Connecting to Collections (C2C) meetings on Preservation
July 28th, 2010
Connecting to Collections (C2C) held two meetings in Eugene and Portland to determine pressing preservation needs for Oregon collections. Meetings in Bend, Medford and Pendleton are scheduled for the fall. Funding for the meetings has been generously provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and allocated through the Oregon Museum Association. Please stay tuned for more information on the outcome of the meetings.
For more information, check the Oregon Museum Associations website through the link below.
Arrival of book, Issues in the Conservation of Photographs
July 28th, 2010
The long awaited release of Issues in the Conservation of Photographs has arrived! Order your copy today!
Edited by Debra Hess Norris and Jennifer Jae Gutierrez
Getty Conservation Institute
752 pages, 7 x 10 inches
36 color and 55 b/w illustrations, 111 line drawings
ISBN 978-1-60606-000-1
paper, $70.00
Vote today for the Seattle-Puget Sound Initiative
April 20th, 2010
Support your local historic places by casting your vote today for 25 historic preservation projects. See the posting below:
The Seattle-Puget Sound Partners in Preservation Initiative!
Help American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation give away $1 million in preservation grants to Seattle-Puget Sound area historic places.
From April 15 – May 12, vote here for the places you would like to see receive preservation funding. Each person can vote once daily for any of the 25 historic places. The winner of the public vote is guaranteed to receive a grant, so your votes really do count!
Vote at:
Save America’s Treasures!
February 18th, 2010
Contact your congressman immediately to advocate for preservation! Last week, President Obama released his 2011 budget that would eliminate funding for Save America’s Treasures (SAT) and Preserve America (PA), and cut funding for National Heritage Areas by 50%. Without this funding conservation jobs will be drastically reduced and will thus lead to the deterioration of our cultural heritage. I had the opportunity to work on a Save America’s Treasures grant at the Center for Creative Photography and would hate to see this program disappear. Save America’s Treasures alone has been responsible for more than 16,000 jobs and the preservation of numerous collections since it was created just ten years ago.
You can contact your congressman directly or fill out an online request through the National Trust for Historic Preservation website.
The Graphics Atlas: A resource for print identification
February 3rd, 2010
“Graphics Atlas is a new online resource that brings sophisticated print identification and characteristic exploration tools to archivists, curators, historians, collectors, conservators, educators, and the general public. The Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology began initial development of this resource in 2006.”
Link below:
Information on Preserving Audio Visual Media
February 1st, 2010
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) released a series of videos, A Race Against Time: Preserving AV Media, that are worth a look. The videos are well done and discuss the many facets of preserving these collections.
follow the link below:
The National Park Service on Cold Storage
February 1st, 2010
The National Park Service released information on cold storage in collections. It is worth a read and a viewing of the videos.
Follow the link below:
http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/coldstorage/html/intro1_1.html
After going to the link, the videos are located via a flash player at the bottom right of the screen.