[Eril-l] ALCTS e-Forum: Sustainable Preservation Programs

[ALCTS-CE Announce]

*Apologies in advance for multiple postings.*

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. 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 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 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.

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 your email
address with the list, and then you will receive messages and communicate
with other participants through an email discussion. Most e-forums last two
to three days. Registration is necessary to participate, but it's free.

How to Register

You must register your email address to subscribe to or access an
electronic discussion list on ALA's Mailing List Service. Once you have
registered for one e-forum, you do not need to register again, unless you
choose to leave the list. Find instructions for subscribing and
unsubscribing online. (
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum/sympa)

If you have any problems, please contact alcts-eforum-request at ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.*
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