New Skills for Stewards of Delaware's History Workshop

FAIN: PG-287454-23

State, Delaware Secretary of State - Delaware Public Archives (Dover, DE 19901-3638)
Edward McWilliams (Project Director: December 2021 to August 2024)

Three two-day workshops for 25 professionals from the Delaware Public Archives, offered by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, to improve curatorial skills and review best practices for the long-term preservation of paper-based collections.

The Delaware Public Archives’ New Skills for Stewards of Delaware’s History Workshop project supports a hands-on series of three two-day session workshops for twenty-five (25) professionals from three (3) sections of the agency to improve curatorial skills, and review of best practices of long-term preservation for paper-based collections to make them accessible for education, research, or public programming in the humanities. The sections participating in the workshops are the Government Services Section which delivers records management consultation services to state government agencies, local governments, and other governmental units in Delaware; the Public Services Section that provides service to citizens requesting information. The New Skills for Stewards of Delaware’s History Workshop project hands-on activities focus on four (4) humanities collections, that were selected to support NEH’s “A More Perfect Union” initiative and to use as case studies in the training sessions.