We are excited to announce a new forum for bringing together libraries and 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), and gives professionals an opportunity to learn about and share best practices, firsthand experience and helpful tools and resources from experts. All sessions will be FREE for participants.

The series will kick off with the Cooperative Community Emergency Response and Recovery Town Hall, 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 (with a live webcast of the GA event for remote participants). These sessions will focus on how local planning can lead to successful regional disaster response and recovery efforts. 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.

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

Alix Bentrud, Preservation Services Librarian, LYRASIS

Representative of Delaware Disaster Assistance Team (DDAT)  

   

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

Alix Bentrud, Preservation Services Librarian, LYRASIS

...and more to be announced

 

Click here to register for this FREE session today, and visit our Town Hall page to learn more.

Meet your LYRASIS Board of Trustees for fiscal year 2013-2014. Visit our Board of Trustees page to learn more.

Back row (left to right):

Jim Pierce (Non-Member Trustee), Director, Treasury Services-Georgia Institute of Technology (GA) Sandra Treadway, State Librarian, Library of Virginia (VA)

Kathlin Ray, Dean of Libraries and Teaching & Learning Technologies, University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center (NV)

Bonnie Lawlor (Non-Member Trustee), Executive Director, NFAIS (PA)

Cynthia Henderson, (Board Officer: Vice Chair), Executive Director, Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library, Howard University (DC)

Kate Nevins (Board Ex-Officio), Executive Director, LYRASIS (GA)

Julia Zimmerman, Dean of University Libraries, Florida State University Libraries (FL)

David Singleton, Director of Libraries, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library (NC)

Gregor Trinkaus-Randall (Non-Member Trustee), Preservation Specialist, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MA)

 

Front row (left to right):

Cynthia Roberts, Director of Library Services, Community College of Baltimore County (MD)

Jay Schafer, Director of Libraries, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (MA)

Ann Watson (Board Officer: Secretary), Dean of the Library, Shepherd University (WV)

Siobhan Reardon (Board Officer: Chair), President & Director, Free Library of Philadelphia (PA)

John Arnold (Non-Member Trustee and Board Officer: Treasurer), President, Linkage Systems Corporation (MA)

Elizabeth Gail McClenney, Deputy Director, Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library (GA)

Julie Walker, Deputy State Librarian, Georgia Public Library Service (GA)

 

Not pictured: 

Alberta Comer, University Librarian / Dean and Director, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah (UT)

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