Public Resource Hub

In alphabetical order:

• Advocacy: Information or tools to support and train effective advocacy for cultural heritage endeavors.

• Allied Organization: Websites of organizations in the cultural heritage community with related missions, affinities, and needs. 

  • Note: CHAACo does not necessarily have a relationship with these organizations; we are just beginning to build our inter-organizational relationships.

• Call to Action: Requests for mass participation in a coordinated, targeted response to a recognized problem or opportunity related to CHAACo's mission.

• Current Events (News): Links to news articles and discussions relevant to current advocacy, policy, and related needs in the cultural heritage community.

  • For news that does not fit into at least one other resource category, articles with substantive information, discussion, and/or analysis will be the most helpful and durable.

• Event to Attend: Information about an event that cultural heritage community members may be interested in attending, such as conferences or gatherings related to cultural heritage or advocacy.

• Grant: Grant opportunities for cultural endeavors. This may also be used to label resources related to grants, such as advice on rescinded grants.

  • If submitting a specific grant opportunity, please check to verify that it is currently supported by its funding organization.

• Job Posting: Listings for jobs and other job boards in the cultural heritage sector.

• Online Resource: Article or website that provides information or tools to empower the cultural heritage community.

• Template: Advocacy letter-writing scripts and templates.

• Training Opportunity: Listings for opportunities to expand skills relevant to careers in cultural heritage, such as courses, webinars, workshops, or internships.

• Other: Miscellaneous resources. 

The resource types listed may change and grow at any time!

Searching for information:

• Use any combination of the Hide Fields, Filter, Group, Sort, and Find in View tools at the top of the table to refine the list of resources by any parameters you want. You can also right-click on a specific column header or select the down-arrow that appears in the column header to apply filtering tools relevant to that column.

• For more information on searching and filtering, see the "How to apply the filter tools" tip section, below.

• If you want to look specifically for Job Postings or Job Boards, we recommend using our dedicated Job Board database.

Optimizing your interface experience:

• For the best viewing experience, we recommend using the database on a computer rather than a mobile device.

• To expand a single resource for easier reading, click twice on the resource name, or click once on the diagonal-arrows button that appears to the left of the name. In this expanded "card" view, you can also click the up and down arrows in the top left corner to read through consecutive records while staying in the same view format.

• To show more or less of the text in the table, use the Row Height tool to make the rows the desired height.

• For a full-page experience of the table, click the "View larger version" button at the bottom right corner of the table. 

• You can print or download the data as a .CSV file or using the "more" ellipsis button (...).

Troubleshooting:

• If the embedded table doesn't load, or if you can't find the "View larger version" button, click the "view the full-page version here" link right above where the table should have appeared.

• If you don't see the drop-down option you want to select in the filter for a single- or multiple-selection field, it's because none of the current resources have that option selected. The filters only let you pick from options that match at least one record in the table.

• If you have trouble scrolling:

  • Make sure your cursor focus is on the feature you want to move (such as the margin around the embedded table). 

  • If you are using a mouse with a scroll wheel, holding the shift key or shift-control while scrolling may allow you to scroll horizontally. 

  • You can also zoom out on your browser window to make the interface fit your screen size and make scrolling easier. 

  • If you still have trouble, we recommend clicking the "View larger version" button at the bottom right corner of the table. 

Hide Tool

This allows you to hide fields (columns) so they don't clutter your view or so that you can refer between nonconsecutive fields without scrolling.

Sort Tool

Sort lets you put all of the records (rows) in order by relevant criteria based on one or more fields.

Example:

• If you want to sort all visible records alphabetically by Organization name or numerically by Hourly Pay Amount, you can right-click or click the down arrow on the header, and select Sort A -> Z.

Group Tool

This helps you organize the data you're looking at by sorting the records (rows) into subsets (groups) based on field contents. This is most elegant for single-selection fields, of which there are not many in our database, but it can be useful for other kinds of fields, such as Compensation Type (a multiple-selection field), where there are not an overwhelming number of unique options or combinations.

Find in View Tool

You can use the Find in View tool (magnifying glass icon at the top) to highlight all non-hidden contents that contain key terms or names such as "Detroit", or strings of characters, such as or "conserv" (to search for conservation, conservator, or conserved) or "migra" (to search for immigrant, immigration, migratory or Migra). 

Tip: For words and phrases that are sometimes written in different ways, remember to check for other variants and spellings. (E.g., "full time" and "full-time".)

Filter Tool

The filter tool uses logical expressions to help you get to exactly the information you want by hiding records that do not meet your criteria. Click the down-arrow in the header of a specific column you want to filter by, then Filter by this Field, and enter your condition for that field using the drop-down menus. 

This job board has multiple fields set up specifically to serve as filtering tools. 

Filtering by tags

All of the fields with colorful text bubbles in them (single-selection and multiple-selection fields) are designed with standardized options for consistent filtering. 

Example:  If you want to search for only "online resources," select the Filter tool at the top of the page and fill in the condition:

"Where Resource Type(s) has any of Online Resource"

Please note: only tags that have actually been used to label active resources will show up in the drop-down options in the filter tools. E.g., if no unexpired resources have been tagged "Events to Attend," that phrase will not appear as an option when you filter by Resource Type(s). 

Filtering text fields

Text fields can be filtered by strings of characters. 

Example:  If you want to see job listings that probably include information about benefits, other than those shown with the Compensation Type tag "Benefits", you can set up a filter condition group with something like the following:

"Where Description contains benefit

or Description contains health

or Description contains dental

or Description contains retirement"