The Heritage Resource Center (HRC) will conduct six workshops in conjunction with the release of the Heritage Capital Projects Fund grant application for the upcoming biennium. These workshops are meant to assist representatives of non-profit heritage organizations, tribal governments, public development authorities, port districts, and city and county governments as they prepare their applications.

Best Practices for Digital Collections Management and E-Commerce: Images, Archives and Other Media in the Web 2.0 Environment, May 15, Olympia - Learn helpful ways to do basic scanning and organization of family photos, plus tips for storage and organizing on home computers for easy access and searching. Digital registrar Fred Poyner will demonstrate how the public can access and use WSHS online collections, including ordering images. Pre-registration required, E-mail mvessey@wshs.wa.gov to sign up. Cost is $20 through April 30, 2010, $25 May 1-14.

Washington State History Museum - Reschedule! Date to be announced

Project Management for History Professionals is a series of onsite workshops and webinar followup training providing 35 hours of formal project management training to history professionals. The training qualifies professionals in the history field to sit for the project management certification exam and provides expertise that will benefit participants and their institutions.

The goal of the program is to improve how history museums operate by bringing in the expertise of professionals from outside of the discipline to teach the fundamentals of project management to history professionals. This workshop instructs history professionals in best practices for establishing project requirements and planning and organizing work to meet them. The program teaches skills that strengthen the processes history professionals apply in their everyday work including exhibitions, education programs, fundraising initiatives, special events, outreach activities, collections-based projects, etc. These skills are critical to the development of improved processes and, therefore, an institution’s improved ability to serve its community.

The first workshop organized by the American Association for State and Local History will take place at the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma. The cost of the workshops is underwritten by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services and includes the cost of the workshop and a travel stipend for selected participants upon completion of the 11 follow-up webinar modules

To apply for the program or to request additional information, contact Steve Hoskins, PMHP project coordinator, at (615)426-5984 or Hoskins@aaslh.org or see http://www.aaslh.org/projectmanagement.htm.