[PADG:663] ARLIS conference

[jeanann croft <jeanann+@xxxxxxxx>]

PADG,

A colleague asked me to forward this information along.  ARLIS is 
looking for a speaker to participate in the annual conference.  If you 
are interested, please see message below.  Thanks!  Jean Ann

Jean Ann Croft
Preservation Librarian
University of Pittsburgh
412-244-7522
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Forwarded on behalf of Jane Devine Mejia.  Please send comments, 
inquiries, etc. to her.  –ARLIS-L Moderator

Dear colleagues:

I am putting together a panel on current approaches to preservation of 
art and architecture collections for next year's Banff conference. The 
working description is as follows:

Planning for posterity: the preservation of art and architecture materials

This panel will focus on a critical issue for all art and architecture 
librarians: how to best preserve our collections. This topic has not 
been explored at an ARLIS/NA annual conference in at least the past 
seven years; yet it is a pressing concern for all members, whether in 
museums, art schools or academic libraries. Art and architecture 
collections present particular preservation challenges because of their 
range of physical formats and dimensions (print, microform, digital and 
multimedia, rare materials, unique artists' books, photographs, 
drawings, vertical files, etc.) and their chronological breadth, from 
early printed books to recent publications. Tne three speakers will 
explore such themes as:

(1) conducting preservation assessments and surveys of art/architecture 
collections,
(2) where and how to seek expertise in-house or through consultants and 
outsourcing,
(3) the services and resources offered by the Canadian Conservation 
Institute and
(4) best practices for planning and managing preservation, based on a 
library case study.

I already have speakers from the Canadian Conservation Institute and 
another preservation agency, but am now seeking a third speaker to 
address point no. 4.

 This would be a librarian who has recently implemented a preservation 
program in their institution and is interested in giving a 20-minute 
presentation describing your collection, what you did, what types of 
resources you used (external consultants, grant funding, in-house 
expertise, etc.) and what can be learned from your experience. If you 
have renovated your facility or built a new building incorporating 
current preservation technology, that would also be of interest.

Please contact me off the list by September 26 if you are interested in 
joining the panel.

Many thanks,
Jane Devine Mejia

Panel Moderator &
Vice-Chair, ARLIS/Northwest Chapter