American Association for State and Local History Online Course
Basics of Archives
June 4 - July 9, 2018
The newly revised Basics of Archives online course is designed to give organizations and individuals who are responsible for the care of historical records an introduction to the core aspects of managing and protecting historical records collections, using appropriate principles and best practices.

American Association for State and Local History Webinar
Speaking Truth to Power: Why Transparency and Accountability Matter
June 12, 2018, 3-4:30 p.m. (ET)
Many museums embrace the ideals of openness, communication, and trustworthiness in their work. In fact, the words transparency and accountability and others like them, can be found in vision, mission, and values statements of museums large and small. Too frequently, however, transparency and accountability get sidelined by good intentions. What do they really mean in day-to-day practice? How do they become part of an institution’s DNA so that, even in difficult times, they aren’t ignored?

Northeast Document Conservation Center Webinar
Salvaging Damaged Book, Paper and AV Collections 
June 12, 2018, 2:00 p.m. (ET)
Disasters in or around our institutions can lead to loss in cultural heritage collections. While preventing and planning for disasters are important pieces of an overall preservation strategy, there may come a time when you need to recover your collections following an incident. This webinar covers strategies for prioritizing and triaging your collections for recovery, as well as provides hands-on techniques for salvaging books, works on paper, and audiovisual materials.

Connecting to Collections FREE Webinar
Live and Learn: Collections Emergency Lessons and Training 
June 13, 2018, 2:00-3:30 EDT 
Have you had an emergency that involved your collection? Were your colleagues trained and ready to respond? After it was over, did you look at your response? If so, how did you record what you learned? What changes did you make to improve your emergency response in the future? This webinar will help you to make sure your Emergency Plan is a living document by focusing on learning opportunities both before and after emergencies: training and after-action reviews. We will provide ideas for training all staff who work with heritage collections and we’ll discuss how to debrief after actual emergencies to learn from them in the most effective way. Staying in “learning mode” most of the time enables your emergency team to respond competently and creatively when an emergency occurs.

American Association for State and Local History Webinar
Uncovering Hidden History: How Small Museums Benefit From Having An Archive
June 20, 2018, 3-4 p.m. (ET)
Documents, letters, diaries, photographs and other archival collections held by small museums and local organizations contain rich history that often goes unexplored because staff and volunteers don’t have time to fully process the materials.   Join us for this webinar as we look at how your organization can begin to take steps to implement archival methods of organizing paper collections differently than how you process artifact donations.

American Association for State and Local History On-Line Course 
Collections Management
July 9 – September 3, 2018
This eight week online class is about managing cultural collections and will cover collections policies, how to know what you have, what you need to know about your collections, how to know where everything in your collection is located, and making sure that someone gets some good out of your collection. Collections management is all of the activities related to the administration of collections including planning, development, care, conservation, documentation, and making those collections available to the public. You’ll learn why museums have so many pieces of paper for each object and what all those numbers on the paper and objects are about. You will figure out what to keep and possibly what to let go of and last but not least, who should do what with all those things.

American Association for State and Local History On-Line Course 
Caring for Museum Collections
July 16 – September 10, 2018
This eight week course will deal with the physical care and preservation of your museum collections. This practical course will cover how collections age and deteriorate, handling collections, storage requirements, environmental considerations, housekeeping, and risk management.

Texas Historical Commission Museum Services FREE Webinar
Website Redos
July 25, 2018, 10-11 a.m. CST
Is your website outdated? Wondering how to give it a facelift? Texas Historical Commission’s webmaster Jared Porter will share some tips and answer your questions about updating your website.