Events

The next Austin Archives Bazaar will take place on Sunday, April 24, 2022, from 12-4pm at The Austin Beer Garden Brewing Company (aka ABGB) in South Austin! This year’s Bazaar will feature a fantastic lineup on our ever-popular Speakers Stage featuring special guest emcee, Chet Garner from AustinPBS’s The Daytripper!! Also on tap (ha!) are 20… Continue reading Austin Archives Bazaar 2022 – April 24, 2022

Art & Archives is a program series hosted by Archivists of Central Texas (ACT) that provides a space for local artists to come together in conversation with archives and library professionals to explore how their practice engages with archival materials and historical narratives. The series of programs is sponsored by The Summerlee Foundation. About the Artists:… Continue reading Art & Archives: Semente and Adrian Aguilera in Conversation – April 19th, 2022

Art & Archives is a program series hosted by Archivists of Central Texas (ACT) that provides a space for local artists to come together in conversation with archives and library professionals to explore how their practice engages with archival materials and historical narratives. The series of programs is sponsored by The Summerlee Foundation. About the… Continue reading Art & Archives: Dave McClinton and Veronica Ceci in Conversation – view recording

The Austin Archives Bazaar 2018 was a huge success! If you missed, it check out the photos below, or visit our Flickr Page

Digital Archives Panel – July 30, 11:30-1:00 pm. The panel, hosted by the Texas State Bar and sponsored by ACT, featured a group of panelists from Austin and San Antonio, who discussed the systems they’re using to manage their digital assets. Here’s the line up:

Members of ACT spent Thursday, June 25th at the Katherine Ann Porter School cleaning and rehousing photographs damaged by the Memorial Day Weekend floods. The event was covered by TWC News. Funds for supplies were provided by the Society of American Archivists Foundation’s National Disaster Recovery Fund for Archives. [flickr_set id=”72157655382661139″]

The Archivists of Central Texas will take a tour of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory (VPL) at the Pickle Research Campus on Tuesday, June 9 at 3:30p. From their website: “The Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory (VPL) is known worldwide as a major repository for unique scientific collections from the American Southwest…Today, VPL is the principal repository for vertebrate… Continue reading Vertebrate Paleontology Lab Tour

The Archivists of Central Texas will tour the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory located at the Pickle Research Campus on Thursday, April 16 at 3pm. After the tour, there will be a Happy Hour at Lala’s Christmas Bar. Sign up is limited to 20.You can sign up here: http://goo.gl/LpGmUz Carpooling arrangements are forthcoming. [flickr_set id=”72157649743845504″]

The University of Texas General Libraries will host a live DAS webinar next Tuesday, March 31 at 1-2:30pm. The webinar is live and is supposed to run 1.5 hours. http://saa.peachnewmedia.com/store/seminar/seminar.php?seminar=30983 You can sign up here: http://goo.gl/LpGmUzSign up is limited to 10. WHERE: University of Texas campus, PCL Library, Technology Integration Services conference room, PCL 1.128A, in the basement… Continue reading DAS Webinar: Archival Collections Management Systems [DAS]

February 19, 2015 begins the Year of the Sheep (or Goat, or Ram, if you prefer). Looking for a way to kick off your Lunar New Year celebrations? Come to our February 19th gathering, and talk with Austin-based archivist Lauren Kata about Archives in China. In October 2014, Lauren traveled to China to participate in… Continue reading Archives in China

The first ever Austin Archives Bazaar will kick off our local celebration of Archives Week on Sunday, October 19th, 2-6pm at the Spider House Ballroom near 29th St. and Guadalupe in Central Austin. The Bazaar will is a FREE, fun and engaging event open to the general public and appropriate for all ages. The heart of the event will see twenty Central Texas… Continue reading Austin Archives Bazaar is this Sunday!