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PRESERVATION WEEK 2021

Preserving Community Archives


April 25 – May 1

 
The University of Miami Libraries (UML) is pleased to present its fourth annual Preservation Week, a national event sponsored by the American Library Association.

Join us online as we celebrate this yearly event with a behind-the-scenes tour of our Conservation Lab and a special preservation webinar on capturing the community pandemic experience.
 
Virtual Tour of the Conservation Lab at UML
Monday, April 26 at 2:30 p.m. (EDT)

Join our Preservation Strategies team for a virtual tour of the Conservation Lab at the Otto G. Richter Library. Tune in to learn about the different ways we conserve and care for our paper-based collections, see our specialized tools in action, and hear about some of our recent projects.
Preserving Collective Community Memory: Florida Accounts from the Pandemic
Thursday, April 29 at 2 p.m. (EDT)

Join us for a webinar where speakers involved in preservation and conservation at UML, Florida International University, and Florida State University will share their work to document the experiences of the Florida community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar will conclude with a conversation about the ongoing and complex nature of the pandemic and related crises, and how these factors could impact preservation and conservation work in the future.

PANELISTS

Kalani Adolpho
Processing Archivist for Manuscripts & Archives Management at UML

Béatrice Colastin Skokan
Head of Manuscripts & Archives Management and Curator of Caribbean Collections at UML

Cristina Favretto
Head of Special Collections at UML

Jill Krefft
Institutional Repository Coordinator at Florida International University

Amanda Moreno
Cuban Heritage Collection Archivist at UML

Sandra Varry
Heritage & University Archivist at Florida State University


MODERATOR

Martha Horan
Head of Preservation Strategies at UML
 
These free online events will be hosted using Zoom software. Please create a Zoom account now if you haven't done so already. We recommend that you connect to each event ten minutes prior to its start time to test your connection and ensure that your technology is properly configured.
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About ALA Preservation Week 2021
"Preserving Community Archives"

Preservation Week is a national event sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) with the goal of sharing information and resources about preservation with the community.

This year’s Preservation Week theme is "Preserving Community Archives," and participating libraries will celebrate by offering special programs and services to connect library users with preservation tools, promote the importance of preservation, and strive to enhance knowledge of preservation issues among the general public. The memories and treasures of individuals, families, and communities are essential to our record of this process—they contribute to our understanding of history and its participants just as collections in libraries, museums, and archives do.
Questions?
Please contact the UM Libraries at library.events@miami.edu. Find the most up-to-date schedule and registration links posted on our Library Events page.
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