen, Canadian Jewish Archives |
Session not recorded. |
| Friday, August 12, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EDT | Outreach Lesson Planning | Scott Keefer, Daughters of Charity |
Recording available on YouTube. |
| Friday, August 19, 2022 |
3:00-4:00 PM EDT |
How to tackle unprocessed collections |
Erin Louthen, Santa Clara University |
Session not recorded. |
| Friday, September 2, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EDT | Reference Services | Nadia Nasr, Santa Clara University |
Recording available on YouTube. |
| Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EDT | Introduction to AtoM | Jody Robinson, Bishop University, and Mary Grace Kosta, Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada Archives |
Recording available on YouTube. |
| Friday, November 18, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EST | Archive-It | Catherine Falls and Raven Germain, Internet Archive |
Recording available on YouTube. |
| Wednesday, December 14, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 PM EST | Tabernacles of Memory - Congregational Archives: Rooting Us in the Past, Preparing Us For the Future | Sister Susan Durkin, Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland; Sister Ginger Downey, Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, January 19, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM EST | History and Planning for the Boston College Catholic Religious Archives Repository | Michael Burns | Session not recorded. |
| Tuesday, January 31, 2023 | 7:00-8:00 PM EST | Social Justice and Catholic Nuns | Sara Ludewig, Library of Congress | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, February 16, 2023 | 12:00-1:00 PM EST | Flickr Commons | George Oates, Flickr Foundation | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, March 16, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM EST | Delivering a volunteer program | Mary Grace Kosta, CSJ Archives | Session not recorded. |
| Friday, April 14, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Copyright (US) | Russell L. Gasero, Reformed Church in America | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 12:00-1:00 PM ET | NDSA Levels of Preservation | Jenny Mitcham, Digital Preservation Coalition; Nathan Tallman, Penn State | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, May 4, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Sacred Scripts: Old German Script (Kurrent) | Thomas McCullough, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, May 18, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Keeping bits together: An introduction to digital preservation | Grant Hurley, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, July 6, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) | Jerry Simmons and Dina Herbert, National Archives and Records Administration | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, July 13, 2023 | 4:00-5:30 PM ET | Annual Meeting: Problems unique to religious archives | Panel: Russell Gasero, Erin Louthen, Nan Cano, Sarah Waits, and Jeff Anderson; Moderator: Taffey Hall | Session not recorded. |
| Thursday, July 20, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Access and Accessibility: Transcribing handwriting with From the Page | Jeremy Heil, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, August 17, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Copyright (Canada) | Lisa Macklem, Western University, London, Ontario | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Monday, September 18, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Environment, storage, and integrated pest management | Holly Fiedler, Sisters of St. Francis; Iona McCraith, Archives Consultant | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Digitizing images to FADGI standards | Locrin Stewart, City of Toronto Archives | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Wednesday, November 16, 2023 | 1:00-2:00 PM ET | How to write for American Archivist | Amy Cooper Cary, Editor of the American Archivist | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Monday, November 20, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Archival arrangement for beginners: What they don’t teach you in school | Samantha Thompson, Region of Peel Archives | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, November 30, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Moving the Immaculate Heart of Mary Archives to University of Southern California | Nan Cano, Immaculate Heart Community of California | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | How to start an archive | Ellen Scheinberg, Heritage Professionals | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, January 11, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Jewish Historical Society of San Diego | Laurel Schwartz, Jewish Historical Society of San Diego | Session not recorded. |
| Thursday, January 18, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Controlled Vocabulary | Michele Combs, Syracuse University | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, January 25, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, and Education | Lisa Macklem, Western University | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, February 15, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Privacy and Access Restrictions in Religious Archives | Mary Grace Kosta, CSJ Archives; Erin Greeno, United Church of Canada; Claire Wilton, Diocese of Toronto/Anglican Church; Laureen Harder-Gissing, Mennonite Archives of Ontario/Conrad Grebel University College | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, February 22, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Community archiving with Anglican parishes | Dez Nacario, Anglican Diocese of Huron | Session not recorded. |
| Thursday, February 29, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Discovering Enslavement Histories | Dr. Emilie Leumas, Louisiana State University; Eric Fair Archdiocese of St. Louis | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, March 21, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Ancestry Digitization Program | Jared Akenhead, Ancestry | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, April 11, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | More Product, Less Process | Holly Mengel, University of Pennsylvania | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, April 18, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Community Archiving with Madonna House | Kathy McVady, Madonna House | Session not recorded. |
| Thursday, May 16, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Muslims in Canada Archives | Aly Rattansi, Muslims in Canada Archives | Session not recorded. |
| Thursday, May 23, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Archives | Jeff Anderson, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Archives | Session not recorded. |
| Thursday, June 20, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Shambhala Buddhist Archives | Jeanne Riordan, Shambhala Buddhist Archives | Session not recorded. |
| Thursday, June 13, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Archival Accessioning for Beginners | Nicole Menchise, Long Island Library Resources Council | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, Jul 11, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Archival Arrangement for Beginners | Nicole Menchise, Long Island Library Resources Council | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, August 8, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Preserving Audiotapes and Videotapes | Andrew Thomas, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, August 22, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Archival Appraisal for Beginners | Nicole Menchise, Long Island Library Resources Council | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, September 5, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | East Broadtop Railroad: an historic railroad archive | Julie Rockwell, East Broad Top Railroad Archives & Special Collections | Session not recorded. |
| Thursday, September 26, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Preserving Film and Outsourcing Digitization | Christina Stewart, Media Commons, University of Toronto | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, October 3, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Preserving Audiotapes and Videotapes | Libby Hopfauf, Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPops) | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, October 17, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Film Preservation | Hannah Palin, Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPops) | Recording available on YouTube. |
| Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 3:00-4:00 PM ET | Introduction to Deaccessioning | Nicole Menchise, Long Island Library Resources Council | Recording available on YouTube. |