LYRASIS is offering many preservation and digitization online classes this spring, including "Creating Online Exhibits: New Ways to Reach Out, Advocate, and Publicize Your Collections and Services," "Promotion and Outreach for Preservation," and more. We have brand new classes coming up later this spring too, on loaning special collections and outsourcing audiovisual reformatting. Find the full class schedule and register at https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/events.aspx 3/30 LYRASIS Free Webinar: NEH Preservation Assistance Grants<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=BEB246D0-D0EA-E511-80CF-00155D0A8824> **Mary Downs, Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for Humanities will join this session to talk about the 2016 guidelines and answer your questions** 4/5 Creating Online Exhibits: New Ways to Reach Out, Advocate, and Publicize Your Collections and Services<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=59607B52-5D82-E511-AFEB-00155D0A8817> 4/7 All History is Local: Find, Preserve, and Digitize Collections that Tell the Story<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=315973D9-21C1-E511-80C6-00155D0A881B> 4/12 Starting Right: Introduction to Digital Project Management Planning<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=C74EA5D1-49CC-E511-80C7-00155D0A881B> 4/21 Promotion and Outreach for Preservation<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=67885EFF-23C1-E511-80C6-00155D0A881B> 4/22 LYRASIS 2nd Friday Double Feature - Freeing Rapunzel: Rescuing A (Somewhat) Forgotten Collection from the Tower<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=03853D6C-6FF0-E511-80CF-00155D0A8824> - Free session 4/26 Establishing Emergency Response Networks for Cultural Collections<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=125DBEC3-23C1-E511-80C6-00155D0A881B> 5/2 Grant Writing for Digitization and Preservation Projects<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=378664A9-56CC-E511-80C7-00155D0A881B> 5/5 Advanced Digital Stewardship<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=847CEEEF-57CC-E511-80C7-00155D0A881B> 5/6 Personal Digital Preservation: Bigger than a Shoebox<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=34ADC537-24C1-E511-80C6-00155D0A881B> ...and more coming up in May and beyond. See the full class schedule<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/events.aspx>. Look for our *brand new* classes with sessions scheduled in May and June: 5/11 and 5/13 Outsourcing Audiovisual Digitization<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=89921507-65E5-E511-80CE-00155D0A8824> 5/26 Loaning and Borrowing Special Collections<https://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/EventDetail.aspx?Eid=B3744FB3-65E5-E511-80CE-00155D0A8824> Best, Annie Annie Peterson Preservation Services Librarian annie.peterson@lyrasis.org<mailto:annie.peterson@lyrasis.org> 678.235.2923 peterson.annie Skype [LYRASIS]