[BKARTS] Learning from Katrina: Conservators' First-Person Accounts

[Mark Arend <mwarend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ran across this the other day.


Learning from Katrina: Conservators' First-Person Accounts of Response
and Recovery; Suggestions for Best Practice

http://www.loc.gov/preserv/emergprep/katrinarespond.html


After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana
in 2005, several organized groups sent conservators to help assess the
damage created at many cultural institutions. Several federal agencies
sent employees to evaluate federal sites, and training programs sent
staff and students to help where needed. The American Association for
State and Local History arranged to send two mobile units to assess the
conditions of the states' collecting institutions.  Staffed by museum
professionals and conservation volunteers, the mobile units, under the
auspices of the Heritage Emergency Assistance Recovery Teams (HEART)
Assessment Program assessed as many cultural institutions as possible.
The program, generously funded by the Watson-Brown Foundation of
Thomson, Georgia, and the History Channel provided valuable on-site
assistance and helped local staff to cope with beginning a recovery of
their collections.

On April 20 and 21, 2006 the Library of Congress Preservation
Directorate, in collaboration with FLICC and the American Folklife
Center interviewed ten of the volunteers in "Capturing Katrina:
Collections-Recovery Experiences: Oral Histories of the First
Preservers." Seven of the interviews with the recovery volunteers are
now available through this website.








Mark Arend
Oshkosh Wisc.





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