The midwest region of the IMLS-funded Regional Training of Trainers project focuses its work on the audiovisual needs of Wisconsin-based museums, archives, libraries and cultural centers. For this purpose, the anchor site for the Midwest workshops is Recollection Wisconsin, a consortium administered by WiLS. Recollection Wisconsin works to bring together digital cultural heritage resources from Wisconsin cultural institutions on their website, which feeds into the Digital Public Library of America...

The Southeastern United States has a rich history vital to the development of American culture and heritage. It is known for its diverse craft traditions, foodway traditions, its development of musical genres including folk, blues, country; its enormous role in the history of civil rights and as a center for Native American heritage. The region contains hundreds of museums and historical societies known to contain audiovisual collections, and countless other cultural documents are likely to live...

The Community Archiving Workshop Training of Trainers (TOT) – California is the west region of the Regional Training of Trainers Projectfunded by the Institute for Library and Museum Services. This regional TOT will focus its work on the audiovisual needs of arts and cultural heritage organizations and accidental archives of California. The anchor site California Revealed is a California State Library initiative that provides free digitization, digital preservation and online access services for a...

The southwest region of the IMLS-funded Regional Training of Trainers project addresses audiovisual needs of the museums, archives, libraries and cultural centers in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the project will develop and deliver remote training to the region culminating in a hands-on workshop in El Paso, TX by November 2021. The objectives for the regional training include the conversion of the Training of Trainers curriculum to a remote training...

To help improve stewardship of audiovisual collections the Community Archiving Workshop, in partnership with the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, is providing five (5) tribal cultural institutions in the Southwest an opportunity to participate in a remote learning cohort. Organizations will come together for online training and be individually matched with a CAW mentor to: (1) Identify preservation needs for their AV collection, (2) Set attainable goals to inspect and inventory...

Próximamente: información en español sobre el CAW en la Cuidad de México, enlaces importantes y mas. Laboratorio Experimental de Cine (LEC) is CAW’s first non-US regional anchor site, providing support and information for partners in their region wishing to perform audiovisual preservation or hold a CAW. In April of 2020, LEC held a CAW in Mexico City, digitizing nearly 200 of the 1500 u-matic and beta sp tapes in the Colección Héctor Pardo. You can see samples of work digitized during the CAW at ...