Links from the Second Edition of the Handbook. See posts in the Skills category for the latest developments.
New!
@archivehour. Twitter chat about professional issues, last Thursday of the month.
Suggestions for external training
Rare Book School, Virginia, www.rarebookschool.org and the London Rare Books School, Institute of English Studies, University of London, http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/LRBS/index.htm.
Online learning
Preservation 101, free online textbook and course from the NEDCC, www.nedcc.org/free-resources/preservation-101.
Strategic Content Alliance created an e-learning resource for intellectual property and licensing, www.web2rights.com/SCAIPRModule.
Online tutorials from The National Archives: Beginners’ Latin 1086–1733 and Advanced Latin tutorials, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin and Reading Old Handwriting 1500–1800 tutorial, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography.
Cambridge University on palaeography, http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/handwriting.
The Special Collections Handbook 