Society of American Archivists Pre-Conference Workshop: Managing Architectural, Design, and Construction Records
Marriott Wardman Park
Washington, DC
Sunday 8 August /Monday 9 August 2010
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Architectural design and construction records are valuable sources for understanding and preserving the built environment. Because they document a complicated work process, these records are typically oversized and produced in great volume, and they often include fragile materials and fugitive media. Implementing the basic archival functions of appraisal, arrangement, description, preservation, and reference can present a formidable task.
In this two-day workshop, you’ll learn how to identify, manage, preserve, and provide access to design and construction records. The first day addresses the process of design, legal issues, appraisal, types of records, arrangement, and description. The second day focuses on media and support identification, preservation, reformatting, reference, and patron use. Taking into consideration the access needs of different types of repositories, as well as the reality of limited space and budgets, you’ll learn ideal practices as well as practical solutions.
Attendance is limited to 35.
Instructors: Waverly B. Lowell, Curator, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley; and Tawny Ryan Nelb, President, Nelb Archival Consulting, Inc.
Who should attend?
Archivists, town clerks, curators, librarians, and others responsible for architectural and other design and construction records in archives, municipal and government agencies, museums, libraries, and historical societies.
More information: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/events/186-PCs.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=186
Keli E. Rylance,
Head, Southeastern Architectural Archive & Co-Chair, Society of American Archivists Architectural Records Roundtable