Conference on measurement of 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 these goals are communicated, and whether
we have the evidence and metrics to effectively assess progress
towards them.

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:

    10.00               Welcome and introductions
                        Caroline Peach
                        Head of Preservation Advisory Centre

    10.15               Collection Care in a new environment of
                        cultural policy
                        Samuel Jones

                        Demos

    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               Changing times: changing strategies
                        Chair: Alison Richmond
                        Chief Executive
                        Icon the Institute of Conservation

                        Examples from a number of organisations of
                        how they have adapted 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
                            British Library

                            Gordon Cummings
                            Fry Art Gallery and Association of
                            Independent Museums

                            Simon Cane
                            Head of Museum Operations
                            Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

    14.45                   Break

    15.00                   Challenging collection care

                            Chair: Lara Artemis
                            Collection Care Manager
                            Parliamentary Archives)

                            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
                        Caroline Peach
                        Head of Preservation Advisory Centre

    16.30               Close

For full programme and booking details please see:

    <URL:http://www.bl.uk/blpac/impact.html>

We will be using the Twitter hashtag #impactconf

Caroline Peach
Head of Preservation Advisory Centre
The British Library


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