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• Workshop: Oral History Essentials

  • When
    19 Apr 2019
  •  
    9:45 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Cohen Education Center, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, Portland Campus
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  Oral History Essentials

  
  

  Learn how to engage in an oral history interview, starting with the equipment and resources you'll need and good recording practices. We’ll cover what kind of questions to ask during an interview and how to ask them. We’ll listen to examples, talk about what makes a good interview, and how to best transform that for an audience. If there is time, we’ll do some practice interviewing.

  This 1/2-day program, which will include a short break for lunch in the middle, will cover:

  • How to conduct an oral history interview
  • Equipment & resources 
  • Good recording practices
  • Best practices: legal releases, archiving, how to make your project accessible, etc.

  Please bring:

  • Notebook & pen
  • A bagged lunch (there will NOT be sufficient time to go get lunch in town)
  • Recording kit (optional for show-and-tell)

  
  

  
  

  Your Presenter

  Meghan Vigeant is an oral historian and writer. She began her oral history work in 2009 as an Island Institute Fellow on Swan’s Island. There she produced a series of oral histories and documentaries, and authored the book Guts, Feathers, and All: Stories of Hard Work and Good Times on Swan’s Island, Maine. In 2013 Vigeant started Stories To Tell to help families and organizations record their stories as audio productions. She has worked in theater, public radio, and museums, and is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She has taught creative writing, storytelling, oral history, and documentary to students ages eight to eighty. Vigeant is currently earning her MFA in creative nonfiction at USM’s Stonecoast program. 

  
  

  
  

  The Venue

  
  

  This event will be held at the Cohen Education Center at the Osher Map Library (OML) on the campus of the University of Southern Maine, Portland campus. OML occupies the three-story building at the corner of Forest Avenue and Bedford Street (314 Forest Avenue; Portland, ME 04101); it is attached, on the first floor, to the seven-story Albert Brenner Glickman Family Library. The public entrance to the Cohen Education Center — are all off the arcade that runs across the front of both library buildings.  See the USM Portland campus map.

  Free public parking is available in the USM parking garage, clearly marked (in blue) on the USM Portland campus map. The entrance to the parking garage is on Surrenden St, off Bedford St.

  Accessibility: This facility is accessible to wheelchair users.

  Bathrooms: Gender-neutral bathrooms are available on-site, as well as those labeled for men and women.

  
  

  
  

  Registration

  Online registration will be open through Wednesday, April 17. To register after this date, call Dugan Murphy at 207-400-6965. The fee for members is $30.  Non-members pay $45.

  To make sure attendees enjoy a quality experience, this workshop is limited to 20 participants. Register early to reserve your space!

  Members of MAM enjoy discounted registration (MAM members must log in first).  If you're not a MAM member, join today!

  
  

  
  

  Top photo: Meghan Vigeant demonstrates how to record an interview with Eloise Schultz acting as a test subject during the MAM Oral History Essentials class at the Abbe Museum in 2017. Photo by Tim Garrity.

  Bottom photo: Meghan Vigeant, photo by Ann Hedley Rousseau.

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• Workshop: Crafting History for Schools

  • When
    25 Apr 2019
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission, Wiscasset
  • Spaces left
    15

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  Crafting History for Schools:

  Three Perspectives

  
  

  A range of expertise and decades of combined experience in the field of history education will be presented as a trio of educators talk about their views on educational programming. Workshop participants will learn how current programs were developed and are delivered, see examples of what has worked (and what has not), and hear about sources of funding. Examples of the tools, materials, and resources used by each educator, for outreach and onsite school programs, will be shared with the group.

  
  

  Schedule

  10:00AM – 10:15AM  Introduction
  10:15AM – 11:15AM  20-minute presentations by each presenter
  11:15AM – 11:30AM  Break 
  11:30AM – 12:30PM  Discussion and Q & A 

  
  

  Your Presenters

  

  Kathy Goldner, Outreach Manager, Boothbay Region Historical Society
  Kathy is currently presenting Boothbay history to the third grades at Boothbay Region Elementary School.  She devised and ran a history and literature enrichment program in Waldo County for 15 years, was External Relations Director for Penobscot Marine Museum, and Education Director for Boothbay Railway Village. 

