[NHCOLL-L:5659]Creation of an Collection Care Network - lend your support

[Rachael Perkins Arenstein]

Whether preventive care tasks are a core or peripheral responsibility in
your particular job, they have a profound effect on collections and overall
preservation. Members of the American Institute for Conservation are
proposing the creation of Collection Care Network. This new AIC Network
would recognize the critical importance of preventive conservation as the
most effective means of promoting the long-term preservation of cultural
property. It would do so by:

.         providing resources to support collections care and conservation
staff

.         creating awareness of preventive care  

.         identifying and developing standards and best practices, 

.         training, and other projects to advance preventive care in
institutions of all types and sizes, locally, nationally and globally  

.         working with related groups to reach and support key collections
care constituents  

Preventive care activities often transcend materials and institutional type
and offer an excellent way to bring together people who work in varied ways
with collections (i.e. collection managers, registrars, conservators,
mountmakers, designers, technicians, etc.). If you are interested in
supporting the creation of a Collections Care Network or have thoughts on
what you would like such a group to do, we hope that you will take a look at
the full proposal outlining the Goals, Rationale, Anticipated Groups to be
Served, and Ideas for Future Projects. The proposal can be viewed on the AIC
Blog at http://www.conservators-converse.org/2011/09/ccn-proposal/ 

If you would like to support the proposal you may do so by commenting on the
Blog below the post by submitting your name and any affiliation.
Alternatively you may email me at rachael at amartconservation dot com.
Please put CCN proposal in your subject line.

 

 

Rachael Perkins Arenstein

A.M. Art Conservation, LLC

Art Conservation, Preservation & Collection Management

rachael at AMArtConservation.com

www.AMArtConservation.com

917-796-1764

 

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