Mary Ellen Goddard will offer four free one-hour seminars on archival practice to society volunteers each Friday from September 28-October 19th at 10:30 a.m. The seminars will take place at the Costa Mesa Historical Society Museum and Headquarters. Sessions will cover the following topics:
Session 1: What is the Costa Mesa Historical Society and what do we do? What is our collection policy?
Session 2: Registering, accessioning, cataloging, and “boxing”.
Session 3: What is in our collections? Helping our research customers. Ethics and collection security.
Session 4: Exhibits, from idea through installation, publicity and upkeep and de-installation.