[NHCOLL-L:4310] Fwd: Heritage Preservation Update Spring 2009

Wed Apr 29 15:36:48 EDT 2009

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Program Updates

Rescue Public Murals

Heritage Emergency National Task Force

Save Outdoor Sculpture!

Conservation Assessment Program

Notes and News

Connecting to Collections: The National Tour

Grants Roundup

Awards

Join Us on Facebook!

Upcoming Conference on "Sustainable Cultural Heritage"

What Are You Doing for MayDay? Tell Us and You Could Win a Prize!
Libraries, museums, archives, and arts and historic preservation organizations across the nation are setting aside
May 1, 2009, to participate in MayDay, a national effort to prepare for disasters. To enter the prize drawing, click here and send us a short description (by May 22) of what youre doing for MayDay 2009. To read more click here.

Connecting to Collections: The National Tour  

Stewardship of Americas Legacy: Answering the Call to Action Program Information Announced

"Stewardship of Americas Legacy: Answering the Call to Action," a forum in the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Connecting to Collections series, will take place on June 16 and 17 in Buffalo, New York. This forum will bring together front-line leaders in the movement to save Americas collections for future generations. To read more click here.

We
bcast Now Available for Living Collections Forum

Its Alive! Petals to Primates: Preservation Challenges of Living Collections was the third in the series of IMLS forums in the Connecting to Collections National Tour. It was organized in partnership with Heritage Preservation and the San Diego Zoo. Click here to go to the webcast Web page. To read more click here.

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Heritage Emergency National Task Force 

Visit our Online Resources

In November 2008, Heritage Preservation brought together leaders from past and future Alliance for Response Forums, emergency professionals, and funding agencies to celebrate the success of the initiative and share program strategies. Now the highlights of the day-long discussion have been distilled in a one-hour audio presentation that can be accessed online or downloaded to an iPod, MP3 player, or other portable listening device. To read more click here.

Heritage Preservation’s Heritage Emergency National Task Force Web pages have been revamped. To read more click here.

Heritage Preservation’s award-winning, essential disaster resources – the Emergency Response and Salvage Wheel and Field Guide to Emergency Response – are on sale in the Bookstore from April 15 through May 31 in celebration of MayDay 2009. To read more click here.

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Resue Public Murals  

Rescue Public Murals Partners with ARTstor to Document Community Murals 

Heritage Preservation is pleased to announce that it has partnered with ARTstor to add 1,500 mural 
images to their Digital Library this year. Heritage Preservation will contribute approximately 300 images of community murals collected as part of the Rescue Public Murals assessments. To read more click here.

Planning for Mural Restoration Underway

Planning is underway for the restoration of Homage to Seurat: La Grande Jatte in Harlem by the late Eva Cockcroft. The mural is on the side of an apartment building that faces an active community garden in New York City. To read more click here. 

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Save Outdoor Sculpture! 

Heritage Preservation Coordinating Assessments of Historic Monuments for Department of Veterans Affairs

The National Cemetery Administration (NCA) of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has contracted with Heritage Preservation to assess the condition of approximately 200 memorials in VA cemeteries. Located from Augusta, Maine to San Diego, California, these monuments include simple markers, obelisks, and elaborate figures. To read more click here.

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Grants Roundup 

The National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions Deadline: May 14, 2009

Save America's Treasures Deadline: May 22, 2009

National Endowment for the Humanities – Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant Deadline: Deadline: July 15, 2009

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Awards 

Nominations Solicited for the CAA-Heritage Preservation Joint Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation. To read more click here.

Ann Russell is the winner of the LBI George
 Cunha and Susan Swartzburg Preservation Award! To read more click here.

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The Conservation Assessment Program 

Sign up for the CAPabilities Newsletter

CAPabilities is the Conservation Assessment Program’s (CAP) biannual newsletter sent to all past and present CAP museums, assessors, and Heritage Preservation members.
Click here to sign up for CAPabilites newletter. To read more click here.

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Become a Fan of Heritage Preservation on Facebook!

Heritage Preservation is now on Faceboook! Click here to join.

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Upcoming Conference on "Sustainable Cultural Heritage"
A conference on "Sustainable Cultural Heritage" will be held on May 11, 2009, 9:00am to 4:45pm, in Room M-09 of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in the Old Post Office Pavilion at 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.  No registration is required for this free conference. To read more click here. 

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