17th Annual Preservation Conference
Lessons Learned in Emergencies: Not Your Ordinary Disaster Conference
March 21, 2002
The National Archives and Records Administration's Annual Preservation Conferences cover topics on the creation, use, exhibition, care-and-handling, conservation, duplication, and long-term storage of information on paper, film, tape, and disk.
The 2002 conference brought together archivists, librarians, and conservators to describe hands-on experience with disaster prevention, recovery, and mitigation.
Outlines, notes, and slides from the conference presentations:- Fire
Prevention - J.
Andrew Wilson, Assistant
Director for Fire Protection
and Safety, Smithsonian
Institution
- New
Techniques for Fire Detection
and Suppression
- Nick Artim, Director,
Fire Safety Network
-
NARA-Sponsored Research
in Records Fire Suppression
and the Role of Security
in Disaster Prevention
- Steve Hannestad, Director,
Space and Security Management
Division, NARA
-
Emergency
Response Training
- Ann Seibert, Head, Preventive
Conservation, Library of
Congress
-
Fire
Recovery: A Case Study
- Susan Page, Senior Paper
Conservator, NARA
-
Efficacy
of Various Recovery Techniques
- Kathy Ludwig, Senior
Paper Conservator, NARA
- Objects
Recovery, Mitigation
- Jerry Podany, Objects
Conservator, Getty Museum
- Damage
Mitigation and Recovery:
Magnetic Media
- Peter Brothers, CEO,
SPECS BROS., LLC.
- Recovery of Film - Roger Markham, Senior Technical Marketing Specialist, Kodak
