Wondering when your next opportunity is to attend an archives conference, workshop, or course? Do you have extra professional development money just burning a hole in your pocket? Then check out CAA’s new professional development calendar section of the website where you will find professional development events, complete with event descriptions, links to event websites, and the ability to copy the event into your own Google calendar.

Many of these events are local but national and international conferences will be included as well. Topics range from traditional archives courses and workshops on subjects such as digital archives and copyright, to related fields such as records management and history conferences. Next up we have 3 SAA courses or workshops beginning Friday, September 23, 2016 on the topics of copyright law for archives, the accessioning and ingest of electronic records and the fundamentals of acquisition and appraisal. Followed by the ARMA conference starting Sunday, September 25, 2016 in San Antonio, Texas.

The calendar is available here: http://chicagoarchivists.org/professionaldevelopment. Please send suggestions for events or edits to info@chicagoarchivists.org.