Preserving Your Legacy: Archives for Artists and Arts Groups (weeknight session)

This free workshop will teach artists and arts organizations how to manage their records - paper and digital - and how to plan for long-term records management, preservation, and access.

We'll work through best practices and common problems based on attendees' individual situations. Your records might be neatly filed in a filing cabinet, stashed in offsite storage, sitting in the founder's basement, going mouldy in the attic, or piled all over your home office.

We'll cover:

• common types of arts-related records and why they should be kept (and for how long)
• developing an organizational system
• how to document your collection
• maintenance and upkeep
• developing an archives
• access, privacy, and copyright
• digitization for active use and for posterity