Forum on sustainable preservation programs

ALCTS e-Forum

"Sustainable Preservation Programs"
Wednesday, April 22-23, 2015

Moderated by Whitney Baker, Melissa Tedone, and Peter D. Verheyen

Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It's free and open to
everyone.

Registration information is at the end of the message.

Each day, discussion begins and ends at:

    Pacific:    7 am -  3 pm
    Mountain:   8 am - 4 pm
    Central:    9 am -  5 pm
    Eastern:    10 am - 6pm

Sustainability is a term very much "en vogue" much like "archival"
is in marketing supplies. It can mean different things in different
contexts. For purposes of this e-forum, we are using it to discuss
the sustainability of preservation activities in the overall context
of libraries--administrative, staffing, funding, the changing role
of "library as place," and selection and use/reuse of materials and
other workflows.

Despite the clear need for preservation, its programmatic role
within the organization context is increasingly in a state of flux
as libraries reevaluate their organizational structures and with
preservation finding itself in what might be considered unlikely
reporting lines. Who will lead these programs, advocate for the
continued need for preservation, and demonstrate that the
preservation ethos has a role to play away from book and
environment? What about improving how we select and manage all the
materials we use in preservation and conservation? Below some
questions to start the conservation:

    How do you perceive the role of preservation within your
    institutions, and what changes have you observed?

    How have these changes impacted your work, and how do you see
    your role changing in the near term (5 years)?

    How are we recycling and reuse lab materials, and what workflow
    changes may go with this?

Please join our discussion of Sustainable Preservation Programs.
And, while doing so, ask your organization some of these same
questions in the context of Preservation Week, April 26 - May 2,
2015

    <URL:http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/preswk>

Check out the free webinars and other resources there.

Moderators

    Whitney Baker is Head of Conservation Services at the University
    of Kansas Libraries, where she has worked since 2002. Since 2004
    she has taught the preventive conservation class in the graduate
    program in Museum Studies at the University of Kansas. She holds
    an MLIS and Advanced Certificate in Library and Archives
    Conservation from the University of Texas at Austin. She
    previously worked as Conservation Librarian at the University of
    Kentucky and served her third-year internship at the Library of
    Congress, where she also worked as a conservation contractor.

    Melissa Tedone recently joined Winterthur Museum, Garden and
    Library as Library Conservator and Affiliated Faculty in the
    Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.
    She also serves as Co-Chair/Chair Elect of AIC's Sustainability
    Committee. Melissa holds an MSIS and Certificate of Advanced
    Study in Conservation of Library and Archival Materials from the
    University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD in Slavic Studies from
    Yale University. She has worked for the Connecticut-based
    sculpture conservation firm ConservArt LLC, and in the book and
    paper conservation labs of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
    Library, the Lewis Walpole Library, the University of Illinois
    at Urbana-Champaign, and Iowa State University Library.

    Peter D. Verheyen is past Head of Preservation and Conservation
    at Syracuse University Libraries. After beginning as a
    work-study in preservation under John Dean at Johns Hopkins, he
    studied binding and conservation in Germany and Switzerland to
    become a rare book conservator working in private practice and
    the research library preservation programs at Yale and Cornell.
    He established the conservation lab at Syracuse in 1995, has
    presented and written on a variety of preservation topics, and
    is co-instructor of ALA/ALCTS's Fundamentals of Preservation
    online course.

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Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee and the
Preservation Week Committee

Miriam Nelson
Head of Preservation, Ohio University Libraries
Hwa-Wei Lee Library Annex /Southeast Ohio Regional Depository
205 Columbus Road, Athens, OH 45701
740-593-0715


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