[Anchasl-l] Cultural Respect in Preservation and Conservation
Robert James
robert.james at duke.edu
Fri Apr 25 14:55:48 EDT 2008
Cultural Respect in Preservation and Conservation
North Carolina Preservation Consortium Annual Conference
November 20, 2008 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Preservation and conservation of collections in libraries, archives,
museums, and historic sites are guided by professional ethics, standards,
guidelines, and best practices. This year’s North Carolina Preservation
Consortium (NCPC) annual conference will address the issues of cultural
respect. Objects of material culture often hold intangible values for the
community of origin. Do collection institution leaders honor these values
with policies of respect and community collaboration? Some artifacts may
not be intended for use or view by the public. Do collection institution
caretakers place restrictions on access and exhibition? Some communities
may wish to use artifacts in traditional ceremonies and rituals. Do
collection institution stewards approve such requests? Some communities
believe their cultural objects should deteriorate naturally. Do
preservation and conservation professionals permit this to happen? We
often profess to champion diversity in our collections. Do we respect
multicultural perspectives on the preservation and conservation of
heritage collections? Is there a moral imperative to preserve and
conserve books, manuscripts, documents, photographs, film, sound
recordings, art, and artifacts? Please join us for presentations and
discussions on these and other issues of cultural respect and heritage
preservation.
Invited Speakers
Michele Cloonan
Dean and Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Simmons College
Boston, Massachusetts
Prior to coming to Simmons College, Michele Cloonan was Chair and
Associate Professor of the Department of Information Studies at the
University of California, Los Angeles. Over the past twenty years, she
has written extensively in the areas of preservation, book trade history,
and bibliography. Her most recent publications have concerned the
preservation of digital media and the moral and ethical dimensions of
preserving cultural heritage. Before she began her teaching career, she
worked as a book conservator at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and
started the library preservation program at Brown University. While a
professor at UCLA she took a one-year leave of absence and was the Curator
of Rare Books at Smith College. Dean Cloonan has held a variety of
offices in the American Library Association, served on the board of the
American Printing History Association, and is currently on the Board of
Directors of the Northeast Document Conservation Center and the
Massachusetts Center for the Book. She has also served on the editorial
boards of Libraries & Culture and Library Quarterly. Her honors include
the Robert Vosper/IFLA Fellows Programme award, the Bibliographic Society
of America Fellowship, and a fellowship to the Virginia Center of Creative
Arts. She holds degrees from Bennington College (AB), the University of
Chicago (AM), and the University of Illinois (MS, PhD). She has been a
visiting or adjunct professor at Northern Illinois University, the
Universities of Illinois, Rhode Island, and Alabama, and Smith College.
Marian A. Kaminitz
Head of Conservation
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, District of Columbia
Serving as Head of Conservation at the Smithsonian Institution National
Museum of the American Indian since 1991, Marian A. Kaminitz supervises a
staff of conservators, fellows, interns, and contractors. She was
Assistant Conservator in the Anthropology Department at the American
Museum of Natural History, New York from 1985 - 1991 and from 1988 - 1998
was also Adjunct Professor of Conservation at the New York University’s
Conservation Center, teaching a course in the conservation of organic
ethnographic and archaeological objects. Ms. Kaminitz received a Masters
of Science in the Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works from the
University of Delaware Winterthur Museum Program in Art Conservation.
Advanced training included an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Pacific
Regional Conservation Center, Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1984
to 1985. She served as the Coordinator for the Ethnographic Working Group
of the International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation from
1999-2005 and is currently an assistant coordinator. Her interests and
publication topics include conservation collaborations with Native
American community consultants, merging disciplines of traditional
cultural care of collections with museum practices, use of museum
collections by Native American communities, preserving cultures vs.
things, and preservation of intangible aspects of cultural materials.
Karen L. Jefferson
Head of Archives and Special Collections
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Atlanta University Center
Karen L. Jefferson has over thirty years of experience working in
archives. Before coming to Atlanta she served as the African American
Studies Archivist/Bibliographer for the John Hope Franklin Research Center
at Duke University. Preceding Duke, she was a program officer in the
Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the
Humanities. She worked for eighteen years as an archivist at the
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University. She holds a B.A.
degree in History from Howard University and received her master’s degree
in library science from Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University).
She was an instructor in the SOLINET Preservation Workshop for
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and the NEH-funded
HBCU Archives Institute 2001-2004. She has served as a consultant
assessing archival programs at the Amistad Research Center, Archives
Center of the National American History Museum, the Birmingham Civil
Rights Institute, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American
History, and the W. W. Law Foundation. In 2003 the University of Maryland
College Park, College of Information Studies presented to Ms. Jefferson
the James Partridge Outstanding African American Information Professional
Award. In 2004 she was inducted as a Society of American Archivists
Fellow. This is the highest honor bestowed on individuals by the Society
and is awarded for outstanding contributions to the archival profession.
In 2005 she received the National Freedom Day Association’s Major R.R.
Wright Award for exceptional leadership and devoted service in the
honoree's chosen profession. The Robert W. Woodruff Library at the
Atlanta University Center serves the information needs of four
historically black colleges; Clark Atlanta University, the
Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College, and Spelman
College. The Library is also the custodian for the Morehouse College
Martin Luther King Jr. Collection.
