The American Library Association, the Society of American Archivists, the Library of Congress, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and many other cultural heritage organizations have partnered to launch Preservation Week - a national campaign to help raise awareness about collecting and preservation, to connect the general public to preservation information and expertise, and to emphasize the close relationships among personal, family, community, and public collections and their preservation.

Currently, 630 million items in collecting institutions require immediate attention and care. Eighty percent of these institutions have no paid staff assigned responsibility for collections care; 22 percent have no collections care personnel at all. Some 2.6 billion items are not protected by an emergency plan. As natural disasters of recent years have taught us, these resources are in jeopardy should a disaster strike. Personal, family, and community collections are equally at risk.

UNLV University Libraries participates in this important campaign.

Preservation Open House
Panel Discussion
recorded
Saturday; April 28th, 2012 at 1:00PM
in UNLV Special Collections

Speakers:
Michael Frazier, Book & Paper Conservator
Cory Lampert, Head of Digital Collections
Peter Michel, Director of Special Collections

1 hour - raw audio

National Preservation Week Activities:

Girl Scouts Visit

Preservation Exhibit

Preservation Open House

Preservation Open House Poster (PDF file)

Rotary Club

UNLV 2012 Festival of Communities