NARA Preservation Conference--addendum

"Conservation2 = Preserving Our Collections x Our Environment"
Marriott Inn and Conference Center at University of Maryland
University College
Hyattsville, MD
March 16-17, 2011

Standard Registration: $285.
Full-time Student Registration: $195.

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We live in an exciting and challenging time of transition,
transformation and global, national and professional change!
Successful long term preservation and availability of archival,
library and museum collections requires meeting the challenges of
global climate and economic changes and the need for creative and
sustainable solutions.

The National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) 25th
Preservation Conference Conservation2 will provide a venue for
expert practitioners, advocates for preservation, the environment
and allied professions to present and discuss these changes,
collaborative opportunities and options for the future.

Program speakers include scientists, preservation, architecture and
engineering professionals, administrators and facility managers; all
advocates and thinkers in preserving our collections and our
environment.  The conference draws participants from diverse fields
including administrators of archives, historical collections,
libraries and museums; architects, facilities managers and
engineers: archivists, curators and librarians; collections care and
preservation managers, and conservators and preservation specialists
and students in all these areas.  The program is available at
<URL:http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conferences/2011/> NARA's
25th Annual Preservation Conference Conservation2 will explore:

    How climate and economic changes will shift preservation
    strategies

    How we are taking advantage of research evidence to identify
    environmental options for collection materials that are
    responsive to local climate and weather patterns

    Results of research carried out in the UK by The National
    Archives on how the environment impacts collection materials and
    new thinking about environmental control and preservation
    methodologies as research and evidence results are analyzed

    How the National Archives in College Park, MD (Winner of the
    2010 Presidential "Lean, Clean and Green" Award) accomplished
    significant energy reductions without major renovation

    How to most effectively operate and use environmental control
    systems in the context of energy use

    The importance of developing relationships with allied
    professionals and how to communicate in a time of changing
    regulations and standards

    Advances in lighting and the impact of new technologies on
    exhibition and energy costs

    Possible sources of supporting the conversion to sustainable
    preservation environments

The two-day program will provide opportunities for discussion and
networking during the program, at the reception after the first
day's program and at breaks and lunches. Our intent, as always, is
to build a community and network that shares information
enthusiastically, questions and provides answers for each other, and
for attendees to participate in this network and community long
after the conference is over.

Program Schedule [Provisional]
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

    8-9am           Registration/Continental Breakfast
    9-9:15          Welcome Remarks

                    David S. Ferriero
                    Archivist of the United States

    9:15-10:30      Our Collections and the Environment:Footprints
                    and Records

                        Dr. Michael J. Kurtz
                        Assistant Archivist (Retired), Office of
                        Records Services, NARA, Washington, DC and
                        Professor, School of Information Sciences,
                        University of Maryland, College Park, MD

                        Dr. Steven P. Hamburg
                        Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund

    10:30-11        Exhibitors, Resources and Coffee

    11-12:30pm      Establishing What Collections Need

                        Nancy Bell
                        Head of Collections Care, The National
                        Archives, UK

                        Jerry Podany
                        Conservator at the Getty Museum and
                        President of the International Institute for
                        Conservation

    12:30-1:30          Lunch in the Inn and Conference Center, UMUC
                        (Everyone)

    1:30-3              Evidence for Decision-Making

                            James Reilly
                            Director, Image Permanence Institute

                            National Endowment for the Humanities
                            and Heritage Health Index (Speaker TBC)

    3-3:30              Exhibitors, Resources and Coffee

    3:30-5              Collaborating to Gather Evidence

                            Naomi Miller
                            Senior Lighting Engineer, Pacific
                            Northwest National Lab
                            and
                            Jim Druzik
                            Physical Scientist
                            Getty Conservation Institute

                            Dr. Jennifer Herrmann
                            Chemist
                            and
                            Mark Ormsby
                            Physicist, NARA

    5-6pm                   Reception in the Exhibitors Lobby area

Thursday, March 17, 2011

    8:30-9am            Continental Breakfast
    9-10:30             Meeting Sustainability Challenges: Mapping
                        Strategies

                                Michael C. Henry
                                Watson and Henry Associates and
                                Adjunct Professor of Architecture,
                                University of Pennsylvania

                                Dr. Shin Maekawa
                                Sr. Scientist, Getty Conservation
                                Institute

    10:30-11            Exhibitors, Resources and Coffee

    11-12:30pm          Success in Building and Retrofitting for
                        Sustainability

                            Suzanne Hargrove
                            Head of Conservation, Toledo Museum of
                            Art

                            Mark Sprouse
                            Director, Facilities and Property
                            Management, NARA

    12:30-1:30          Lunch in the Inn and Conference Center, UMUC
                        (Everyone)

    1:30-3              Optimizing Systems and Operations

                            Peter Herzog
                            Principal, Herzog/Wheeler and Associates

                            Nancy Lev-Alexander
                            Head, Preventive Conservation, Library
                            of Congress

    3-3:30              Exhibitors, Resources and Coffee

    3:30-5pm            Challenges Ahead for Conservation2

                           (Speaker TBC)

                           Rob Hummel
                           President, 47, LLC

                    Conclusion

The conference website is
<URL:http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conferences/2011/>

It is here that you will also find a downloadable PDF registration
form that you can fill in and send to me. You will also find a PDF
that serves as the conference "flyer" that can be printed and
displayed if you wish.

If you have any questions, please call me directly at 301-837-3617
or email richard.schneider<-a t->nara< . >gov

Richard Schneider
Preservation Conference Coordinator


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