Aviary September 2025 News

Explore Aviary’s New Content Hub

We’re excited to announce that all of Aviary's learning and engagement resources are now available at aviary.aviaryplatform.com! This new hub features the How to Aviary collection—your go-to series for mastering the basics of the platform—along with the Aviary Public Meetings and Webinars collection, where you'll find recordings of our Community of Practice meetings and webinars.

Upcoming Webinars

Scaling Up with Aviary’s Import Options
September 18, 3:00pm EDT 
Join us for a practical introduction to Aviary's bulk import and update features, designed to help you efficiently upload and manage large sets of resources and metadata. This webinar will guide you through preparing your data using Aviary's templates and leveraging tools like Media Staging to simplify managing and importing your audiovisual content and metadata. We’ll also provide an overview of Aviary’s open API, highlighting how it can extend and automate your workflows. Whether you're migrating legacy collections or creating new projects, this session will give you the confidence and know-how to scale your work in Aviary. Ideal for archivists, librarians, and digital collection managers.

Getting Started with Permissions and Access Management in Aviary
October 30, 3:00pm EDT
Learn the fundamentals of managing who can view, access, and interact with your content in Aviary. This introductory webinar will walk through Aviary’s permission features, including content visibility settings, permission groups, public access URLs, and user roles. Whether you're just starting out or need a refresher, this session will give you a clear understanding of how to control access to your collections while aligning with your organization’s policies. Ideal for all users and organizations with restricted audiovisual content. 

Advanced Strategies for Permissions and Access Management in Aviary
November 13, 3:00pm EST
Building on the foundation from the previous webinar, this session dives deeper into Aviary’s advanced permissions and access features. Learn how to implement complex access scenarios using SSO integration, IP restrictions, time-based access windows, and tiered user roles. We’ll also explore real-world case studies from Aviary users, highlighting practical solutions to common access management challenges. Ideal for users managing sensitive, multi-stakeholder, or dynamic content collections.

Aviary Community of Practice

The Aviary Community of Practice is where users and developers come together to share ideas, collaborate, and shape the future of the platform. Through regular community calls every other month, members exchange best practices, spark partnerships, and provide input that helps Aviary grow with its users’ needs. Recent meetings have included organization overviews from the KwaZulu-Natal Archives and Yale University Library.

Please contact co-chairs Sean Luyk and Jonathan Manton for more information about joining the Community of Practice.

Aviary Customers in the News

Through a Rainbow Lens wins the 2025 Albert B. Corey Award
United Lynn Pride’s Through a Rainbow Lens project was awarded the 2025 Albert B. Corey Award from the American Association for State and Local History. The Through a Rainbow Lens project documented, preserved, and shared LGBTQ+ stories from Lynn, Massachusetts using oral history interviews, transcripts, indexes, and archival materials. The project also presented a museum exhibit, virtual exhibits, and public talks to preserve Lynn's LGBTQ+ history and share these diverse stories with new audiences.

MARMIA digitized over 1,000 hours of Baltimore broadcasts
MARMIA has reached a major milestone — digitizing 1,036 hours of historic news broadcasts from WJZ-TV and documenting stories from Baltimore's underrepresented communities recorded between 1977-2000. Using tools like Aviary, ArchivesSpace, and automated transcription, the team streamlined its workflows to not only preserve this collection, but also to make it accessible, discoverable, and available for researchers, documentaries, and exhibits.

Unraveling the many-to-one archival arrangement dilemma at JMU
Archivists at JMU are taking on the “many-to-one” dilemma in AV arrangement and description — when one physical item holds multiple interviews or sessions — by creating smarter metadata models and layered arrangements. Using Aviary, ArchivesSpace, and Preservica together, they’ve found ways to keep physical items manageable while still making each recording discoverable.

Aviary at Archives*Records 2025 in Anaheim

It was wonderful to meet new colleagues and catch up with our amazing customers at Archives*Records 2025. We loved giving live demos, sharing Aviary swag, and showcasing our presentation, Aviary Integrations with External Systems: Expanding Your Digital Content Capabilities, in the Expo Hall.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth—your ideas and energy continue to inspire the growth of Aviary. 

Want to learn more about how Aviary can help you share and manage your audiovisual collections? Visit aviaryplatform.com or contact us at aviary@aviaryplatform.com. We’d love to hear from you!