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Jane Hedberg P r e s e r v a t i o n  N e w s  

AIC-CERT 
The American Institute for Conservation (AIC) 
is creating a Collections Emergency Response 
Training program (CERT) with funding from 
the Institute of Museum and Library Services. 
AIC will organize and train a volunteer team 
of approximately 60 conservation, library, ar­
chive, and museum professionals to respond 
to cultural collection emergencies. Volunteers 
for the team will be required to complete 
FEMA’s Incident Command System training 
program (IS­100), be fit­tested for a respira­
tor, maintain recommended immunizations, 
supply materials and personal equipment, 
and attend an AIC advanced training work­
shop. The four­and­a­half day workshop will 
cover emergency response procedures, dam­
age assessment methods, salvage techniques, 
and the organization and management of a 
recovery operation. It will be offered three 
times in 2007. May 14–18 it will be held in 
Charleston, South Carolina; October 15–19 in 
Shepherdstown, West Virginia; and Novem­
ber 12–16 in Seattle, Washington. 

Volunteers must complete an application 
form and will be selected on a competitive 
basis. For more information, contact Eric 
Pourchot, professional development direc­
tor, AIC, 1717 K St. NW, Washington, D.C. 
20036; phone: (202) 452­9545, ext. 12; e­
mail: epourchot@aic­faic.org; URL: http://aic. 
stanford.edu/education/workshops/. 

IMLS conservation initiative 
The Institute of Museum and Library Ser­
vices (IMLS) has launched a new program, 
“Connecting to Collections: The IMLS Con­
servation Initiative.” This program has three 
components: a national conservation summit 
in Washington, D.C. in June 2007 followed 
by regional summits during 2007 and 2008, 
a group of core texts about collection care 

Jane Hedberg is preservation program offi  cer at Harvard 
University Library, e-mail: jane_hedberg@harvard.edu; 
fax: (617) 496-8344 

called a “conservation bookshelf” that will 
be distributed to summit participants, and 
$500,000 in grant funds for statewide pres­
ervation plans. These activities are intended 
to raise public awareness about the value of 
collections and to address the problems and 
solutions identified in the Heritage Preserva­
tion national survey, A Public Trust at Risk: A 
Report of the Heritage Health Index. 

For a complete text of the speech made 
by Anne­Imelda Radice, director of IMLS, at 
the Heritage Preservation Annual Meeting, 
see www.imls.gov/news/speeches/111506. 
shtm. 

For more information, contact Kevin 
O’Connell, IMLS, 1800 M Street NW, 9th 
Floor, Washington, D.C. 20036­5802; phone: 
(202) 653­4628; e­mail: koconnell@imls.gov; 
URL: www.imls.gov. 

SOLINET workshop schedule 
The Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET, 
Inc.) has several online courses in its winter 
2007 class schedule. SOLINET will conduct 
the three­part “Developing a Disaster Plan” 
on February 21, March 7, and March 21; 
“Introduction to Grants for Preservation” on 
February 28; “Caring for Originals During 
Scanning Projects” on March 1; “Preserving 
Oral Histories” on March 22; “Caring for 
Scrapbooks” on March 27; and “Metadata 
for Digitization and Preservation” on April 
12. All the sessions are two hours long and 
most are scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. 

The three session workshop costs $145 
for SOLINET members and $185 for non­
members. The single session workshops 
cost $100 for members and $140 for non­
members. 

For more information, contact Vanessa 
Richardson, SOLINET, 1438 West Peachtree 
Street NW, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30309­2955; 
phone: (800) 999­8558; fax: (404) 892­7879; 
e­mail: vanessa_richardson@solinet.net; URL: 
www.solinet.net/workshops/Inventorylist. 
cfm#Preservation. 

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