Corine Wegener
President, United States Committee of the Blue Shield
Associate Curator
Architecture, Design, Decorative Arts, Craft, and Sculpture
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Corine Wegener is President of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, a
nonprofit organization committed to the protection of cultural property
worldwide during armed conflict. She is also Associate Curator in the
Department of Architecture, Design, Decorative Arts, Craft, and Sculpture
at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. A retired major with 21 years of
service in the U.S. Army Reserve, she served her last 13 years as a Civil
Affairs officer. Ms. Wegener’s last assignment was in Baghdad, Iraq as
the Arts, Monuments, and Archives Officer for the 352nd Civil Affairs
Command from May 2003 to March 2004. Her primary duty was to assist the
Iraq National Museum after the looting in April 2003. She is a coauthor
of the U.S. Army publication GTA 41-01-002, Civil Affairs Arts, Monuments,
and Archives Guide, a resource for soldiers on the protection of cultural
property in a wartime environment. She received her bachelor’s degree
from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and dual masters degrees in
Political Science and Art History from the University of Kansas.
Program Schedule
8:30 - 9:30 Registration & Refreshments
9:30 - 9:40 Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:40 - 10:40 Michele Cloonan
10:40 - 11:40 Marian A. Kaminitz
11:40 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Karen L. Jefferson
2:00 - 2:30 Afternoon Break
2:30 - 3:30 Corine Wegener
3:30 - 4:30 Panel and Audience Discussion
Who Should Attend
All personnel working in libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and
other heritage institutions will benefit from this conference, as well as
college and university faculty, and students in library and information
science, archives, public history, museum, conservation, and related
disciplines. Community advocates for respect in heritage preservation are
also welcome.
Registration
The registration fee is $60.00 for employees of NCPC member institutions
and individual NCPC members, $75.00 for non-members, and $50.00 for
students in library science, archives, public history, or museum programs.
This fee includes lunch, refreshments, and materials. Please register
before November 1, 2008. A registration form is available on the NCPC Web
site under Events: http://www.ncpreservation.org
Location, Directions, and Parking
The 2008 NCPC annual conference will be held at the William and Ida Friday
Center for Continuing Education at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Friday Center for Continuing Education
UNC Chapel Hill
Campus Box 1020
100 Friday Center Drive
Chapel Hill NC 27599-1020
Parking is free. Directions to the Friday Center are available on their
Web site:
http://www.fridaycenter.unc.edu/directions/index.htm
Travel and Lodging
NCPC has not reserved any airline or hotel accommodations.
The information below is provided for your convenience.
Raleigh/Durham International Airport
Web site http://www.rdu.com
Hotels near the airport
Web site http://www.rdu.com/travelinfo/areainfo.htm
Hotels in Chapel Hill
Web site
http://hotel-guides.us/north-carolina/chapel-hill-nc-hotels.html#university-hotels
Cancellation and Refund Policy
The annual conference may be cancelled due to low registration or other
causes beyond our control, such as severe weather. In such an event,
registrants will be notified and fees refunded. Otherwise, registration
fees are nonrefundable. Substitution of staff from your institution is
permitted.
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North Carolina Preservation Consortium http://www.ncpreservation.org
The North Carolina Preservation Consortium (NCPC) is a 501C3 nonprofit
organization dedicated to the preservation of educational, historical,
cultural, and research collections in our state's archives, libraries,
museums, historic sites, document depositories, and record centers. NCPC
also informs the general public about preservation to safeguard private
collections and family treasures. Our preservation mission addresses the
proper care and handling of materials; storage and environmental control;
disaster preparedness and recovery; the repair, reformatting and
conservation of damaged items; and collection security. NCPC supports the
preservation of information content, and the medium as artifact, in new
and traditional formats for present and future generations.
Membership
We would like to welcome your institution to the preservation consortium.
Our minimum annual membership fee is only $100.00. Higher levels of
support are voluntary. Benefits of NCPC membership include discounts on
our continuing education workshops and annual conference. Employees of
institutional members are eligible to hold leadership positions as
officers and on the consortium's board of directors, committees, and task
groups. Member institutions are also recognized for their contributions on
our Web site. The success of our state wide preservation program depends
on the talents, diversity, and generosity of our colleagues. Together we
can make a difference in the survival of our heritage collections. Join
NCPC today! Membership information is available on the NCPC web site:
http://www.ncpreservation.org/membership.html
Support NCPC
Our programs are made possible by the generous financial support of our
institutional members, corporate sponsors, and individual donors. If you
would like to make a gift to the North Carolina Preservation Consortium
please visit our Preservation Philanthropy Webpage at
http://www.ncpreservation.org/support.html
Institutional members are listed on the NCPC Web site at
http://www.ncpreservation.org/members.html.
Corporate Sponsors are listed at
http://www.ncpreservation.org/corporatesponsor.htm.
For additional information please contact:
Robert James
Executive Director
North Carolina Preservation Consortium
PO Box 2651
Durham, NC 27715-2651
Phone (919) 660-1157
Email robertjamesncpc at gmail.com
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