Resources
Recent Events
- How to get published, March 20
- STEP: Library Challenges & Opportunities 2008 Teleconference: Library Spaces: Future Needs, March 7
- Advanced PowerPoint class with Robin Fay, March 5
- STEP: Soaring to Excellence Teleconference: People Watching With a Purpose: Meeting Needs Before They Need It, Feb. 8
Mentor program
PDRC is beginning a mentoring program to pair new faculty members with existing faculty members at the Libraries. A summary of the program is available here. Other resources will be posted as they are made available.
Training and Continuing Education
- The Archivist's Day Book, provided by the Society of Southwest Archivists: Information about meetings, workshops, and seminars and other continuing education and professional development events for archivists.
- Georgia Center for Continuing Education: Offers classes in computer software and personal development and growth.
- OCLC Support: Offers online training and tutorials as well as more traditional workshops; focus is on Cataloging, ILL, & bibliographic instruction.
- OIIT Training: Training opportunities relating to databases and GALILEO.
- The Society of Georgia Archivists: This is the state of Georgia's professional organization for archivists. Contains employment advertisements, information on professional development and continuing education, updates on important issues related to the profession, and information about the organization and its activities.
- The Society of American Archivists: This is the chief professional organization for archivists. Contains employment advertisements, information on professional development and continuing education, updates on important issues related to the profession, and information about the organization and its activities.
- Solinet Training: Offers classes on a range of library related topics from administration to cataloging to general professional development.
- University of Georgia Libraries' Training Program: Includes links to training calendars, mission statement, and training objectives.
- University of Georgia Training and Development Resources: Online catalog of training opportunities includes classes and videos on computer, management and other skills.
- UGA Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)
- UGA Libraries' Employee Tuition Remission/Reimbursement Program Procedures
Professional Organizations
General Library Organizations
- American College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
ACRL Professional Tools - American Library Association (ALA)
ALA Professional Tools - Georgia Library Association (GLA)
Archives and Manuscripts/Records Management/Special Formats
- Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA)
- American Association for State and Local History (AASLAH)
- American Association of Museums (AAM)
- Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
- Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)
- ARMA International: The Association of Information Management Professionals
- Council of State Historical Records Coordinators (COSHRC)
- National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA)
- National Council on Public History (NCPH)
- Oral History Association (OHA)
- Society of American Archivists (SAA)
- Society of Georgia Archivists (SGA)
- Visual Resources Association (VRA)