Free Webinars Highlight Preservation Week 2014, April 28 – May 2

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2014-03-12 10:43

During Preservation Week, libraries all over the country present events, activities, and resources that highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our personal and shared collections. To celebrate Preservation Week 2014, Amigos will be offering free one-hour webinars April 28 through May 2, 2014.

Preservation Week was created in 2010 because some 630 million items in collecting institutions require immediate attention and care. Eighty percent of these institutions have no paid staff assigned responsibility for collections care; 22 percent have no collections care personnel at all. Some 2.6 billion items are not protected by an emergency plan. As natural disasters of recent years have taught us, these resources are in jeopardy should a disaster strike. Personal, family, and community collections are equally at risk.

Preservation Week @ Your Library is an initiative of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association.

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