Library of Congress Topics in Preservation Series (TOPS)

The Preservation Directorate of the Library of Congress announces
the 58th presentation in the Topics in Preservation Series (TOPS):

"The Marriage of Preservation and Access"
Nadina Gardner
Director of the Division of Preservation and Access, National
Endowment for the Humanities

Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20540

Thursday, April 14, 2011 (please see schedule note below)

10:30-11:00 am
West Dining Room, Madison Building, 6th floor
(Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at
202-707-6362 or ADA<-a t->loc< . >gov)

and also via Live Webcast worldwide (to participate via live
webcast, send an email at least 3 days in advance to Angela Burgess,
abur<-a t->loc< . >gov

Nadina Gardner, Director of the Division of Preservation and Access
at the National Endowment for the Humanities, will explore the close
alliance between preservation of cultural heritage collections and
the provision of access to them, with particular reference to the
ways in which the grant programs of the Division of Preservation and
Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities exemplify that
alliance. The results of a recent strategic planning effort, which
included attention both to physical preservation and to preservation
of the digital cultural record, will be presented and shown to have
led to changes and additions that strengthen the bond between
preservation and access in the division's programs.

Nadina Gardner is the Director of the Division of Preservation and
Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Earlier, she
was a senior program officer in the division and, at the beginning
of her career, was a program officer in the Division of Research
Programs, working primarily in collaborative research.  She was the
Assistant Director for Libraries and Archives with Heritage
Preservation, where she worked on the Heritage Health Index, and was
the Assistant to the Director of The Research Libraries of The New
York Public Library, where she coordinated long-range planning in
the four research libraries and was a member of the Research
Libraries Management Team.  She holds an A.B. magna cum laude in
English and American literature from Harvard University and a Ph.D.
in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

Note: If there is a Government shutdown and even if it ends before
April 14, 2011, the Library of Congress may not be able to present
this lecture. For status updates, starting Friday, April 8, 2011
please call 202-707-8345.

The Topics in Preservation Series lectures are free and open to the
public.  For further details and updated information about the
series, please visit

    <URL:http://www.loc.gov/preserv/tops/schedule.html>

Dianne van der Reyden
Director for Preservation
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. SE
Washington, DC 20540-4500
202-707-8345


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