[Eril-l] Preservation Week Webinar: Seen, Not Saved: Preservation as an Act of Resilience, Resistance and Visibility (Free)

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Preservation Week Webinar: Seen, Not Saved: Preservation as an Act of
Resilience, Resistance and Visibility (Free)

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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



Description: Honorary Chair of Preservation Week, Tamar
Evangelestia-Dougherty in conversation with Sherry Williams.

Who should attend?

For a general audience. This is geared toward the theme of preservation
week: Is This Thing On?: Preserving Memory and Building Archives.

Presenters:

Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty is an American librarian, curator, educator
and cultural heritage administrator. She most recently was appointed as
Deputy Commissioner of Visual Arts for the City of Chicago in 2024 and is
the former director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives in
Washington, DC. With extensive experience across academic, public and
museum library sectors Evangelestia-Dougherty previously served as
Associate University Librarian for Rare and Distinctive Collections at
Cornell University, Director of Collections and Services at the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture at New York Public Library, and
Executive Director of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium at the
University of Chicago. A respected leader in the library and museum
community, Evangelestia-Dougherty concurrently teaches cultural heritage
administration at California Rare Book School at the University of
California Los Angeles and serves as a member of the American Antiquarian
Society and the Caxton Club.

Evanglestia-Dougherty holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science from
Simmons University, where she studied archives, collective memory and
historic and cultural documentation and preservation. For
Evangelestia-Dougherty’s distinguished service and contributions to the
profession, she received an honorary doctorate of library and information
science from Simmons University in 2023.

In addition to cultural heritage work, writing and teaching,
Evanglestia-Dougherty has served as a consultant to libraries, museums, and
educational centers. She has presented and consulted on collaborative
cultural heritage projects including the IMLS funded Diversifying the
Digital Historical Record (2017), keynote speaker for Digital Preservation
Coalition (2024), serving on the Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
board of directors (2022-2024) and most recently contributed to the Morgan
Library and Museum publication: Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy
(2024) and the Andrew W. Mellon funded Chicago Monuments Project for the
City of Chicago.

Evangelestia-Dougherty’s professional ethos aims to embed holistic advocacy
for libraries and museums into civic culture through preserving,
interpreting, and making natural and cultural heritage accessible thus
activating common narratives of purpose for research in a global context.

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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/evangelestia-dougherty-webinar/

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.

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