Preservation Awareness Project
Disasters & Quiet Catastrophes: Prevention and Recovery

Planning the Work, Working the Plan

In this workshop participants will create their own Disaster Plan to take back to their library on a flash drive for implementation. Templates, coaching, and hands-on plan development will assist attendees in preparing for “next steps” back at the library.

Presenters:
Barbara Berger Eden is the Director of the Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance at Cornell University Library. She has worked in preservation at Cornell University since 1988. Barbara has managed numerous grant-funded projects that have focused on digitization; conservation; microfilming; education and training. She is the past chair of the Preservation and Reformatting Section of the American Library Association and an active member of the Preservation Administrators Group of the New York State Comprehensive Research Libraries. In addition, she has been actively engaged in the many changes in the field and has served as a consultant to organizations as diverse as the Syracuse University Library, Union County Municipality, the Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, and the History Center of Tompkins County.

Michele Brown is head of Book Conservation at Cornell University, and a graduate of Fordham University. She received a certificate in Hand Bookbinding and Restoration from the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, England in 1977. She has been involved in book conservation since 1977, and has been a contract conservator for Harvard University, Dartmouth College, the Boston Athenaeum, and the University of Vermont, as well as a book conservator at the Boston Public Library, before taking over the management of the book conservation operation at Cornell in 1995. She has taught numerous bookbinding classes and conducted many workshops on care and handling of library materials, disaster preparedness, and mold remediation. She is a member of the Guild of Book Workers, and the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).