Community–Coffee–Cultures | Archives & Education | Jan 30, 2024

Join for the third session of an informal discussion group among archivists that we are calling Community–Coffee–Cultures (CCC)! We meet on the last Tuesday of every other month at 14:00 UTC (London time), for anywhere between 45-60 minutes.

Tue, Jan 30, 2024. 14:00 GMT/UTC (London time) — [your local time: https://bit.ly/Jan30-localtime]
Focus: Archival education and training
[Please email back with your prompts/thoughts on this topic if you have any, so that it can serve as a conversation starter!]

Zoom meeting link:
https://bit.ly/ica-suv-community
Meeting ID: 987 0466 4511
Passcode: 230926

Note: This session will be in English. While interpretation into other languages is not provided unfortunately, participants can help translate for each other! It’s quite informal.

What is Community–Coffee–Cultures (CCC)?
Some of you may remember a reading group that we started in 2020 (https://www.ica.org/en/suv-reading-group). We thought we’d do something slightly different for this next year. Thank you to all who participated in the reading group, and please feel free to continue joining us! Community–Coffee–Cultures (CCC) is to build community, learn from varied cultures of practice around the world, and maybe have coffee (or other beverage of choice). We hope this will also be a way of fostering discussion and who knows, even collaboration. We are picking six broad themes to see how archives in different parts of the world think about these. Discussions are not structured, and they are not restricted to the theme during these meetings!

Future CCCs:
Tue, Mar 26: Salaries, parities, and labo(u)r issues
Tue, May 28: Cataloging, archival description niggles, metadata
Tue, Jul 30: Ethics in sourcing, access and use of collections

Past CCCs:
Tue, Sep 26: Digitization practices
Tue, Nov 28: Appraisal practices

Please mark your calendars! We will send a reminder a day before meeting. In the meantime, do let us know if you have ideas or would like to join to take this forward. If you’re interested and can’t make it because of the time, do email us and maybe you can also help run a parallel meeting at another time!