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These lists are not intended to be comprehensive. Resources have been recommended by individual CAA members, and their inclusion here does not represent an endorsement by the CAA Steering Committee. If you have additional recommendations or would like to be included, contact CAA.

Antiracism

Resources for Dismantling Racism in Archives - compiled by CAA Steering and subcommittee members (2020, edited 2021)

CAA Statement on Diversity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunity/Non-Discrimination Policy (July 2018)

CAA Statement in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter (July 2020)

Sample Interview Questions (Compiled by CAA Steering Committee, 2020-2021)

SAA Career Learning Center

CV Writing Tips from University of Wisconsin-Madison

ASERL webinar: Not Just a Number: Negotiating Salary in Academic Archives and Special Collections (2020)

SAA19 Archivist Salary Transparency Open Spreadsheet

Professional Development

Archives Association of British Columbia (Archivists Toolkit)

NEDCC Preservation 101

Understanding Records & Archives (University of Michigan)

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Guidelines: Competencies for Special Collections Professionals

Midwest Archives Conference Directory of Educational Programs

Society of American Archivists Continuing Professional Education Catalog

Society of American Archivists Directory of Archival Education

ISHRAB Archival Professional Development Scholarships

Grants

Illinois State Library

Illinois Humanities Council

National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Humanities

IMLS

Conservation/
Preservation

NPS Conserve O Grams

Minnesota Historical Society Collections Care

Conservation OnLine (CoOL)

AIC's Caring for your Treasures

NEDCC (Northeast Document Conservation Center) Preservation Leaflets

International Preservation Studies Center

Legal/Copyright

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries January 2012

Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums by Peter B. Hirtle, Emily Hudson, & Andrew T. Kenyon, 2009

Creative Commons Licenses

Public Domain Day (Duke University)

American Library Association Copyright Advisory Network

Bound By Law? Tales from the Public Domain (Duke University)

Oral History

Doing Oral History-Step by Step

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Story Corps

Oral History Online

Illinois Digital Archives website

National Park Service

Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)

Services and Consultants

These lists are not intended to be comprehensive. Resources have been recommended by individual CAA members and their inclusion here does not represent an endorsement by the CAA Steering Committee. If you have additional recommendations or would like to be included, contact CAA.