SEI 2020 Curriculum Announcement

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the curriculum for the 2020 Summer Educational Institute for Digital Stewardship of Visual Information.

SEI 2020 will be held at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL (just outside of Chicago) from June 23-26, 2020. Registration will open on January 13, 2020.

This intensive three and a half-day series of workshops features a curriculum taught by expert instructors who will cover:

• Project Management

• Copyright and Intellectual Property

• Digitization

• Metadata and Critical Cataloging

• DAMs, Digital Curation, and Digital Repositories

• Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusivity in Digital Collections

This year’s faculty includes:

• Steven M. Adams, Librarian for The Graduate School (TGS), Communication Sciences and Disorders, Psychology, and Counseling, Northwestern University Libraries and Board Chair, Black Metropolis Research Consortium

• Greta Bahnemann, Metadata Librarian, Minnesota Digital Library, University of Minnesota

• Carolyn Caizzi, Head, Repository and Digital Curation, Northwestern University Libraries

• Jesse Henderson, Digital Services Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Treshani Perera, Music & Fine Arts Cataloging Librarian, University of Kentucky

• Bonnie Rosenberg, Manager of Rights and Images, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

• Nancy Sims, Copyright Program Librarian, University of Minnesota

• Molly Szymanski, Digital Archivist, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Dan Zellner, Production Coordinator, Repository and Digital Curation, Northwestern University Libraries

View the module titles and descriptions here: https://seiworkshop.org/class-descriptions-2020/

New to SEI 2020 is the ability to Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA), an opportunity to customize your SEI experience through half-hour breakout sessions with several experts at Northwestern University. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, choose one of three opportunities to augment the main SEI curriculum modules and take a deeper dive into a specific topic. View the list of CYOA faculty and topics here: https://seiworkshop.org/choose-your-own-adventure/

The Summer Educational Institute is committed to creating and supporting inclusive, diverse, and equitable communities of practice. We strive to be a welcoming organization that provides information professionals with a substantive educational and professional development opportunity focused on the digital stewardship of visual information and the opportunity to create and participate in a network of supportive colleagues. SEI is a fantastic learning and networking opportunity for professionals interested in creating and maintaining sustainable digital collections of cultural heritage materials, including librarians, archivists, museum curators, visual resources librarians, and graduate students. View our Code of Conduct here: https://seiworkshop.org/code-of-conduct-2020/

For more information on SEI 2020, visit our website: https://seiworkshop.org/

Have questions? Please feel free to contact one of our co-chairs:

Courtney Baron (courtney.baron@louisville.edu)Bridget Madden (bridgetm@uchicago.edu)

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