Webinars

Tuesday 21 April | 10am-1pm EDT

AM’s first North America focused virtual symposium, Reimagining Primary Sources: Literacy, learning and leadership, will hear from researchers, faculty and librarians who have placed primary sources at the heart of education.

12 March | 10am PT | 1pm ET | 5pm GMT

This webinar explores the vital role of the humanities in preparing adaptable, future‑ready graduates. Featuring expert voices from the UK and US, it highlights new research on student outcomes and showcases initiatives demonstrating how humanities degrees cultivate skills that support successful professional careers.

Discover how integrating primary sources into teaching can equip students with critical skills and digital literacy. Join speakers, including Chris Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University, to explore practical strategies for enhancing employability and transforming the student experience.

Discover practical insights on digital collection migration and learn how AM Quartex supports organisations at every stage. We demonstrate how to streamline processes, alleviate frustrations, and empower teams to rethink how they organise content for meaningful research experiences.

Discover how AM’s 2026 frontlist can strengthen your collection strategy and enhance research, teaching, and digital engagement across your institution. This session explores new primary source content, its thematic impact, and the long-term value it brings to libraries.

Learn how to use magazines as powerful tools for research and teaching while uncovering how they shaped ideas of girlhood, fun, and identity across the twentieth century. This webinar offers fresh perspectives, practical methods, and rich source material from AM’s Girlhood: Magazines and Print Culture collection.

In this webinar, you'll learn about the AM Quartex difference as we highlight examples of seamless migrations, improved performance, and future-ready digital collections that deliver lasting impact for archives and their communities.

From MARC records to AI-assisted indexing, this webinar in partnership with CHOICE offers an end-to-end look at how AM creates and enhances metadata for its primary source collections to connect diverse resources and content types with scholars.

Discover how primary sources can bridge disciplines, deepen learning, and inspire new ways of thinking throughout your library.

In this Library Journal-partnered webinar, experts from the University of Warwick, Diablo Valley College, and AM explore innovative approaches to AI and student research, with a focus on the value of primary sources. 

In this Choice-partnered webinar, experts from the British Library and AM share how their partnership enhances discovery and access to historical documents for impactful interdisciplinary research.
 

Archivists from the Perkins School for the Blind share how AM Quartex enables them to meet high organisational standards regarding equitable access to online content.

Speaking at the AM Quartex Digital Collections Symposium, two members of Towson University's Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) team, Ashley Todd-Diaz and Emiel Brown, share how they work with partners across campus to build and enrich the institution’s shared memory.

The University of Liverpool is using tools in AM Quartex to support multiple collection needs, from OCR for student newspapers and graduation lists, IIIF functionality for medieval manuscripts, and exhibitions to spotlight campus history.

This case study from Russell Michalak, Director of Library and Archives at Goldey-Beacom College, highlights the library's role in bridging creativity and technology, emphasising the importance of metadata standards for preserving and categorising both human and AI-generated works.

In the AM Digital Collections Symposium keynote session, Felix Barnes, Publishing Manager at AM, discusses the application of machine learning to enhance metadata creation for archives, focusing on named entity recognition and topic modelling.

Speaking at AM's Digital Collections Symposium, Norie Guthrie, Archivist & Special Collections Librarian, reveals how the team is leveraging a variety of library and archives systems to make more engaging exhibits and research guides, published using Quartex.

Speaking at AM's Digital Collections Symposium, editors Alice Hone and Emily Stafford explore the complexities of publishing sensitive archival content, illustrating their discussion with AM's Amnesty International Archives.

In this Choice-partnered webinar, Philip Gooding (McGill University) and Brian Atwater (University of Washington) joined AM's Dr. Laura Blomvall to share how digitised archival material have advanced our understanding of the Earth's climate.

Celebrate the Quartex community's commitment to diversity, access and awareness. 

Join AM's Emily Stallworthy to consider how engaging with primary sources can create a more enriching, and dynamic educational experience across all majors. Emily showcases learning resources from our AM Research Skills series, designed to develop the key information literacy and critical thinking skills needed for student success.

Educators and editors discuss the integration of materials and primary sources from The National Archives, UK, into education, highlighting efforts to advance accessibility, celebrate diversity, and refine pedagogy.

Join AM as we explored the interdisciplinary applications of archival material beyond history classes.

Audiovisual (AV) primary sources often remain underutilised despite their interdisciplinary potential. Explore recent research by AM and Library Journal and see examples of how AM Quartex's cutting-edge technologies can maximise the discovery and accessibility of your digitised AV content.