Webinar Series: Resources for Natural History Collections in a New Virtual World

Recognizing the rapid changes happening within museum communities and the efforts being made throughout the community to adapt to these changes, iDigBio is organizing a webinar series, entitled Adapting to COVID-19: Resources for Natural History Collections in a New Virtual World. The webinar series aims to help provide insight into how different groups and institutions are adapting to life in a quickly evolving world. AIBS, the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), and the Natural Science Collections Alliance contributed to the planning of these programs. The next two webinars will be held on October 27 and November 18 from 2:00-3:30 PM ET. All webinars will be recorded and held in Zoom. October 27: Virtual Project Management, Tips and Tools This webinar will focus on the basics of project management followed by lessons learned from the iDigBio community through managing multi-institution digitization projects (e.g. ADBC Thematic Collections Networks). Topics to include: organization, project tracking, communication strategies, and compiling and preparing reports. There will also be time for Q&A at the end of the webinar. Speakers: Diego Barroso; Project Manager TORCH TCN, BRIT Jen Zaspel; Terrestrial Parasite Tracker Lead PI David Jennings, Project Manager, iDigBio Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/99571640979?pwd=V0VwbDBySEtBYUptNUZ2L0RQNGh0UT09 November 18: Engaging Public Participation in Collections Digitization Learn a...
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