Helping in Haiti

Have you been reading the updates on the Haiti earthquake and wishing that you could help? Are you an archivist,conservator,preservation professional? Read on.

There has been a call for volunteers through the Blue Shield network,and according to the International Council of Archives,as of February 11,2010,there have been over [...]

Building connections:the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf

We found out in mid-June that we were selected as a recipient of the IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf in the final round of awards. Since then,I’ve been itching to receive the materials from the American Association of State &Local History (AASLH) so that I could review them and put together a [...]

May Day 2009

This year,I planned a full day of disaster and salvage-type activities for all staff,but due to scheduling conflicts it will not happen until the end of May. Unfortunately,that means that I don’t get to participate in all of the cool MayDay-type stuff that seems to be going on elsewhere–[...]

Some thoughts about disaster planning

Do you have a disaster plan? When was it last updated? In case of an emergency,how useful would it be? These are just a few questions that apply to the situation in which museums,libraries,and archives found themselves over the past few weeks in Iowa,Minnesota,and other places affected by flooding.

Some [...]