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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“Girls just wanna have fun”: Exploring girlhood through magazines and print culture
Thursday 30 October | 9am PT | 11am CT | 12noon ET | 4pm GMT
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.
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From frustration to innovation: A brighter future with AM Quartex
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.
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Enhancing discovery and accessible research pathways through metadata
Tuesday 21 October | 8am PDT | 11am EDT | 4pm BST
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.
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Unlocking the multidisciplinary value of primary sources
Discover how primary sources can bridge disciplines, deepen learning, and inspire new ways of thinking throughout your library.
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Teaching critical thinking and AI literacy through the 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.
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Enhancing research and discoverability of primary source material from the British Library
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webinar, experts from the British Library and AM share how their partnership enhances discovery and access to historical documents for impactful interdisciplinary research.
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Making online content accessible with AM Quartex: Insights from the Perkins School for the Blind
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.
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Publishing sensitive content using AM 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.
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Unlocking stories: Towson University's journey to expanding digital archives with AM Quartex
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.
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All under one roof: How to leverage AM Quartex to simplify your internet presence
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.
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Machine learning and metadata with AM's Felix Barnes
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.
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Bridging creativity and preservation: Leveraging AM Quartex for AI and student-generated art
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.
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Redefining research: Uncovering climate impact insights with digitised primary sources
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.
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Digital Collections Symposium with AM Quartex
Celebrate the Quartex community's commitment to diversity, access and awareness.
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What is AM publishing in 2025? (Part I)
Members of AM's editorial team explored the upcoming collections publishing in 2025, in this first part of our two-part webinar series.
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What is AM publishing in 2025? (Part II)
Members of AM's Editorial team explored our upcoming collections publishing in 2025 in the second installment of our two-part webinar.
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Boosting student success: leveraging historical sources for non-history majors
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.
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Beyond history: Using primary sources in interdisciplinary teaching and research
Join AM as we explored the interdisciplinary applications of archival material beyond history classes.
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AV primary sources in your library: a valuable but underutilised tool
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.
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Enhancing discoverability: An introduction to AM Quartex’s web publishing power
Discover AM Quartex, our innovative digital collections publishing platform, with this 30-minute introductory webinar.
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Unlocking student success through Spanish language primary sources
We were joined by Faculty Engagement Associate, Joe Young-Perez, and Dr Matthew Butler from the University of Texas at Austin as they explored how AM’s first non-English language resource, Mexico in History: Colonialism to Revolution, c.1500-1929, can be used in undergraduate teaching.
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Teaching with government documents from The National Archives, UK
AM Archives Direct provides crucial insight into modern geopolitics from the perspective of the British state with material drawn exclusively from The National Archives, UK. Explore the teaching and research value of these documents with Dr. Matt Graham, University of Dundee alongside Nick Jackson and Alex Barr, both from AM's Editorial Production team.
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Cape Ann Museum: Building digital collections for community access
Hear from Cape Ann Museum and discover how they have utilised AM Quartex to transform their collections. In this webinar, we explore how leveraging our DAMS has simplified asset management and organisation, showcasing the museum and encouraging community passion.
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Uncovering the hidden voices of everyday women in primary sources
To celebrate our collection, Women's Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968, we examine how vivid narratives and diverse materials can amplify and reveal the voices of women across the centuries.