[Eril-l] Free Preservation Week Core webinar: There When You Need Us: Crisis Collecting Support

Tue Apr 11 05:00:00 PDT 2023

*Cross posted to multiple lists*

Free Preservation Week Core webinar: There When You Need Us: Crisis
Collecting Support

Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2023

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.

Description:

Cultural heritage institutions must respond quickly during crises while
contending with conditions impacting their lives and work. The Society of
American Archivists’ Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working Group
provides support and connection for empathetic, ethical, and sustainable
collecting practices. This webinar will introduce attendees to resources
available through the working group as well as what they can do to prepare
for collecting during and after both natural disasters or human-made
tragedies.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this webinar, the attendees will leave with general overview
of:

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   how to stage rapid response collecting.
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   who to go to with questions about documenting in times of crisis.

Who should attend?

Cultural heritage professionals and community members who may be
responsible for collecting or documenting a disaster or tragedy.

Presenters:

Vanessa St.Oegger-Menn is the Pan Am 103 Archivist and Assistant University
Archivist at the Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections
Research Center in Syracuse, New York. She holds an MA in 20th-Century
British Literature from California State University Long Beach and earned
her MSLIS from the iSchool at Syracuse University. Vanessa served on SAA’s
Tragedy Response Initiative Task Force and is currently co-chair of the
Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working Group. In addition to her
archival work, she is one of the primary advisors to the Remembrance and
Lockerbie Scholars program at Syracuse and a member of the Advisory Board
of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc.

Kara M. McClurken is the Director of Preservation Services at University of
Virginia Library and oversees all activities related to physical and
digital preservation. She served on SAA’s Tragedy Response Initiative Task
Force and is currently co-chair of the Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy
Response Working Group. She also serves on the Advisory Committee for the
Academic Preservation Trust and is a past chair of the Preservation Section
of the Society of American Archivists and the past chair of the
Preservation and Reformatting Section of the American Library Association.
Prior to UVA, Kara served as Preservation Field Services Librarian for the
Southeastern Library Network and worked in the Sophia Smith Collection at
Smith College as a project archivist and preservation specialist. Kara has
an M.L.S. with a concentration in Archives and Preservation, an M.A. in
history from the University of Maryland where she worked in both Special
Collections and the Preservation Department, and her A.B. from Kenyon
College in Gambier, Ohio.

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Registration fees for webinar:  Free

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://preservationweek.org/free-webinars/there-when-you-need-us/

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

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

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