ALCTS e-Forum: Sustainable Preservation Programs
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ALCTS e-Forum: Sustainable Preservation Programs
Wednesday, April 22 and Thursday, April 23, 2015
Moderated by Whitney Baker, Melissa Tedone, and Peter D. Verheyen
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. Its free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, discussion begins and ends at:
Pacific: 7 a.m. 3 p.m.
Mountain: 8 a.m. 4 p.m.
Central: 9 a.m. 5 p.m.
Eastern: 10 a.m. 6 p.m.
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,
<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 & 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 AICs 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 workstudy 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/ALCTSs
Fundamentals of Preservation online course.
What Is an e-Forum?
An ALCTS e-forum provides an opportunity for librarians to discuss
matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion
list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register
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