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Looking for specialized training for your organization’s staff or volunteers? Ohio Historical Society experts offer the following workshops tailored to your organization’s needs. For details on availability, fees, and scheduling, call the Local History Office toll free at 1-800-858-6878.
Karen Hassel, Exhibit Designer
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Mannequin Workshop for Small Museums:
Learn how to construct customized and inexpensive mannequins to protect your textile collections and display them in an elegant and meaningful manner. You will go home with mannequins that you made to fit your own textile collections.
Angela O'Neal, Digitizing Manager
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Digitizing Projects 101: Developing a Digital Library and Archives:
Learn how to plan a digitization project from the ground up. This workshop includes how to select materials for digitization, technical equipment needed, and options for making your digital library available on the Web.
Kim Feinknopf, Curator
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Identifying, Dating, and Caring for Your Photograph Collection:
Learn to identify what you have and to better date your 19th century and early 20th century photograph collections. This workshop will teach you the history of photography, sharpen your observation skills, and help the average small archives or museum deal with preservation and storage issues.
Connie Conner, Archivist
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Descriptive Record Keeping:
This workshops provides an overview of descriptive records kept by historical societies and how you can use accession records, finding aids, and catalog records to build descriptions of your collections for collection management and patron access.
Vernon Will, Conservator
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Preservation Fundamentals for Archival and Library Materials:
Basic needs for paper based historical materials. Straightforward strategies for maximizing real preservation result. Seminar highlighted with visual examples and demonstrations of simple and effective conservation procedures.
Russ Arledge, Curator
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Labeling Objects:
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Care/Handling of Objects:
Bill Mahan, Exhibit Design
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Establishing a Visual Hierarchy Using Captions and Objects:
Learn some of the basic techniques the Ohio Historical Society’s exhibit design department uses in its exhibits to display a wide range of collections. This workshop will cover ways to create a basic visual hierarchy established between captions and objects; techniques that can be used to produce your own captions, as well as suggested object groupings and the layering of secondary interpretive information.
Cliff Eckle, Curator
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Cataloging Museum Collections:
--This workshop will help people who are new to museum work with the methods and practices of cataloging museum objects. The workshop will cover the use of controlled vocabularies, physical description, and historical notation. Those attending will have the opportunity to apply their skills in a practical cataloging exercise.
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