PRESERVATION WEEK: April 22-28, 2012

The "American Library Association" is in full preparation for the anual "Preservation Week".

Some 630 million items in collecting institutions require immediate attention and care. Eighty percent of these institutions have no paid staff assigned responsibility for collections care; 22 percent have no collections care personnel at all. Some 2.6 billion items are not protected by an emergency plan. As natural disasters of recent years have taught us, these resources are in jeopardy should a disaster strike. Personal, family, and community collections are equally at risk.

ALA encourages libraries and other institutions to use Preservation Week to connect our communities through events, activities, and resources that highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our personal and shared collections. Last year, over 65 events took place nationwide. 

Get updates on Preservation Week 2012 events in Facebook:
 http://www.facebook.com/preservationweek.  

For more info, please visit their official "Preservation Week" website:

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/preswk/index.cfm


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