*Preparing, Protecting, Preserving* your Family Treasures is a new
website sponsored by ALA Carnegie-Whitney Award and the Library of
Congress Preservation Directorate at
http://www.loc.gov/preserv/familytreasures/index.html
This website provides simple instructions, as well as links to more
comprehensive information for *Preparing, Protecting, Preserving*
many types of family treasures. Using this information, you will have
the means to prepare ahead of time, to protect everyday, and if need be
to preserve your family treasures after a disaster. Proper care,
handling and storage of your treasures will help to ensure that they are
available for generations to come. No one likes to think about
disasters, whether natural or man made, but thinking ahead and
preparing, together with knowledge about first steps, can save those
family treasures from ruin.
Please feel free to link to the site. Video clips will be added soon.
Jeanne
Jeanne Drewes
Chief, Binding & Collections Care
Library of Congress
jdre@xxxxxxx
202 707 5330