Webinars
Watch live or catch up on demand. Join the AM team and guest presenters explore issues and discuss topics related to universities, libraries and archives.
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Successfully migrating digital collections: three institutions share their experiences of achieving their migration objectives
Wednesday 17 January 2024 | 9:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT
Your migration to a new digital collections platform demands a flexible, customer-led approach from your platform provider’s support team. Join this panel discussion to hear the experiences of Rice University, the University of Portland and Durham County Library, all of which have recently undertaken this transformative journey with AM Quartex.
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Torture, State Violence and Political Prisoners: Exploring the Global Human Rights Movement through the Amnesty International Archives
Tuesday 12 December | 2pm ET
Find out how our Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights collection can be used in teaching and research
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Discover AM Quartex: how public libraries are building community around local heritage collections
Join us to learn how public and state libraries are using AM Quartex to build digital archives that capture attention, excite and inspire, and provide a sustainable, centralised hub for community recollection.
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DAM and digital preservation systems: a new partnership to address preservation and presentation of your digital collections
Learn how Preservica’s Active Digital Preservation technology and AM Quartex, a digital asset management system and website creation tool, allow users to effortlessly preserve digitised assets and metadata to prevent future loss and degradation; and seamlessly surface these materials in a visually dynamic and accessible digital collections website.
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Comparing digitised First Folios: how new image viewer technology in Quartex is creating unprecedented research opportunities
Central to the concept of First Folios Compared is the creation of new ways in which to examine and compare digitised materials, using new image viewer capabilities in AM Quartex. Join us to see these capabilities in action, and explore ways in which they can support your research communities in making new discoveries and interpretations from digitised resources.
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Hidden in the archives: uncovering new perspectives with HTR
AI-driven HTR, available in the digital collections platform AM Quartex, has the power to take scholars beyond face value, biases and accepted interpretations, to unearth hidden perspectives and greater understanding of a broader range of experiences. Join us to experience the transformational power of HTR.
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Collaborate, unlock, create: using tech to get the most out of your library and archival collections
AM Quartex and Technology from Sage explore the latest tools designed to increase discoverability and use of your library’s collections.
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Migration simplified: discover our customer-led approach to migrating your digital collections
Your migration to a new digital collections platform should be as easy and enjoyable as possible, and led by you. Join us to learn more about our simplified and customer-first approach to migrating your digital collections.
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Uncovering archival materials in AM’s Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914
This webinar, with AM partners CHOICE, delves into how researchers can use archival materials to better understand the impact and response to European colonialism in Africa using the newly-published database Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914
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Embedding accessibility into digital collections
Digital access by today’s definition means more than simply making digital copies of physical materials available online. Join us to hear from two academic libraries that have placed accessibility front and centre of their digital open access programs, and how AM's UX team is using real world insights to improve accessibility within Quartex and our own digital primary source collections.
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Discover AM Quartex: our easy to use and quick to implement digital asset management system
Aerin Bowers shows how AM Quartex is transforming teaching and research for Canadian institutions using the system to create and showcase digital collections.
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Discover AM Quartex: engage patrons with your Texas heritage collections
Hear how public library systems across Texas are showcasing their local heritage collections, and learn from their example in using Quartex to build new partnerships and collaborations.