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December Monthly Update
Schedule at a glance
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2026 training announcement
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The 2026 ArchivesSpace virtual training schedule is now available at
https://archivesspace.org/resources/user-resources/trainings.
We’re very excited to be offering 6 virtual training opportunities this year!
ArchivesSpace will be offering four community-wide virtual training offerings in 2026. Each training will include a quick start guide for attendees to reference during
and after the training as well as immediate access to the recording of the training.
Individuals from ArchivesSpace member organizations are eligible for a $100 discount on training. To receive the discount, follow the link provided and create or login
to your MyLyrasis account. Your MyLyrasis account must be affiliated with an ArchivesSpace member organization. This can be accomplished by creating an account or logging into your preexisting account with an email address affiliated with an ArchivesSpace
member organization’s email domain. Once logged in, your discount should be applied.
If you are using an email address affiliated with an ArchivesSpace member organization and your discount is not applied, email
Archives...@lyrasis.org
before completing checkout.
ArchivesSpace members who cannot attend the training will have access to the training recording in the
Help
Center following each training.
In addition to these four community-wide trainings, ArchivesSpace will be offering two member-only training opportunities in 2026. These trainings will be offered to
the ArchivesSpace member community at no charge. These trainings are still in development and registration will open closer to the dates.
You can view the full training calendar for 2026 at
https://archivesspace.org/resources/user-resources/trainings
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Introducing ArchivesSpace’s five-year strategic roadmap
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[posted on behalf of Maggie Hughes, Chair of the ArchivesSpace Governance Board, FY2025-26]
The ArchivesSpace Governance Board is excited to share a new
five-year
strategic roadmap. The development of the roadmap was a primary focus of the Board for the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
During the 2024-2025 term, the Board engaged in a series of strategic discussions framed around the four
It
Takes a Village (ITaV) open source sustainability facets: Governance, Community Engagement, Technology, and Resources. The ITaV Framework and Toolkit is
a practical reference source and set of tools developed by Lyrasis to help open-source software programs serving cultural and scientific heritage organizations plan for long-term sustainability, assess and develop balanced strategies to advance sustainability
goals, and integrate sustainability plans into other organizational planning efforts.
Read
the full article on the ArchivesSpace Blog >
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Register now: member-only discussion of proposed enhancements to ArchivesSpace by Yale University
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Join us on January 13, 2026, at 12:00pm-1:00pm EST (find
your local time) to contribute to a discussion with Yale University on enhancements to ArchivesSpace they would like to contribute back to the core code
of the application.
Building on their December 8th presentation at our
webinar
on community enhancement projects currently in development, Alicia Detelich and Mary Kidd of Yale University would like to hear directly from the member
community about the changes they would like to contribute to the community. These changes include improving the make representative functionality in the Digital Objects module of ArchivesSpace, support for a IIIF viewer within the application, and CSV export
refactoring.
Read
the full article on the ArchivesSpace blog >
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Training announcement: intro to the Public User Interface, February 4, 2025
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ArchivesSpace will be offering our first community-wide training of 2026 on
February 4, 2026, from
12pm-3pm ET/9am-12pm PT. This training will introduce attendees to the ArchivesSpace
Public User Interface.
Upon completing this workshop, participants will:
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understand the function of agent, subject and classification records in the ArchivesSpace application
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be able to create agent and subject records in ArchivesSpace
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be able to edit agent and subject records in ArchivesSpace
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be able to merge agent records in ArchivesSpace
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be able to link agent and subject records to other record types in ArchivesSpace
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be able to create classifications in ArchivesSpace
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be able to link records to classifications in ArchivesSpace
This workshop presumes that participants have taken the ArchivesSpace Basics workshop or have practical experience with ArchivesSpace sufficient to create records with
minimal guidance. It also assumes that all participants have solid knowledge of basic archival descriptive standards and workflows.
If you are interested in attending this training, you can learn more or register at
https://my.lyrasis.org/event-information?id=a0lUh00000iZDttIAG.
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See something, change something: highlighting community initiatives to improve the ArchivesSpace application
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Live Demonstration on December 10, 2025: overview of the ArchivesSpace
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We are excited to welcome our newest members to our community! Some of our new members since November 30th include:
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Buffalo County Historical Society | Kearney, NE
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Occidental College | Los Angeles, CA
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San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum | San Antonio, TX
As of December 23rd, we have 551 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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