Webinars & Workshops

The following formats, Occasional Lecture Series and Workshops, are regularly organized and offered by the MARAC Education Committee. Workshops and other educational programming are offered online via Zoom, in person, and the day before in-person conferences.  Other educational proposals are welcome and will be considered – they do not need to fit into the proposed structure. Proposals for new educational offerings are always welcome!

The Education Committee follows the MARAC Privacy and Confidentiality Policy for all communications with instructors and participants.

Upcoming Events

 

July Caucus Conversation
Hosted by the West Virginia Caucus

Title: The Road to an Abandoned Property Bill: Building LAM and Governmental Relationships
When: July 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM ET
Where: Virtual (MARAC Zoom)
Cost: Free, but registration is required. See your member emails for registration link.

Speaker(s): 
Lori Hostuttler, Director of the West Virginia and Regional History Center 
Jane LaBarbara, Head of Collections Management and Processing of the West Virginia and Regional History Center 
Kathleen Thompson, Curator of the William A. Neal Museum of the Health Sciences

Presentation Description:
Over the past five years, a coalition of West Virginia archivists, museum curators, and librarians have worked to introduce and get passed an abandoned property bill that would provide a legal framework for managing and deaccessioning materials without proper deeds of gift or for which the donors or their heirs have not been able to be contacted by usual means. In this conversation, three of the LAM professionals involved in this effort will discuss past and current efforts to introduce and promote the bill, the ways in which they have built and strengthened the West Virginia LAM coalition, and the ways in which they have built relationships with state politicians and state and university representatives in order to work towards a passed bill. 

This presentation will not be recorded. Caucus Conversations are quarterly webinars developed and sponsored by MARAC’s state caucuses. Attendance is open to all MARAC members and not limited to specific caucus members.

Questions?  Contact Grace Musgrave, West Virginia Caucus Chair, at [email protected].

TITLE: Title II of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Ensuring the Digital Accessibility of Archives

When: 4 August 2026 1:00 pm-2:00 pm EDT
Where: Virtual (MARAC Zoom)
Cost: FREE, but registration is required. See your membership emails for registration form.
Registration Limit: 75 Webinar is full. Contact [email protected] to be placed on a waitlist.

Instructor: Paul Jaeger, Professor, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, and Co-Director of the Doctor of Information Science (DInfSci) program, College of Information and Associate Director, Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA), University of Maryland

Webinar Description: This webinar will focus on practical ways to achieve digital accessibility in archives under the new Americans with Disability Act (ADA) regulations. These requirements to ensure digital accessibility in educational institutions are an opportunity to better serve your current users and to expand the number of users that your institution can reach. As it is an ongoing process, incorporating digital accessibility into all the workflows, materials, and activities of your institution will help both to meet the government regulations and to include disabled people in your institution.

About the Instructor: Paul T. Jaeger, PhD, JD, MLS, MEd, is a Professor, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, and Co-Director of the Doctor of Information Science in Leadership and Community Engagement (DInfSci) degree program in the College of Information and Associate Director of the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) at the University of Maryland. He studies the impacts of law and policy on information access and accessibility, with a focus on human rights and civil rights. He is the author of more than 225 journal articles and book chapters, as well as 22 books. He is coeditor of the journals The Library Quarterly and Including Disability, and cofounder and cochair of the Including Disability Global Summit (IDGS).

ARCs: NA

Questions? Contact Karen Clausen-Brown at [email protected] or Gillian Mahoney at [email protected].

 Webinars

45-90 minutes, lecture-based instruction with 10-30 minutes of Q&A

  • Share your expertise/experience in an Archival Community of Practice Discussion.
  • 45 to 90 min informal discussion and/or presentation with discussion/Q+A (some combination thereof)
  • Typically online via zoom in webinar or informal formats
  • These events are typically recorded unless otherwise requested. (Q+A is never recorded)
  • Any CE points must be sought by the participants individually
  • Can also be in the format of a community of practice conversation

Conference Workshops
3 – 6 hours, instruction may include participation such as hands-on activities, discussion, break-out sessions

  • In person workshops: Half-day: 3 hours (9:00 -12:00 or 1:00 - 4:00) with one (1) fifteen minute break with light refreshments.
    Full-day: 6 hours (9:00 - 4:00) with two (2) fifteen minute breaks with light refreshments and one hour lunch break. Workshops typically take place the day before the conference starts.
  • Workshops (with participation) are not recorded.

Off-Conference Workshops
60 minutes – 6 hours, instruction includes participation such as hands-on activities, discussion, break-out sessions (more than a lecture or webinar)

  • In person and/or virtual. Off-conference events have more flexibility and will be determined by the venue, instructor, and content. Virtual workshops over 3 hours will typically be split into 2 days.
  • Workshops may be recorded; question and answer sections of workshops may be recorded. 

Workshops Pricing & Compensation

The standard cost of attending a workshop is between $50 and $100, depending on the length of the workshop. Instructors for workshops are compensated based on current rates. (Please contact us for details.)

Instructor Expectations

Workshop Instructors are expected to meet the Society of American Archivists' Archival Continuing Education (ACE) Guidelines regarding instructor qualifications, delivery methods for adult learning, and areas of archival knowledge.

Wherever possible, resources will be made available to participants (slides, handouts) and to members via the digital repository (DRUM).  If you cannot make resources available, please explain why. 

Accessibility guidelines - presentation and materials must comply with accepted practice. If you cannot make resources accessible, please explain why.

Workshop Proposals 

Please visit our Previous & Upcoming Workshops page for information on accessing or attending workshops. If you are interested in giving a workshop, please submit a proposal on this Google Form. Other educational proposals are welcome and will be considered – they do not need to fit into the described structure.

 Last revised May 2025