Slipcase Class – bring this preservation skill into your book collections!

For full info, see http://printingmuseum.org/classes.php

In this class, students will make a slip case out of sturdy book board, with a lined interior, and with an applied cover of book cloth. Measuring for proper overlaps, application of adhesive, and application of bookcloth will be addressed. Students will learn the sequence of cuts and paste-downs necessary to create neat and well-tailored corners. Once these techniques are learned, they can be applied to the construction of complex clamshell boxes. Also, directions for making a simple but effective slipcase out of card stock will be demonstrated.

Date: Friday, March 25: 10am-4pm
Instructor: Lena LeMoal
Level: all levels
Tuition: $90 plus $20 materials fee

The Houston Public Library is sponsoring a free Oral History Workshop on Saturday, October 30th at the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research. If you are available, please consider attending this all day event.

UPDATE: For those of us who are certified archivists, the workshop has been preapproved by ACA for 2 recertification credits.

“More Product, Less Process” (MPLP) has been a hot topic ever since Greene and Meissner published that famous article back in 2005. Have you been wondering how you can apply the principles of minimal processing to your collections?

AHA is sponsoring a 3-hour workshop on May 13, 2010. Mike Strom, Senior Archivist at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, will take us through the ins and outs of MPLP and help us think about how to apply it in our own archives. Munters, in Pasadena, is graciously providing the classroom space.

Cost is $20. Space is limited so don’t delay! The flyer has all the details about how to register.

Principles of Controlled Vocabulary & Thesaurus Design
April 5-6, Rice University, Fondren Library, Kyle Morrow Room

Register on-line at: http://www.amigos.org/learning/catalog/shopping/product_details.php?id=324

The Principles of Controlled Vocabulary and Thesaurus Design prepares digital project staff to use existing controlled vocabularies or to develop their own lists of specialized terms for specific applications in digital projects.

Learning objectives include:

* Compare and contrast different types of controlled vocabularies, including lists, synonym rings, hierarchies and thesauri.
* Create controlled vocabulary (CV) terms for supplied digital objects
* Apply the Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies for refining CV terms
* Develop hierarchies of CV terms for thesauri
* Build associative relationships among the CV terms
* Discuss methods of displaying controlled vocabularies to metadata creators and users
* Examine methods of justifying, building and integrating CVs

Intended Audience
This course is designed for archivists, librarians or museum staff faced with the challenges of applying existing controlled vocabularies or building new vocabularies to provide access to their digital collections

Course Hours
The workshop meets on two consecutive days for 5.5 hours each day.
Instructor: Bill Walker – [ E-Mail ] [ Bio ]
Contact Hrs: 11.00
Amigos Member Fee: $ 250.00

Basic Book and Paper Repair
Museum of Printing History
www.printingmuseum.org

Location: 1324 W Clay St
Houston, TX 77019-4036
(713) 522-4652

Lena LeMoal, who talked at AHA last summer about book conservation, will be teaching a course on basic book and paper repair.

I have a book in bad shape, what do I do? Learn the answer to this common question in this two-day workshop. Students will be guided through the different steps in evaluating damage to a book, tips on handling them, decisions to make as far as the type of repair, the budget, the options and the right people to call. Participants will learn minor repair techniques that they can do at home, as well as the proper materials used to preserve treasured volumes. Students are welcome to bring a book with a problem to be approached and discussed during class.

Date: Saturday & Sunday, December 5 & 6: 2pm-5pm
Instructor: Lena LeMoal
Level: all levels
Tuition: $90

Privacy and Health Information Webinar

Posted by pmontgom on March 24, 2009

AHA and SAA present: Privacy and Health Information Webinar.

When: April 16, 2009 with registration from 5:30 to 6 p.m. and the webinar from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Where: McGovern Historical Collections, HAM/TMC, 1133 John Freeman Blvd., Houston, located in the Texas Medical Center.

Who: This event is free to all members of AHA! Non-members pay $15.
Registration: Either show up at the door or register early by contacting Javier Garza at jjgarza@mdanderson.org or 713-792-2285 or contacting Philip Montgomery at pmontgom@rice.edu or call 713-348-2542.

Parking: http://resource.library.tmc.edu/using/maps.cfm
Sponsored by AHA and Hosted by McGovern Historical Collections, HAM/TMC.

Privacy and Health Information is a recording of a 90-minute web seminar presentation in June 2008, sponsored by the Society of American Archivists.

Health information of both living deceased individuals is collected in a wide variety of archival repositories from medical archives to local historical societies. What are the legal rights and ethical responsibilities that archivists and others should consider for access and use of this information? How do archivists adjudicate requests for access in compliance with legal and ethical rights to privacy?

This seminar explores:
• The Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• The Federal Common Rule for Protection of Human Subjects
• Ethical policies for protecting identifiable health and human subject information.

It also explores policies, procedures, and practices for repositories to employ while administering access and use of materials containing identifiable health and human subject information, including:

• The concept of role-based access;
• The structure and operation of institutional review boards;
• Repository policies and procedures;
• Glossary of terms;
• Examples of forms;
• Guidelines for review of documents; and
• Risk analysis and decision-making.

Sponsored by AHA! Archivists of the Houston Area and hosted by McGovern Historical Collections, HAM/TMC.

AHA and SAA present: Privacy and Health Information Webinar.

When: April 16, 2009 with registration from 5:30 to 6 p.m. and the webinar from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Where: McGovern Historical Collections, HAM/TMC, 1133 John Freeman Blvd., Houston, located in the Texas Medical Center.
Who: This event is free to all members of AHA! Non-members pay $15.
Registration: Either show up at the door or register early by contacting Javier Garza at jjgarza@mdanderson.org or 713-792-2285 or contacting Philip Montgomery at pmontgom@rice.edu or call 713-348-2542.

Sponsored by AHA and Hosted by McGovern Historical Collections, HAM/TMC.

Privacy and Health Information is a recording of a 90-minute web seminar presentation in June 2008, sponsored by the Society of American Archivists.

Health information of both living deceased individuals is collected in a wide variety of archival repositories from medical archives to local historical societies. What are the legal rights and ethical responsibilities that archivists and others should consider for access and use of this information? How do archivists adjudicate requests for access in compliance with legal and ethical rights to privacy?

This seminar explores:
• The Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• The Federal Common Rule for Protection of Human Subjects
• Ethical policies for protecting identifiable health and human subject information.

It also explores policies, procedures, and practices for repositories to employ while administering access and use of materials containing identifiable health and human subject information, including:

• The concept of role-based access;
• The structure and operation of institutional review boards;
• Repository policies and procedures;
• Glossary of terms;
• Examples of forms;
• Guidelines for review of documents; and
• Risk analysis and decision-making.

Sponsored by AHA! Archivists of the Houston Area and hosted by McGovern Historical Collections, HAM/TMC.