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June Monthly Update
Schedule at a glance
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Registration is now open for the 2026 ArchivesSpace Member Forum in New Orleans
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The ArchivesSpace program team is excited to announce that
registration
is now open for the
12th annual ArchivesSpace Member Forum.
This year’s forum will be held on July 29, 2026, from 9:00am-12:30pm, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the
Hyatt
Regency New Orleans.
This community-driven member forum is a
free
half-day event open to anyone affiliated with an ArchivesSpace member institution. While this event is free, registration
is required. Breakfast will be provided.
Just as in previous years, this will be a free opportunity for staff from ArchivesSpace member institutions to meet and share information with each other and the program
team, but this year’s forum will be a little different. This year, we will be joined by Bridget Almas, Director of Community Supported Technologies at Lyrasis, for a facilitated discussion on AI. In this discussion, we hope to hear from you about your organization’s
AI related policies, your experiences and concerns about using AI in the archives, and how you see AI intersecting with ArchivesSpace. In order to facilitate open discussion,
this year’s forum will not be recorded.
You can register at any time or learn more about the agenda on
the
event wiki.
Feel free to contact the ArchivesSpace team at Archives...@lyrasis.org with questions. We look forward to seeing many of you there!
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Webinar announcement: Omeka S ArchivesSpace Connector integration
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Join us on
July 8, 2026, at 12:00pm ET/9:00am PT
for this webinar introducing the ArchivesSpace community to Omeka's new ArchivesSpace connector. Members of the Omeka team will demonstrate how to connect an
Omeka S instance to an ArchivesSpace repository. A Q&A will follow.
Those using or interested in using Omeka S to manage digital assets or those who are interested in learning more about how to integrate ArchivesSpace with other systems
are encouraged to attend. Anyone is welcome to attend, but registration is required.
To learn more about the Omeka S connector,
visit
their website here >
Register
for the webinar here >
This webinar will be recorded and made available on the ArchivesSpace YouTube channel.
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Metadata standards adoption principles
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The Metadata Standards subteam of the ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council has adopted a set of principles to guide decisions around the adoption and maintenance
of external metadata standards, models, and guidelines in ArchivesSpace.
These principles are intended as a flexible framework for evaluating a wide range of standards and supporting a spectrum of adoption approaches within ArchivesSpace.
You can
read
the full principles here >
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Recording available: Basic Record Creation in ArchivesSpace, June 3, 2026
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Thank you to everyone who attended the ArchivesSpace community-wide training for Basic Record Creation in ArchivesSpace on June 3, 2026. The recording of this training
is available to ArchivesSpace members in
the Help Center.
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Join us for ArchivesSpace's first UK forum
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Mark your calendars for ArchivesSpace’s first community forum held in the UK!
Join us at Bodleian Library - University of Oxford on August 18th from 9:30-16:00 to meet members of the ArchivesSpace team, learn about other archives’ use of ArchivesSpace,
and discuss ways ArchivesSpace and the ArchivesSpace member community could better meet your organization’s needs.
This forum is open to anyone using or interested in using ArchivesSpace but
registration
is required.
The agenda for this forum is still being developed but in order to better plan for the event, we ask anyone planning to attend the forum to complete our
registration
form at your earliest convenience. Registration for the forum will close on July 31st.
We look forward to hearing from you at the forum. If you have any questions, please email us at
Archives...@lyrasis.org.
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Recording available: Overview of the ArchivesSpace Application and Membership
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Thank you to everyone who attended the live demonstration of ArchivesSpace on June 16th. The recording to this demo is available on the
ArchivesSpace
website.
For any questions regarding the demonstration, or ArchivesSpace membership, please email Archives...@lyrasis.org.
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New members of our Governance Board and Advisory Councils
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On behalf of Erik Mitchell, Chair of the Nominating Committee
I am pleased to announce the results of the recent Governance Board election as well as new appointments to the Technical Advisory Council and the User Advisory Council.
All will serve three-year terms from July 1, 2026-June 30, 2029.
Governance Board
Large level member representative: Maggie Hughes, The Getty Research Institute
Small level representative: Hadiya Lee, Davidson College
Very Small level representative: JA Pryse, Heritage and Research Center at St. Mary’s
Technical Advisory Council
View
the newest Technical Advisory Council members here >
User Advisory Council
View the newest User Advisory Council members here >
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We are excited to welcome our newest members to our community! Some of our new members since May 31st include:
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Carter Johnson Library & Collection | Evansville, IN
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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | Boston, MA
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Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs | Vancouver, BC
As of June 30th, we have 574 General members, 26 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.
ArchivesSpace monthly updates provide news about ArchivesSpace community and program activities and are sent to our member listservs, the ArchivesSpace non-member
Google Group, and SAA’s Collection Management Section listserv, as well as being posted on the ArchivesSpace website and LinkedIn. Please feel free to share this update with people you know who have an interest in ArchivesSpace but may not be on one of these
lists.
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