Pass it On: Saving Heritage and Memories, Preserving Family Treasures

Ever wonder how to store old baseball cards? How to carefully handle a fragile old family photo? How to preserve your digital diary or your quilt collection? Everyone who saves things, from family mementos to world-class collections, has similar questions.

Libraries care for their vast and varied collections everyday, so they are the perfect places for learning about preservation. In recognition of this, the American Library Association will launch its first Preservation Week May 9\x9615, 2010. The New Jersey State Library is partnering with ALA in developing and piloting a new workshop to help your library celebrate collecting and preservation in your community, and to highlight your institution as a source of preservation information.

Preservation is a theme that can be used to bring in people and develop new audiences in your library. You do not have to be an expert in preservation to present informative programs to the public. This workshop will give you the ideas and resources you will need to develop successful preservation programming for your customers.

Participants will learn some basic preservation strategies for assisting the public in caring for their family treasures, as well as ideas for fostering preservation awareness and developing outreach programs in your community.

Possible outreach and awareness ideas include digitizing family photographs or papers, digital archiving and metadata for the home photographer, display of family treasures, sharing your family food heritage, a memories \x93road show,\x94 caring for family documents, scrapbooking for posterity, organizing family collections, home movie day, quilt/wedding dress care, and disaster recovery for important family papers. Register now for what promises to be an interesting and informative workshop for library directors, preservation staff, or program/outreach managers.

Cost: $20 (covers continental breakfast and lunch). Time: 9:30-- 3:30 workshop (9:00-9:30 Registration).

March 30: Parsippany Troy Hills Public Library. March 31: Hasbrouck Heights Public Library. April 7: East Brunswick Public Library. April 8: Cherry Hill Public Library.

Space is limited. Registration and payment takes places online at: www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Events For further information please contact Michele Stricker, Deputy Director, Library Development Bureau, New Jersey State Library at mstricker@PROTECTED.

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