Greetings Colleagues, I trust you’re well. Today I’m celebrating Lucy Craft Laney, an early African-American educator who in 1883 founded the first school for black children in Augusta, Georgia. Free Live Webinar: Increasing Access to Photographic and Audio Collections – Two case studies – Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 2:00 ET, 1:00 CT Description: The HBCU Preservation Project has enabled participants to address the preservation needs of significant photographic and magnetic media collection materials and improve access to their content. During this webinar, staff from Johnson C. Smith University will describe how they reformatted and raised awareness of the James Gibson Peeler collection of photographic negatives. Staff from the Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library will describe how they reformatted audio from the Interdenominational Theological Center and made it available on the web. Learning Outcomes: After this training, webinar participants will have: · Increased understanding of the preservation needs of photographic and audio materials; · Greater knowledge of strategies to improve access to photographic and audio materials; · Ideas of ways to create their own institutional projects. Suggested Attendees: Librarians, archivists, and staff who are interested in increasing the impact of Special Collections materials. Instructors: Andrea R. Jackson currently serves as Head of the Archives Research Center at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library (GA) where she is responsible for leading all department operations, including reference implementation of the notable Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. and Tupac Amaru Shakur Collections. She is currently the project director of two grant projects funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for Humanities, respectively. She is an alumna of Spelman College, with a BA in US History, New York University with a MA in History and certification in Archival Management, and was a 2011 participant of the Archives Leadership Institute. Jackson is a member of the Society of Georgia Archivists, Society of American Archivists, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and is the Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the ARCHE (Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education) Archives Council. Chelly Tavss is the Photographic Archivist Librarian and the library Federal Work Study supervisor at Johnson C. Smith University (NC). Chelly holds an MLIS with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons College in Boston, and a BA in English Literature and Photography from the University of North Florida, Jacksonville. She has completed a year of graduate studies in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at Ryerson University in Toronto Ontario, Canada. She was hired at Johnson C Smith University as the Processing Photo Archivist on the Peeler Photograph Collection in 2012, and recently designed, built and curated the exhibit “Peeler’s Portrait Studio: Preserving Charlotte’s African American Community 1954-2003.” Chelly also handles the archival digitization for the library, and works with professors to integrate the use of archives and archival materials into the classroom. Christine Wiseman is Head of the Digital Services Department at the at Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library. In this capacity she works collaboratively with library staff, the Archives Research Center, and faculties to deliver digital services in support of teaching, learning, and research. She is responsible for implementing best practices and emerging technologies that support the creation, management, discovery, access and preservation of digital collections. She provides technical support for archival management systems and manages institutional digital repositories. She participates in strategic planning and is involved in writing and managing grant projects for digitization and preservation. Christine holds a MLIS and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Preservation Administration from The University of Texas at Austin. Registration: Follow this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TFMZ3LQ and register no later than Wednesday, June 8th. Log-in will get forwarded by Monday, June 13th. Stay tuned! Sandra SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-592-4820 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/ 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 150 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.