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Registration Open For Free, Online
Collections Care Courses
Heritage Preservation is proud to
announce Caring for Yesterday’s
Treasures—Today, a new series of free, online courses about
the preservation of archival and historical collections. Tailored to meet
the needs and schedules of staff and volunteers at libraries and
archives, each course includes four to six 90-minute, interactive
webinars presented by preservation experts.
Libraries and archives shoulder an immense responsibility to protect and
preserve America’s treasures. According to A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report
on the State of America’s Collections, libraries hold
63%—or about 3 billion—of the 4.8 billion collection items in the United
States. Archives hold another 360 million artifacts. The survey also
revealed:
- 78%
of libraries and 70% of archives have no emergency plan to protect
collections with staff trained to carry it out.
- Almost
half of public libraries with rare or archival collections have no
staff assigned to preservation tasks.
- Archives
and libraries have significant photograph and audio-visual
collections and, increasingly, digital materials.
- Tuition
and travel costs can be an obstacle for professional development.
The courses for Caring for Yesterday’s
Treasures—Today will address these issues and more.
Participants are encouraged to submit specific questions about
collections care to ensure that the courses are directly relevant to
their needs.
The series will be conducted via the Connecting to Collections Online Community. Each course will have
its own Web page with handouts and links to additional resources. When
each course concludes, participants will be able to continue the
conversation with instructors and classmates via the Connecting to Collections Online
Community.
Click here to register.
Participants will earn a certificate of completion if they attend all the
webinars in a course and submit simple homework assignments. Although
registration is free of charge, to enable participants to adjust their
work schedules and to indicate an institutional commitment to improve
collections care, we ask that participants submit a permission form
signed by their supervisor to attend these courses.
Course Schedule:
Collections Care Basics:
Where Do I Begin? – January 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, and 23, 2013
(all webinars at 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Eastern)
Risk Evaluation: First Step
in Disaster Planning – February 5, 7, 12, and 14, 2013 (all
webinars at 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Eastern)
Protecting Your Collections:
Writing a Disaster Response Plan – March 5, 7, 12, and 14,
2013 (all webinars at 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Eastern)
Caring for Digital Materials:
Preventing a Digital Dark Age – five 90-minute webinars in April
2013 (dates and times TBA)
Caring for Photographic
Materials – five 90-minute webinars in May 2013 (dates and
times TBA)
Courses on caring for audiovisual materials, fundraising for collections
care, and outreach activities for collections care are planned for fall
2013.
Caring for
Yesterday’s Treasures—Today is made possible through an Institute of Museum and
Library Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Continuing
Education grant to Heritage Preservation. The website and webinars are
produced by LearningTimes.
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Heritage Preservation: Registration Open For Free, Online Collections Care Courses
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