We are excited to announce the LYRASIS Preservation Town Hall Series. This is a forum to bring together libraries and other cultural heritage organizations to discuss methods for safeguarding and sustaining valuable collections. The LYRASIS Preservation Town Hall Series is hosted by LYRASIS and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). These meetings provide an opportunity to learn about and share best practices, firsthand experiences, and helpful resources from experts in the community and your colleagues. All sessions will be FREE for participants.
The series will kick off with the Cooperative Community Emergency Response and Recovery Town Hall meeting, which will be held twice - first on October 8 at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and then again on December 6 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Atlanta, GA. The Atlanta session will be a webcast live for participants who are unable to travel.
There are many examples throughout the United States of cultural heritage organizations working with emergency management agencies to create community-wide networks that support joint planning, response and recovery. These partnerships also foster emergency readiness amongst the individual members of the network. Regardless of whether the disaster affects just one building or multiple states, these networks have been successful. Yet, every network is unique. Individual communities have developed their networks in a variety of ways to address political, organizational, and geographic issues. These meetings will focus on how local planning can lead to successful regional disaster response and recovery efforts.
Featured speakers for the October 8 Town Hall at Temple University include:
Lori Foley, Vice President for Emergency Programs, Heritage Preservation
Michele Stricker, Deputy Director, New Jersey State Library
Mary Anne Farrell, Delaware Disaster Assistance Team (DDAT)
Alix Bentrud, Preservation Services Librarian, LYRASIS
Featured speakers for the December 6 Town Hall at Georgia Tech include:
Lori Foley, Vice President for Emergency Programs, Heritage Preservation
Christine Wiseman, Head, Digital Services Unit, Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center and Heritage Emergency Response Alliance - Atlanta,
Steering Committee
Mona K Vance, Archivist, Columbus-Lowndes Public Library
Alix Bentrud, Preservation Services Librarian, LYRASIS
Visit our Town Hall page to learn more.
Click here for Cooperative Community Emergency Response and Recovery Town Hall. http://www.lyrasis.org/
To Register http://www.lyrasis.org/Pages/
