Preservation
LYRASIS Receives $450,000 from NEH to Provide Regional Preservation Field Services
Posted by Jennifer on 12 March, 2010 in Grants, Preservation
Atlanta, GA - March 11, 2010 - LYRASIS receives $450,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a two-year project to provide preservation field services to libraries, archives, and historical organizations in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the US.
With the support of the NEH and other organizations since 1984, LYRASIS Preservation [...]
Disaster Plan by MayDay 2010 Step 5
Posted by Alix on 8 March, 2010 in Librarians, Preservation, disaster
LYRASIS Preservation Services will be publishing easy steps that you can take to complete your Disaster Plan. A new step will be presented every 2 weeks. If you follow each step you will have a Disaster Plan by MayDay 2010.
Step 5 Collect Recovery Procedures
If you have been following along; you have assessed the potential [...]
Disaster Plan by MayDay 2010 Step 4
Posted by Alix on 22 February, 2010 in Librarians, Preservation, Uncategorized, disaster
LYRASIS Preservation Services will be publishing easy steps that you can take to complete your Disaster Plan. A new step will be presented every 2 weeks. If you follow each step you will have a Disaster Plan by MayDay 2010.
Step 4 Assess Salvage Priorities
In step 3 you were asked to identify essential services; the functions [...]
Disaster Plan by MayDay 2010 Step 3 Identify Essential Services
Posted by Alix on 8 February, 2010 in Librarians, Preservation, disaster
LYRASIS Preservation Services will be publishing easy steps that you can take to complete your Disaster Plan. A new step will be presented every two weeks. If you follow each step you will have a Disaster Plans by MayDay 2010.
In step 1, you began gathering information about your cultural institution’s current state of readiness and [...]
Disaster Plan by MayDay 2010 Step 2
Posted by Alix on 25 January, 2010 in Librarians, Preservation, disaster
LYRASIS Preservation Services will be publishing easy steps that you can take to complete your Disaster Plan. A new step will be presented every 2 weeks. If you follow each step you will have a Disaster Plan by MayDay 2010. To review previous steps simply search mayday.
Step 2 Assessment
You began gathering existing information and organizing [...]
Disaster Plan by MayDay 2010 Step 1
Posted by Alix on 11 January, 2010 in Librarians, Preservation, disaster
LYRASIS Preservation Services will be publishing easy steps that you can take to complete your Disaster Plan. A new step will be presented every 2 weeks. If you follow each step you will have a Disaster Plan by MayDay 2010.
Step 1: Planning
With a new year come resolutions and goals. You are anxious to get started [...]
May Day! MayDay! Do You Have a Disaster Plan?
Posted by Alix on 4 January, 2010 in Librarians, Preservation
Follow along with the LYRASIS Preservation Services and have a disaster plan MayDay.
Discussions of disasters appear in news, blogs and listservs weekly, reminding us that a collection and facility damaging event can happen to anyone at any time. And yet, many of us put off writing a disaster plan.
Heritage Preservation along with the [...]
Information Institute Launches Web Portal to Facilitate Public Library Hurricane Preparedness and Response
Posted by Alicia on 9 June, 2009 in Library News, Preservation, Public Libraries, disaster
The Information Use Management & Policy Institute (Information Institute) directed by Charles R. McClure, Francis Eppes Professor at the College of Information, Florida State University (FSU) has officially launched its web portal: Hurricane Preparedness and Response for Florida Public Libraries. The portal provides a wealth of information and resources for public librarians and others to [...]
Hurricane Season is Here–Are You Ready?
Posted by Alicia on 9 June, 2009 in Preservation, disaster
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) forecasters say a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely for 2009, with a 70 percent chance of having nine to 14 named storms, of which four to seven could become hurricanes, including one to three major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5). With 35 million people living [...]
HBCU Photograph Preservation Project Comes to Life on YouTube
Posted by Alicia on 27 May, 2009 in HBCU, Preservation
Since 2007, Lyrasis has been involved in a project funded by the Mellon Foundation to improve the preservation of photographic collections held by Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Now, a video on the project has been produced at Spelman College (GA) and posted to YouTube. To read more about the Mellon-funded project, click here. To view [...]