Collection Care Network

Whether preventive care tasks are a core or peripheral
responsibility in your particular job, they have a profound effect
on collections and overall preservation. Members of the American
Institute for Conservation are proposing the creation of Collection
Care Network. This new AIC Network would recognize the critical
importance of preventive conservation as the most effective means of
promoting the long-term preservation of cultural property. It would
do so by:

    Providing resources to support collections care and conservation
    staff

    Creating awareness of preventive care

    Identifying and developing standards and best practices,

    Training, and other projects to advance preventive care in
    institutions of all types and sizes, locally, nationally and
    globally

    Working with related groups to reach and support key collections
    care constituents

Preventive care activities often transcend materials and
institutional type and offer an excellent way to bring together
people who work in varied ways with collections (i.e. collection
managers, registrars, conservators, mountmakers, designers,
technicians, etc.). If you are interested in supporting the creation
of a Collections Care Network or have thoughts on what you would
like such a group to do, we hope that you will take a look at the
full proposal outlining the Goals, Rationale, Anticipated Groups to
be Served, and Ideas for Future Projects. The proposal can be viewed
on the AIC Blog at

  <URL:http://www.conservators-converse.org/2011/09/ccn-proposal/>

If you would like to support the proposal you may do so by
submitting your name and any affiliation in the comments field below
the Blog post. Alternatively you may email
rachaelWhich is found in this domain_amartconservation@com. Please put CCN proposal in your
subject line.

Rachael Perkins Arenstein
A.M. Art Conservation, LLC
Art Conservation, Preservation and Collection Management
917-796-1764


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