Preservation Management Summer School
13th - 15th July, 2004
The Meeting Place, 153 Drummond Street, London NW1 2PB

Course aims:
* to give participants an overview and understanding of preservation management issues
* to facilitate participants in assessing and developing
their own preservation strategy
* to provide practical introductions to specific techniques
for protecting archival material

The School is primarily intended for people working with archives and records across the heritage sector seeking to gain a thorough understanding of the main elements of a comprehensive archives preservation programme. The course will be suitable for people at all levels from archive assistants to librarian managers of archives repositories. It will focus on presenting the big picture of effective preservation management with detailed examination of key areas. The tutors will be Jonathan Rhys-Lewis, a leading consultant in preservation management, and Janet Foster and Margaret Crockett of the Archive-Skills Consultancy.

The course is intensive and highly participative: participants are encouraged to prepare by thinking about preservation issues in their own repositories. The programme is designed to enable you to evaluate your preservation needs and develop your skills and understanding throughout the course into an achievable strategy for implementation in the workplace.

There will be a conservation surgery on the last morning - participants may bring examples of packaging, damaged material, repair jobs for advice and discussion.

A course resource pack will be provided which includes:

* supporting papers for the course content
* bibliography
* glossary
* list of conservation suppliers
* product information
* basic cleaning kit

The course fee is £370 plus £64.75 VAT (total: £434.75) and in addition to the resource pack this includes tea, coffee and a light lunch.

PROGRAMME

Tuesday 13 July

9.45 Coffee & Registration
10.00 Introductions
Overview of course: the building blocks
Definitions and principles
Evaluating your preservation needs
Developing your preservation solutions
11.00 Use and handling: video and exercise
11.30 Coffee
11.45 Policies and strategies

12.15 Managing the environment to promote preservation
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Managing the risks: assessment and prevention
2.45 Introduction to surveys and benchmarking
3.00 Tea
3.15 Auditing your holdings: using the Preservation Assessment
Survey and Benchmarks in Collection Care
4.15 Field trip orientation

Wednesday 14 July

10.00 Field trip to conservation studio
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Preserving digital and audio-visual media
3.00 Tea
3.15 Using technology to copy and to preserve originals
3.45 Boxing and packaging
4.15 Overnight assignment: evaluating and using conservation
products

Thursday 15 July

10.00 Overnight assignment review
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Emergency planning and disaster recovery
12.15 Lunch
1.15 Surgery
2.15 Tea
2.30 Action plan development
3.30 Round-up

Comments from previous Preservation Management Summer Schools:

* "Excellent course!"
* "well-structured course"
* "This has been an eye-opening exercise and one I
would recommend to other archivists"
* "Good advice for people who don't work in rolls-royce institutions. we are always looking for low-tech/high-satisfaction solutions . found some on this course"
* "Excellent freebies and good handouts"
* "Very useful excellent reference material"
* "Very useful excellent reference material"
* "very impressive - an awful lot of thought had gone
into these"
* "The workshop activities were enjoyable and a good
way to learn"
* "Meeting other colleagues was very beneficial"
* "Very useful catalogues and liked the cleaning kit"

APPLICATION FORM

Send to: TASC, May Cottage, 1 Fountayne Road, London N16 7EB or email
to: janet@archive-skills.com Or fill in your registration form on-line
at: http://www.archive-skills.com/training/2004/13-7.php

Full name
Employer
Position
Address
Telephone
Fax
Email
- I enclose a cheque for £434.75 payable to the Archive-Skills
consultancy (TASC)
- I'd like a receipt
- Invoice my employer (give contact name and address if
different from above)

Evelyn Wareham - International Council on Archives