ARSC Workshop: Holding Our Own: Strategies for Sustainability and Advocacy in Archives

The ARSC Education & Training Committee presents this day-long, hybrid workshop centered around sustainability and advocacy within archives. While this workshop was prompted by recent detrimental impacts on notable ethnomusicology archives within the academic sector, we believe these issues are pervasive throughout the field and have designed the event to be applicable to all archival contexts.

The workshop includes:

• Keynote from Michelle Caswell (Professor of Archival Studies in UCLA’s Department of Information Studies, Co-Director of UCLA’s Community Archives Lab, and co-founder of the South Asian American Digital Archive)
• Panel of Case Studies – Participants discuss challenges they have faced and how they navigated them, how they have built advocacy for the work they do and the collections they steward, and how they are working towards sustainable future. Panelists include Alan Burdette (Society for Ethnomusicology), Edward Herbst (Bali 1928 Repatriation Project), Regan Sommer McCoy (Mixtape Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music), and John Vallier (University of Washington).
• Practical Exercises focused on developing advocacy skills and strategies, knowledge and resource sharing, and building community. 
• Tour of the UCLA Information Studies Library and Media Preservation Lab
• Morning Coffee and Pastries sponsored by the Society for Ethnomusicology
• Lunch is included with registration.

Registration is now closed.

In-Person Registration: $50

Online Registration: $15

*Additional donations are welcomed and will help fund workshop travel grants.

Donations may be made via PayPal to payments@arsc-audio.org.

In-person and virtual capacity is limited. However, parts of the workshop will be recorded and made available to ARSC members via ARSC’s Aviary site.

Please send any questions to arscCEseries@gmail.com.

This ARSC E&T Workshop is produced in partnership with the Archiving Special Interest Group of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Student Chapter of ARSC at UCLA. Funding is provided in part by a grant from the National Recording Preservation Board, administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation.

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings, in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals—everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound.