Dear colleagues,
Many thanks for all your helpful suggestions regarding training videos for archive handling. There are some excellent examples out there and I do not wish to single any out as there are different lengths and styles to suit different needs. I wanted something fairly short so may well have missed slightly longer masterpieces. In no particular order my playlist is:
Archive Plus have a Youtube channel with separate videos on handling maps and rolls:
https://www.youtube.com/user/archivesplus
Falmouth University covers a lot of ground in 7 minutes and features some of their attractive theatre collections (a nice promo touch!):
http://library.fxplus.ac.uk/collections/archives-special-collections/using-our-collections
https://vimeo.com/78280800
There were several mentions for the excellent video produced by Edinburgh University Centre for Research Collections video which comes in at just under 5 minutes:
https://vimeo.com/128129848
From across the pond Harvard University's Special Collections also has a nice intro, again coming in at just under 5 minutes:
https://youtu.be/UOv0SOQ8B68
For those of you who are very short of time New York University pack a lot into just under a minute of handling archive materials:
https://youtu.be/Ij-bYBmNOa8
And last but not least, a what not to do video which also received several mentions was Mr Bean's visit to the library:
https://youtu.be/80HXpr8S2SE
Happy watching!
Rachel
Rachel MacGregor
Digital Archivist
The Library
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
LA1 4YH
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