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• Embedding Sustainability into your Digital Preservation Plan using the Levels of Preservation Commitment

  • When
    27 Oct 2026
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

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  Workshop: Embedding Sustainability into your Digital Preservation Plan using the Levels of Preservation Commitment

  When: October 27th 2-3:30 p.m. ET

  Where: Virtually Via Zoom

  
  

  

  Jack O'Grady, Collections and Digital Access Specialist at the Hamilton Public Library Local History and Archives department
  

  Biography: 

  Jack O'Grady is an emerging digital preservation professional based in Hamilton, Ontario. Before a career shift, he worked as a consultant assisting clients with information architecture, metadata management, and user access. It was in this position that he developed a passion for sustainability in information work, which he built on at the University of Toronto iSchool with a collaborative concentration in Environmental Studies. Since then, he's been at Hamilton Public Library launching a digital preservation system, serving on the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Carbon Footprint Calculation Support Group, and consulting with local environmental non-profits on digital asset management and migration.
  

  Description:

  Digital preservation has always been concerned with the sustainability of fiscal and archival resources, hedging against future disruptions while balancing against the present. Increasingly, digital preservation professionals are being called on to consider environmental sustainability more closely, as well, as the resource cost of digital storage and computation becomes clearer. Adding this new concern to an already complex equation can seem overwhelming, but this workshop walks participants through a methodology that leans on archivists' existing skill in appraisal to embed sustainable decision-making into your digital preservation plan. Introduced by Nancy McGovern and Kari R. Smith at MIT Libraries, the Levels of Preservation Commitment are a simple and easily customizable set of rankings which, when assigned to accessions, determine to what level the archive will commit a proportion of their overall resources for preservation. The central idea of this methodology is for archives to make intentional decisions on which collections to accept additional risk for in return for allocating fewer unsustainable resources, and which require a compromise in the other direction. In this workshop, the methodology is built on to include concerns for environmental sustainability more directly, and methods for customizing it to fit your specific archive's situation are offered along with a detailed process map for carrying out a Levels of Preservation Commitment appraisal.
  

  
  

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• Access & Privacy Special Interest Section

  • When
    5 Nov 2026
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  The ACA Access & Privacy Special Interest Section (SIS) will be holding a meeting for anyone interested on Thursday November 5th at 1pm ET.

  Please feel free to join the meeting if you’re interested in information access and privacy as  a social value, citizen right and as it pertains to your institutional holdings.

  The SIS seeks to establish a foundation for archivists to openly connect and share perspectives on access to information, access and privacy practices, and archival access more broadly.

  If you’re interested in matters relating to the acquisition and management of personal information, or access more broadly as an archival duty, please feel free to join the group.

  Topics of interest include access services and barriers to accessing archives, user experience and access to archives, access rights, understanding privacy, how access & privacy laws apply to public & private sector archives, and the various challenges that coincide with disclosure. Identifying steps and strategies for implementing privacy compliant business practices can also be considered.

  The group will be open to tabling concerns of archivists related to privacy ethics & principles and access to information issues for general awareness and knowledge sharing.

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• Basics of Email Preservation Workshop

  • When
    19 Nov 2026
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Via Zoom

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  Basics of Email Preservation Workshop

  

  When: Thursday November 19 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET

  Where: Virtually via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided to registrants the day before the workshop).

  Biography:

  Jonathan Ennis received his undergraduate degree from Moravian University in 2008 and his master's in Library and Information Science from Drexel University in 2011. He has been working at the Moravian Archive, Bethlehem, since 2018. He is responsible for the Archives' digitization projects, including scanning and maintenance of digitized material, processing and storage of born digital material, and digitization requests from researchers.

  Description: 

  This workshop offers an overview of the fundamentals of email preservation, exploring why preserving email is both essential and complex. Participants will be introduced to common email preservation formats, methods for downloading email from several major providers, approaches to processing and providing access using ePADD, and best practices for determining which emails should be preserved.

  The session builds on a presentation originally delivered for the Society of American Archivists’ Archivists of Religious Collections Section and incorporates research developed in preparation for collecting and preserving email accounts from Moravian congregations and agencies. The updated workshop will include refreshed content reflecting recent developments in the field, as well as practical insights drawn from this evolving case study.

  
  

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