[Nhcoll-l] Collections Care/Preservation Planning Session at AIC

[CAHawks at aol.com]

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: 
_http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=71
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(http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=710)  
Specialty  Sessions
 
Collection  Care
Thursday, May  30 
Preservation  Planning Discussion Session
Sponsored by Tru Vue 
2:00  PM - 3:30 PM
Part  1: The Rational-Comprehensive Planners versus The Incrementalists 
Introduction
Joelle Wickens, Chair, Collection Care  Network; Associate Conservator, 
Preventive Team Head and Winterthur Assistant  Professor, Winterthur 
Museum/University of Delaware 
Overview  of CCN’s Collections Managers Survey Results
Rebecca Fifield, Vice-Chair, Collection  Care Network; Collections Manager 
for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the  Americas, Metropolitan Museum of 
Art 
Measure  Risk, Then Plan Preservation
Lisa Elkin, Director of Conservation,  American Museum of Natural History 
Establish  Guiding Principles, Then Manage through Incrementalism
Katy Lithgow, Head Conservator, UK  National Trust 
Group  Discussions
Moderated by Robert Waller, Protect  Heritage Corp. and Catharine Hawks, 
Conservator, NMNH Smithsonian  Institution 
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. 
3:30  PM - 4:00 PM
Break 
4:00  PM - 5:30 PM
Part  2: Prescriptive Standards versus Performance Management 
Introduction  and Recap of Part 1
Joelle Wickens, Chair, Collection Care  Network; Associate Conservator, 
Preventive Team Head and Winterthur Assistant  Professor, Winterthur 
Museum/University of Delaware 
Importance  of Standards and Guidelines to Inform Preventive Conservation 
Initiatives in  Museums
Kristen Overbeck Laise, Vice President,  Collection Care Programs, Heritage 
Preservation 
Standards  Make Us Myopic: We Focus on Specific Values at the Expense of 
Real  Issues
James Reilly, Founder and Director,  Image Permanence Institute 
Group  Discussions
Moderated by Robert Waller, Protect  Heritage Corp. and Catharine Hawks, 
Conservator, NMNH Smithsonian  Institution 
Participants  will discuss the two approaches as introduced by Laise and  
Reilly. 
Session  Wrap-up 
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. 
Cathy 
Catharine  Hawks
Conservator, NMNH
(h) 703.876.9176
(o) 202.633.0835
mobile  703.200.4370
mobile  202.701.8458

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