  
  

  Louise Miller, Education Director, Lincoln County Historical Association (LCHA)
  Louise works with three historic sites under the care of LCHA.  Her approach to sharing this varied history is interdisciplinary. Louise’s background includes her work at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts and at the Fort at No. 4 Living History Museum in New Hampshire; as well as publishing an historic focused periodical for 15 yrs. 

  Julia Einstein, Maine Education Program Coordinator, Historic New England 
  In a career from classroom to museum educator, Julia views learning as a way to experiment, enjoy and challenge one's perspective.  At Historic New England she creates school programs for the six historic house museums throughout Maine. At the Historical Society of Wells and Ogunquit, she develops marketing strategies, as well as curating the educational plan for the organization’s Meetinghouse Museum collections.

  
  

  The Venue

  

  This event will be held at office of the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission, 297 Bath Rd, Wiscasset.

  Free parking is available on site.

  Accessibility: This facility is accessible to wheelchair users.

  Bathrooms are single-user facilities with no gender labels.

  
  

  Registration

  Online registration will be open through Tuesday, April 23. To register after this date, call Kathy Goldner at 207-633-0820. The fee for members is $15.  Non-members pay $25.

  Due to space limitations, this workshop is limited to 30 participants. Register early to reserve your space!

  Members of MAM enjoy discounted registration (MAM members must log in first).  If you're not a MAM member, join today!

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• Workshop: Metadata Basics

  • When
    11 Jul 2019
  •  
    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Colby College (Robinson Memorial Room in Special Collections at Miller Library)
  • Spaces left
    25

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  Metadata Basics

  
  

  Metadata is defined as a set of data that describes and gives information about other data. This Metadata Basics workshop will give attendees a solid understanding of the importance of metadata, how it is generated and how it is used. Specific examples will illustrate key points and a list of resources will be provided. 

  The workshop will be taught in two sessions in order to accommodate a broad audience. Participants are welcome to attend one or both sessions.

  Colby Special Collections will provide light morning refreshments. Lunch will be on your own.

  
  

  Schedule

  10:00AM – 12:00PM: Morning session - introduction to metadata concepts and best practices, why controlled vocabulary is important

  12:00PM - 1:30PM: Lunch on your own or in the dining hall on campus (your choice from the menu available that day)
  

  1:30PM - 3:30PM: Afternoon session - standards and tools relevant to metadata work, case studies of how peer repositories approach metadata creation, importance of data back up

  3:30PM - 4:00PM: Optional page turning of John James Audubon's The Birds of America in Special Collections

  This event will be followed immediately by a social mixer downtown, 4:30-5:30PM.  You don't need to attend this workshop to attend the mixer.

  
  

  Your Presenter

  
  

  This workshop is presented by Katie Donahue, Technical Services and Metadata Librarian, Colby Libraries. Prior to serving in this role, she enjoyed working as the Assistant Director of the Acadian Archives at the University of Maine at Fort Kent and as a manuscripts cataloger at the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah. Katie is a Bowdoin graduate and completed her MLS in archival management at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Outside of work, Katie loves all things relating to pop culture and '90s music, much to the dismay of her husband and cat.
  

  
  

  The Venue

  

  The Robinson Memorial Room is located in Special Collections at Miller Library on the Colby College Campus in Waterville.  View the campus map.

  Parking available in the Roberts Parking Lot, which is a short walk to the Miller Library.
  

  This venue is wheelchair accessible.

  
  

  Online registration will be open through Monday, July 8.  To register after this date, contact Pat Burdick at 207-859-5151 or patricia.burdick@colby.edu.

  The size of the workshop space limits registration to 25 participants - register early to reserve your space!

  MAM members enjoy discounted registration (please log in first).  If you're not a member, join today!

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• Waterville Mixer

  • When
    11 Jul 2019
  •  
    4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    Silver Street Tavern, 2 Silver St, downtown Waterville

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  Waterville Mixer
  

  

  Come meet your colleagues in Central Maine!  This social mixer event immediately follows the Metadata Basics workshop at Colby College, but you don't need to attend the workshop to attend this moxer.

  Food and drinks will be available for purchase.

  Please RSVP so we know to expect you. 

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