Conference on collection care

"Impact: redefining the measurement of collection care"
Preservation Advisory Centre conference

British Library Conference Centre
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB, United Kingdom
15 February 2011

Digitisation, digital collecting, rising energy costs and the
changed economic climate have prompted many organisations to
re-think their approach to collection care. This one-day conference
questions what we seek to achieve from collection care activities
now and in the future, how we communicate our goals, and whether we
have the evidence and metrics to effectively support the arguments
we make.

Are you re-thinking your approach to collection care? We invite you
to shape the debate. Following presentations on the context for
collection care, the role of evidence, an overview of the impact of
preservation management in libraries and examples of methodologies
in practice, the afternoon features round table discussion sessions
on two themes.

Programme:

    09.45                       Registration

    10.00                       Welcome and introduction
                                Caroline Peach, Head of Preservation
                                Advisory Centre

    10.15                       Culture Shock
                                Samuel Jones
                                Demos/DCMS Policy Fellow

    10.45                       Measurement and using evidence
                                Claire Creaser
                                Director, LISU

    11.30                       Preservation management in
                                libraries--impact?
                                Graham Matthews
                                Professor of Information Management,
                                Loughborough University

    12.00                       Assessing conservation state in the
                                National Trust
                                Katy Lithgow
                                Head Conservator, National Trust

    12.30                       Lunch

    13.15                       Round table discussion session:
                                Changing times: changing strategies

                                Examples from a number of
                                organisations of how they are
                                adapting their collection care
                                strategies.

                                    Nancy Bell
                                    Head of Collection Care, The
                                    National Archives

                                    Caroline Checkley-Scott
                                    Head of Collection Care, John
                                    Rylands Library University of
                                    Manchester

                                    Cordelia Rogerson
                                    Head of Conservation, the
                                    British Library

    15.00                       Round table discussion
                                session--Challenging collection care

                                Perspectives on what collection care
                                should be delivering and how this is
                                most effectively communicated.

                                    Maurice Davies
                                    Head of Policy and
                                    Communication, Museums
                                    Association

                                    Mike Mertens
                                    Deputy Executive Director and
                                    Data Services Manager, Research
                                    Libraries UK

                                    Nick Poole
                                    Chief Executive, Collections
                                    Trust

                                    Fiona Talbott
                                    Head of Museums Libraries and
                                    Archives, Heritage Lottery Fund

                                    Amber Xavier-Rowe
                                    Head of Collections
                                    Conservation, English Heritage

    16.15                       The way forward: wrap up and close
                                 Caroline Peach
                                Head of Preservation Advisory Centre

For full programme and booking details please see:
<URL:http://www.bl.uk/blpac/impact.html>

Conference fee:

    UKP110 (GBP)+ VAT for bookings received by 15 January 2011
    UKP130 (GBP) + VAT for bookings received after 15 January 2011

Caroline Peach
Head of Preservation Advisory Centre
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
United Kingdom


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