Presented by Appalachian State University at the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum
Are your precious family photos and/or papers stored in a shoe box under the bed? Are they in a trunk in the attic? Or, are they on your old 1997 Nikon Coolpix digital camera? Would you like to share them with family and preserve them for future generations but don’t know how?
Join App State’s Kim Sims and Pam Mitchem for an engaging and interactive workshop to learn how to properly preserve important historical documents.
The workshop will include:
• how to house and store print photographs, slides, and documents.
• where to get them digitized so you can send them to relatives and friends.
• how to store and secure digital images.
• what you can legally put on your Facebook page.
About the Speakers:
Sims is the coordinator of the Special Collections Research Center and the university archivist for University Libraries at Appalachian State University. She earned a master’s degree in public history with a focus on archives from N.C. State University. She began her career working as an archivist for the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University. Prior to coming to App State, she worked as the university archivist at the College of William & Mary.
Mitchem is a professor and coordinator of the Digital Scholarship and Initiatives team in Belk Library and Information Commons. Mitchem has been a professional archivist for 23 years, working in digitization and digital curation since 2000. She held positions including preservation and digital projects archivist, interim university archivist, and special assistant to the dean of libraries for digital initiatives. She is a certified archivist with the Academy of Certified Archivists and is a Society of American Archivists certified digital archives specialist. In 2016, she received the Thornton W. Mitchell Service award from the Society of North Carolina Archivists for her service to the archival profession. In 2021, she and her team received the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Organization Excellence Award for providing significant support, guidance, advocacy, and leadership for the digital preservation community.
This event is Free to the public and presented by the Appalachian State University Office of University Advancement Partnerships. The talk will be given at BRAHM.