WESTPAS receives NEH grant for preservation training

WESTPAS receives an NEH grant for preservation training in 2011-2012

The Western States and Territories Preservation Assistance Service
(WESTPAS) has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the
Humanities to provide preservation training in 2011-2012. The grant
will support 31 FREE workshops on writing and testing plans for
disaster response and collection salvage to 600 staff from 300
smaller libraries and archives. See <URL:http://westpas.org> for
workshop locations and dates as they are posted.

WESTPAS is a partnership of 14 Western and Pacific states and
territories: Alaska, American Samoa, California, Colorado, Guam,
Hawai'i, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon,
Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Started in 2007 as a collaboration of
preservation professionals, WESTPAS is the major preservation
information, education, and training service for libraries and
archives in the West and the Pacific. To date, WESTPAS has helped
over 750 libraries and archives better protect their collections
through improvements to disaster preparedness and response.

    Barclay Ogden and Julie Page
    WESTPAS Co-coordinators
    info<-a t->westpas< . >org


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