[PADG:1391] Re: new website

[Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa <e.cunnk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops.  My apologies for clogging your e-mail inboxes.  Ellen


> *Preparing, Protecting, Preserving* your Family Treasures is a new
> website sponsored by ALA Carnegie-Whitney Award and the Library of
> Congress Preservation Directorate at
> http://www.loc.gov/preserv/familytreasures/index.html 
> This website provides simple instructions, as well as links to more
> comprehensive information for *Preparing, Protecting, Preserving*
> many types of family treasures. Using this information, you will have
> the means to prepare ahead of time, to protect everyday, and if need be
> to preserve your family treasures after a disaster. Proper care,
> handling and storage of your treasures will help to ensure that they are
> available for generations to come. No one likes to think about
> disasters, whether natural or man made, but thinking ahead and
> preparing, together with knowledge about first steps, can save those
> family treasures from ruin.
>
> Please feel free to link to the site.  Video clips will be added soon.
>
> Jeanne
>
>
>
> Jeanne Drewes
> Chief, Binding & Collections Care
> Library of Congress
> jdre@xxxxxxx
> 202 707 5330


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Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa
Director
The Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record
School of Information
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station D7000
Austin TX 78712-0390
Phone: 512.471.8287
FAX: 512.471.8285
E-mail: e.cunnk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx