The Digital Art of Preserving Your Memories
Do you have photos, home movies and videos, cassette tapes, and who knows what in a box under the bed or on a thumb drive in a drawer calling for your attention? Or thousands of photos on your phone or computer or in the cloud? Not sure how even to begin organizing, preserving, sharing, and passing on these memories? Need some motivation to get started?
October is Family History Month and National Archives Month, and the time is perfect to join your UWRA colleagues for an introduction to options for preserving your memories digitally. Using results from this past May’s survey of members, UWRA Member Jane Richard will discuss reasons for preserving your memories, outline steps in the process, suggest how to choose whether to do this yourself or work with a professional service, and how to find resources for learning more.
If you imagine yourself as a DIY-er or feel uneasy sending your memorabilia to someone else, UWRA Member Scott Springman will show you a couple of relatively easy methods to digitize a few–or even a large number of–pictures and suggest how AI might help.
Joyal Holder, Owner and Chief Preservation Officer of Holder Printworks of Madison, which helps preserve family memories, will describe what it’s like to work with a professional to archive your legacy.
After these informal presentations, we will have plenty of time for you to ask questions and share some of your experiences.
If you have preliminary questions for the speakers, please send to Program Coordinators Brad Hughes at bthughes@wisc.edu, Jane Richard at janemrichard@gmail.com, Scott Springman at srspring@wisc.edu and Kathy Christoph at kathy.christoph@gmail.com by Friday, September 13.
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Checks payable to UW-Foundation, with "Open Seat" on the memo line may be mailed to UWRA, 21 North Park Street, Room 7205, Madison, WI 53715-1218.
Registration Deadline: Monday, September 16
Registration:
Advance registration is required. You are encouraged to register online. To register by phone or email, call the Association office. If you or your guest registered for this seminar but cannot attend, please cancel your registration online, or email/call the UWRA office.
NOTE: The weblink and virtual call information will be included in the meeting reminders registrants receive.
UW-Madison Retirement Association
21 N Park St, Room 7205
Madison WI 53715-1218
608-262-0641
retireassn@mailplus.wisc.edu
