Archives Awareness Week

There are many ways you can celebrate and promote archives. Here are a few ideas to try during Archives Awareness Week:

• Organize a workshop
• Sponsor a lecture by a researcher who has used your collection
• Organize a walking tour
• Visit local schools
• Create an online exhibition
• Host a ‘lunch and learn’ at your institution
• Display an archival film
• Write an article for your local paper, or publish a blog post
• Tweet/Facebook entries from a journal for a week using #2017AAW
• Host a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of your institution
• Host an open house
• Host a tea, serve a dessert baked from a cookbook in your collection
• Host an ‘Ask A Conservator’ event (online or in person)
• Host an online Q&A “Ask your Archives”
• Highlight an underrepresented community in your archives and seek records this week

Not sure how to promote your archives or an event? Here are some resources to get you started:

• Building Media Relations
• Getting the Media to Your Event
• Press Release Format
• Press Release Template
• Tips on Writing a Press Release
• The Press Kit
• Tips on Conducting a Successful Tour