May 01 2008
MayDay!
While clearly I’ve been pretty busy with other things lately, I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to talk about the MayDay initiative. Started in 2006 by then-SAA president Richard Pearce-Moses and several others, MayDay is a way to call attention to the challenges of protecting historical collections. Some of the ways to participate in MayDay: update your disaster plan, educate administrators and users regarding the dangers that collections face, do a preservation survey to assess conditions and hazards. SAA has helpfully compiled many other suggestions here. Check them out– and even if you’ve missed MayDay this year, no reason why you can’t implement these ideas in the coming months.