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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Please
see below. Through its Collection Care Network, AIC is offering a special
session on preservation planning at its 41st Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
One-day registration is available at this link:</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A
href="http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=710">http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=710</A></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">Specialty
Sessions<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<H3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">Collection
Care<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H3>
<P><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Thursday, May
30</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN
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<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Preservation
Planning Discussion Session</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sponsored by Tru Vue</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">2:00
PM - 3:30 PM</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Part
1: The Rational-Comprehensive Planners versus The Incrementalists</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Introduction</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Joelle Wickens, Chair, Collection Care
Network; Associate Conservator, Preventive Team Head and Winterthur Assistant
Professor, Winterthur Museum/University of Delaware</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Overview
of CCN’s Collections Managers Survey Results</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Rebecca Fifield, Vice-Chair, Collection
Care Network; Collections Manager for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the
Americas, Metropolitan Museum of Art</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Measure
Risk, Then Plan Preservation</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Lisa Elkin, Director of Conservation,
American Museum of Natural History</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Establish
Guiding Principles, Then Manage through Incrementalism</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Katy Lithgow, Head Conservator, UK
National Trust</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Group
Discussions</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Moderated by Robert Waller, Protect
Heritage Corp. and Catharine Hawks, Conservator, NMNH Smithsonian
Institution</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Participants
will be asked to discuss, in small group format, the pros and cons, best
examples, hurdles and important caveats of the two approaches to preservation
planning as introduced by Elkin and Lithgow.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">3:30
PM - 4:00 PM</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Break</SPAN><SPAN
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<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">4:00
PM - 5:30 PM</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Part
2: Prescriptive Standards versus Performance Management</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Introduction
and Recap of Part 1</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Joelle Wickens, Chair, Collection Care
Network; Associate Conservator, Preventive Team Head and Winterthur Assistant
Professor, Winterthur Museum/University of Delaware</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Importance
of Standards and Guidelines to Inform Preventive Conservation Initiatives in
Museums</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Kristen Overbeck Laise, Vice President,
Collection Care Programs, Heritage Preservation</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Standards
Make Us Myopic: We Focus on Specific Values at the Expense of Real
Issues</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">James Reilly, Founder and Director,
Image Permanence Institute</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Group
Discussions</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: #3399cc; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Moderated by Robert Waller, Protect
Heritage Corp. and Catharine Hawks, Conservator, NMNH Smithsonian
Institution</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Participants
will discuss the two approaches as introduced by Laise and
Reilly.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Session
Wrap-up</SPAN><SPAN
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<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Note:
The Collection Care Network (CCN) is AIC’s newest network, established in
January 2012. Its members bring together the preservation knowledge and skills
of AIC members and link these with institutions seeking best practices for
preservation. The CCN is both a reference source and a forum in support of the
preservation work of conservators and other Collection Care
practitioners.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Cathy</SPAN></P>
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