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January Monthly Update
Schedule at a glance
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Call for Proposal open ArchivesSpace 2026 Virtual Member Forum
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[posted on behalf of the Virtual Member Forum Planning Team]
Mark your calendars for this year's Virtual Member Forum!
Taking place March 25-26, 2026, our Virtual Member Forum will be a two-day event spanning a variety of time zones and ArchivesSpace experience levels. A schedule and
information about how to register for the event will be released closer to the forum.
We are now accepting session proposals via our
online form. All users are encouraged to submit a proposal. We want the program to reflect the full spectrum of ArchivesSpace users – whether you are new to the platform, or a pro; running a hosted instance, or locally administered; whether you are part
of a large institution, or a lone arranger, let us hear from you. The deadline for submissions is February 27th.
We welcome presentations or discussions addressing any aspect of your institution’s ArchivesSpace use. The following ideas are provided to assist with brainstorming,
but are not meant to limit proposal topics in any way:
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Small Changes, Big Impacts: implementation of plugins, tools, or new workflows to make work in ArchivesSpace more efficient
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Half-Baked: share your in progress work in ArchivesSpace
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Show Off Your Instance (lightning talks encouraged)
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Adventures in Bulk Updating: workflows, tools, and tips for data migration and cleanup projects
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Doing Enough with Less: addressing challenges of limited resources, whether collections staff, funding, IT support, etc.
The following presentation formats are encouraged, although you can propose additional formats in your proposal submission:
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Presentations: There can be a standalone presenter or more than one if the topics are related.
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Discussions: Typically scheduled for the second day of the forum.. This would require a moderator. A discussion session should include panelists and/or guided questions to facilitate discussion.
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Lightning talks: 5-7 minute presentations, with collective Q&A after the final talk of the session has concluded
We will be reviewing proposals on a rolling basis, and we encourage you to get your proposals in early so that there is ample time to provide feedback or request clarification.
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Show us your ArchivesSpace implementation webinar series announcement
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In an effort to highlight the diverse archival organizations within the ArchivesSpace community and their different approaches to ArchivesSpace implementation, we are
developing an ongoing webinar series titled "Show Us Your Implementation."
Through this series, we hope community members are able to identify organizations with similar use cases to their own and to get inspired to approach ArchivesSpace in
a way they may not have considered before. To that end, we’ve created a
submission form to participate in this series. Submissions will remain open and will be evaluated on a rolling basis. We plan to offer these webinars regularly
and feature three institutions in each hour-long session. With almost 550 ArchivesSpace members, we hope this series will be a great success!
https://archivesspace.org/archives/232749
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Contribute your use case to the ArchivesSpace Help Center
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Based on community feedback, we’re working to add a new section to the ArchivesSpace Help Center featuring use cases from ArchivesSpace member organizations that highlight
how those organizations use the functionality within the application to accomplish their work. We know that community members are very eager for examples like this but to make this happen, we need your help!
While the ArchivesSpace User Documentation Sub-team of the User Advisory Council works to ensure the ArchivesSpace user manual contains the documentation necessary to
explain how the application works, we know that how individual organizations actually use the application depends on the specific context of your work.
Read
the full article on the ArchivesSpace blog >
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Community-wide training: Intro to the Public User Interface, February 4, 2025
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Register now: ArchivesSpace workshop at Code4Lib, March 5, 2026
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ArchivesSpace will be offering a hands-on workshop at Code4Lib 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 5, 2026.
Hands-On with ArchivesSpace: Docker Installation, Customization, and API Integration will guide participants through installing and customizing ArchivesSpace using Docker on your laptop.
Participants will walk away with a fully running ArchivesSpace installation ready for further experimentation and development.
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Registration available: Overview of the ArchivesSpace application and membership benefits
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ArchivesSpace is offering a 60-minute demonstration of the ArchivesSpace application open to anyone interested in ArchivesSpace or ArchivesSpace membership. This demonstration
will be offered on February 11, 2026 at 10:00am EST.
This demo will feature an overview of the application, a brief explanation of the ArchivesSpace Staff and Public User Interfaces and an introduction to the
ArchivesSpace
member community and
member benefits. A brief Q&A will follow the demo. These demos are intended to assist those who are considering using the ArchivesSpace application at their
organization to determine if ArchivesSpace is the right tool for their needs.
You can register for this upcoming demo or watch a previous demo of ArchivesSpace on
the
ArchivesSpace website >
Please email Archives...@lyrasis.org if you have any questions.
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Ukrainian translation of ArchivesSpace now available for review
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We are very pleased to announce that the ArchivesSpace application has been translated into its sixth language, Ukrainian.
This translation of the application was provided as a community contribution through the browser-based translation tool
Weblate.
We intend to make this translation available in the next release of ArchivesSpace. For now, you can test and explore this translation at
test.archivesspace.org.
This test instance of ArchivesSpace contains all ongoing development work and may contain bugs or otherwise not look exactly like a formal release of ArchivesSpace but if you’re interested in reviewing the translation, you’re welcome to do so by logging in
with the username admin and the password admin.
Read
the full article on the ArchivesSpace blog >
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Member Match First Friday events ongoing
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The Member Engagement Sub-team continues the Member Match First Friday Breaks, a monthly informal meeting held on the first Friday of each month at 12:30pm-1:30pm/9:30am-10:30am
PT.
This February 6th, the Member Engagement sub-team invites all Member Match participants to join us for an hour to discuss all things ArchivesSpace and beyond. This is
an opportunity for participants to meet other program participants outside their match and to interact with the team without an agenda.
If you are a current Member Match participant interested in attending these sessions, please check the announcement in the member match listserv for connection information.
Save the date: March 10 at 12:30 EST will be our Member Match Quarterly mixer. Please stay tuned to the Member Match Listserv for registration information.
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We are excited to welcome our newest members to our community! Some of our new members since December 31st include:
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Diocese of St. Augustine | Jacksonville, FL
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International Motor Racing Research Center | Watkins Glen, NY
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Middle Tennessee State University | Murfreesboro, TN
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Nashville Public Library | Nashville, TN
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Ohio University Libraries | Athens, OH
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Panola College | Carthage, TX
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Queer History Boston | Boston, MA
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Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum | Las Vegas, NV
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University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO
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Women Religious Archives Collaborative | Cleveland, OH
As of January 30th, we have 560 General members, 25 Educational Program members, 2 Registered Service Providers, 3 Consortium Providers, and 1 Affiliate.
Thank you to our
current
ArchivesSpace members for your contribution to the development and sustainability of the ArchivesSpace application. ArchivesSpace has a membership model
to support the continued development of the application and user community and ArchivesSpace members are eligible for a
variety
of benefits. If you are
interested
in ArchivesSpace membership for your organization, email us at
Archives...@lyrasis.org.
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