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• McMaster Archives Alive Lecture: “Arborum Cura: John Evelyn’s Sylva from Root to Branch”

  • When
    20 Mar 2026
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    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

  You are cordially invited to McMaster’s next online Archives Alive lecture (20 March 2026 at 12 p.m. EST): “Arborum Cura: John Evelyn’s Sylva from Root to Branch.” 

  In 1664, the newly established Royal Society of London released John Evelyn’s Sylva as its first official publication; McMaster acquired a first edition of the work in 2019. This charming book-length consideration of “forest-trees” — full of lively and personable advice about the nature, qualities, and proper care of trees and forests — proved to be profoundly influential and is still widely discussed. Why did this learned body choose Sylva to begin its work, and what does a 350-year-old treatise on trees and forestry have to tell us today? Join Archives and Rare Books Librarian Myron Groover for an exploration of Sylva, the environmental and geopolitical contexts in which it was rooted, and the branching paths by which Evelyn’s thinking about conservation bore fruit — in his time and our own.  

  Register using this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/7017721321147/WN_uP5N7WNOTGCag_1J7dziGA 

  
  

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• Online Workshop: Preserving Moving Image Film and Outsourcing Digitization

  • When
    21 May 2026
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    2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Via Zoom

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  Preserving Moving Image Film and Outsourcing Digitization

  
  

  Thursday May 21 at 2:30 - 4:00 EST

  Instructor: Christina Stewart

  This workshop is designed for all archivists with the goal of demystifying the world of moving image film and its digitization. Nearly all archives have film materials, but not the traditional equipment to make the content accessible. This workshop aims to make that content come to life again by focusing on where and how to start a digitization project. The topics covered will be film identification and preservation, understanding digitization services, budgets, what questions to ask vendors, and finally how to prep your film materials for digitization. By the end of the workshop, archivists will have a clearer understanding of their materials, the services they will need, but also the confidence to talk to vendors. Participants are asked to bring questions and collection scenarios for discussion.

  Zoom link will be provided to registrants the day before the workshop. 

  
  

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