Greetings, The Community Collections Spotlight webinar series continues...the next webinar features Lori Goldstein from WESTAF on their Public Art Archive. More about this series, upcoming free webinars and registration is available at the links below. Webinar Series LYRASIS and CollectionSpace are very pleased to announce the "Community Collections Spotlight" - a series of webinars highlighting the way organizations are using open source software to evolve collections management practices, improve visitor experience, increase productivity and efficiency, and adhere to standards and best practices to increase financial and operational support for collections activities. https://lyrasiscollections.org/community-collections-spotlight-webinar-series/ Community Collections Spotlight: Exploring the Public Art Archive (Webinar 2 for PAA)<https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=B7F9450A-846B-E911-80F6-00155D73CF39> As a follow-up to the first webinar in the series, a second presentation will highlight how system users are able to publish objects in their databases to the publicly searchable Public Art Archive, an online and mobile database of public art. The Public Art Archive utilizes the Public Art Archive CMS to aggregate data throughout the world for the purpose of making information, locations, and images searchable on the Archive's website. To accomplish this, the Public Art Archive team has harnessed the potential of the CollectionSpace architecture to present the data in ways that provide sustainable engagement for artists, public art collections, the educators, and the general public. Speaker: Lori Goldstein, WESTAF Date & Time: Nov. 7, 1:00 - 2:30 PM EST https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=B7F9450A-846B-E911-80F6-00155D73CF39 Community Collections Spotlight: Exploring CollectionSpace Collaborations - Material Order Consortium<https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=C4293F38-1CAB-E911-80FE-00155D73CF3B> The Material Order Consortium is a collaboration among the libraries of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Parsons School of Design. Each of these schools manages a collection of "design materials" - materials used by architects, designers, and artists in their work. The core goal of the consortium is to provide a community and standards-based approach to describing and managing materials collections. This webinar will feature speakers from the consortium, and its engagement with CollectionSpace. The speakers will talk about the common needs and benefits that brought the different design materials-holding institutions together, and how they worked together to: create a shared controlled vocabulary for materials; define the standard for describing design materials and create a CollectionSpace profile to support that standard; and fund a shared public collections browser. Speakers: Johanna Kasubowski & Ann Baird Whiteside, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Margot Nishimura & Mark Pompelia, Rhode Island School of Design Date & Time: Dec. 4, 1:00 - 2:30 PM EST https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=C4293F38-1CAB-E911-80FE-00155D73CF3B You can see more on the series itself at: https://lyrasiscollections.org/community-collections-spotlight-webinar-series/ Best wishes, Laurie Gemmill Arp Interim Director, DuraSpace Community Supported Programs laurie.arp@lyrasis.org<mailto:laurie.arp@lyrasis.org> 800.999.8558 x 2908 [cid:D9C43C04-DF4E-467C-B0BC-358EF417F998]