This fall, Nylink is offering Get Started:  Preservation Building Blocks for Small Institutions.  This low cost workshop is great for anyone who is dealing with preservation issues at their institutions.  While preservation is often pushed to the side for more glamorous topics like web 2.0 technologies, it is an issue we all deal with and must be aware of.

Here are some other preservation and collection based trainings going on:

Association of State and Local History:

Collections Management and Practices
Dates: June 24-25, 2010
Location: Keeney Memorial Cultural Center, Wethersfield, CT
Host: Connecticut Humanities Council, Hartford, CT

Museum Classes Online:

Online classes starting July 5, 2010:

MS104: An Introduction to Collections Preservation
MS107: Introduction to Museum Security
MS207: Collections Management: Cataloging Your Collection
MS217: Museum Cleaning Basics
MS223: Care of Metals
MS235: Scripting the Exhibition
MS242: Museum Microclimates

For more information on the classes, and to order a class, go to www.museumclasses.org .

Buy two or more similarly priced 2010 classes in one order and get 5% off.

Lyrasis:

Preservation and Salvage of Audiovisual Materials (Live Online) 07/06/2010, 10:00am-12:00pm Eastern Time

This class offers preventive preservation strategies and salvage options for audiovisual materials commonly found in libraries and archives.

Society of American Archivists:

Electronic Records: Preservation of PDFs:  Webinar on demand

Disaster Planning for Electronic Records: June 22,  webinar

The American Association for State and Local History announced the winners of its Leadership in History Awards Program for 2008.  These awards recognize the best of the best in state and local history.  New York state winners are the Coalition of Niagara County Historical Societies for the public program, World War II Axis Prisoners of War at Fort Niagara 1944-45 and the New York State Archives for the website, Throughout the Ages

Libraries, museums, archives, arts and historic preservation organizations across the nation will set aside May 1 to participate in MayDay, a national effort to prepare for disasters.  Sponsored by Heritage Preservation, AASLH and other members of the Heritage Emergency National Taskforce, MayDay encourages organizations to take one simple step to protect the art, artifacts, records, and historic sites they hold in trust.

Any type of organization can participate in MayDay.  For example CLRC sponsored a discussion on health and safety in archives.  Others have shared collection plans with outside organizations to learn from one another.  Perhaps you might bring together a committee to review and update your disaster plan.

Organizations are encouraged to share their MayDay stories and they will be entered in a drawing for disaster supplies donated by Gaylord Brothers.  You can submit your plans (in brief!) to taskforce@heritagepreservation.org by May 22.