Workshop on how to construct proper museum and archives mounts for three dimensional objects for proper storage and display

Hands-on one-day workshop on the care and hadling of costumes and textiles, storage and exhibit.

Annual conference for the national and international Innovative Interface online catalog software users

Annual meeting of the Southern California users of the Innovative Interfaces online catalog software

Annual meeting of librarians and staff from colleges, universities and other libraries and archives that use the Innovative Interfaces products. Sessions were held on updates and enhancements to the system; new technology, how to incorporate the new ISBN-13 code and the impact of such on technical services, new research software components, etc.

Protecting Library Collections: Disaster Response in Action. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2006, sponsored by the Los Angeles Preservation Network. This program was designed for library administrators and those having responsibility for emergency preparedness, response, and decision-making from public, academic, school and special libraries, historical societies and archives. The program included presentations on establishing priorites for salvage, emergency response team roles and responsibilities, levels of disaster assessment, when to activate the response team and hands-on sessions in salvage activities. Speakers included Richenda Brim, Head of Collection Maintenance, Getty Research Institute; Charlotte Brown, Archivist, UCLA; Gretchen Karl, Getty Research Institute; Susan E. Parker, Deputy University LIbrarian, UCLA; and Kristen L. St. John, Conservator, UCLA.

26th Annual ASDAL (Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians) Conference -- "Twenty-five Years: Tradition and Change", Sunday, June 18 - Sabbath, June 24, 2006, Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, TN, USA. This was the silver anniversary conference. Monday, June 19 was devoted to the Adventist Resources Section with the theme of Communication. Jud Lake, Southern Adventist University, presented a talk on independent ministries and their web sites. Bill Summers, Director and Archivist, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, Nashville TN spoke on communications for denominational archives. Tuesday, June 20, began the main conference with the keynote address Atrophy delivered by Keith Clouten, Library Director (retired) Andrews University.

A webinar to introduce new CONTENTdm and potential users to the possibilities of using CONTENTdm digital asset management software to manage the University''s digital assets.

Keynote speaker was David Carmicheal, Georgia State Archivist and President of the State Council of Archivists.

Preservation of Audiovisual Materials: A workshop sponsored by Amigos Library Services, held at the annual conference of the Society of California Archivists, April 27, 2006, San Francisco, California. The workshop presenter was Elizabeth Klein, Administrative Coordinator, Imaging & Preservation Services, Amigos Library Services. Workshop attendees learned the basic concepts involved in the creation, preservation, housing and reformating of a wide variety of audiovisual materials, from wax cylinders to optical media.

A workshop presented by The Society of California Archivists in which the participants were introduced to the principles and practices used in cataloging photographs, learning the tools, stragies, standards and online resources available for creating useful descriptive bibliographic records for photographic materials.

The WebWise conference is an Institute of Museum and Library Services initiative bringing together representatives of the museum, library, archives, education and other fields interested in the future of high-quality online content for inquiry and learning.