Lecture on emergency management for cultural heritage

Emergency Management since the Florence Flood:  Federal Programs and
National Initiatives

Andrew Robb
Head of Special Format Conservation Section
Conservation Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building (3rd floor)
Pickford Theater
101 Independence Ave SE
Washington DC 20540
Thursday, April 28, 2016
11am - 12 noon

To register for the webcast, visit:

    <URL:https://www.loc.gov/preservation/outreach/tops/robb/index.html>

This lecture will lead into the General Session lecture, "Emergency
Management Since the Florence Flood - the Crooked Timber of
Progress," at AIC's 44th Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada.

The state of preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation
resources related to the emergency management of cultural materials
has improved significantly since the Florence Flood of 1966.  There
have been many noteworthy accomplishments over the past fifty years
on the national and Federal level.  In the United States Federal
emergency plans now include cultural resources and a variety of
national organizational structures such as the Heritage Emergency
National Task Force, the National Heritage Responders (formerly
AIC-CERT), the Alliance for Response, and WESTPAS now exist to
harness the experience and knowledge we have fifty years after
Florence.  The presentation will include case studies of recent
disasters to demonstrate how cultural resources are integrated into
the broader national and Federal emergency management process.

Mary Oey
Conservation Division
Library of Congress


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