Preventive Conservation on a Shoestring: Cutting Budgets, Not Corners
Tuesday, June 1 at 2pm
Presented by Angélica Isa Adaniya, Conservator, Museo Pachacamac, Ministry of Culture of Peru.
Presentation Summary: This presentation will briefly look through the 10 agents of deterioration and talk about how we can avoid and block potential risks and damage to our collections when we are suffering from budget cuts and other limitations. It is easy to believe dwindling budgets can equal total disaster.
It is certainly a real risk, however, a careful review and reorganization of our available resources is likely to highlight unexpected opportunities and lead to surprising results. Three main examples regarding: environmental monitoring, integrated pest management, and dissociation will prove that not having any budget money does not necessarily mean that you are not able to have any conservation standards.
Angélica Isa Adaniya has been a conservator for the Pachacamac site museum in Lima, under the Ministry of Culture of Peru since 2016. She has been in charge of creating and implementing the preventive conservation programme and volunteers as the social media manager for the museum as well. She studied anthropology at Grinnell College and then went on to pursue a Masters in Conservation of Archaeological and Museum Objects at University of Durham, in the U.K. Angélica is interested in bringing conservation closer to the general public and is beginning a journey as an online course creator for museum and conservation topics.
All Things Archival: Ask an Expert Q&A
Wednesday, June 2 at 2pm
Presented by Sonya Barron, Book and Paper Conservator at the University of Iowa; Onnica Marquez; Archivist and Special Collections Librarian and St. Ambrose University; and Rosie Rowe, Audiovisual Preservation Specialist at Iowa State University Library
Presentation Summary: Bring all of your questions about archival preservation and conservation to this question and answer session! From photographs to videos and documents to floppy discs, all things archival are up for discussion with our three experts. A form for submitting questions in advance will be provided to all conference registrants or questions can be asked live during the session.
Sonya Barron is a book and paper conservator at Iowa State University Library. She holds a Master of Library Science from UT-Austin and is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC). Sonya was previously the head of book conservation at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California and served as a conservator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Onnica Marquez is the Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at St. Ambrose University. She is a “lone arranger” and juggles preserving physical, digitized, and born digital materials. She received her Master’s in Museum Studies from Western Illinois. She is an adjunct instructor teaching collections management at both SAU and WIU. Her specialty is at home, DIY, low budget preservation of family documents and heirlooms.
Rosie Rowe is the Audiovisual Preservation Specialist at Iowa State University Library, designing and implementing AV preservation infrastructure, workflows for the University Library Preservation Department. Previously, Rosie was the AV Preservation Senior Advisor for the National Archives of New Zealand. With over ten years working within Archives specifically, Rosie’s main professional focus is designing realistic AV preservation infrastructure and workflows, friendly to institutions that may have fewer resources but maintain an obligation to preserve their AV collections. She is also focused on inclusion and actively recruits BIPoC and LGBTQ students into the AV lab at ISU.
Collection Care for Small Museums That Won’t Break the Bank
Thursday, June 3 at 2pm
Presented by Nathan Arndt, Director and Chief Curator, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Presentation Summary: In this session Nathan will present some simple but important concepts in museum preservation and conservation that can be implemented into a small institution on a limited budget. Nathan will also field your questions regarding conservation problems and myths that we see in the profession and offer advice on how to implement these ideas into your institution.
Nathan Arndt is the Director and Chief Curator of the Museum and Center for the History of Rural Iowa Education and Culture at the University of Northern Iowa. Nathan earned a bachelor’s degree in American history from Buena Vista University and a master’s degree in history from the University of Rhode Island where he specialized in material culture and collections care. He has worked over a decade in museum service including time as the exhibits designer and curator at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University and his current position at UNI. While his background is in museum management and collections care, today he finds himself teaching the next generation of museum professionals through his adjunct teaching and intensive internship programs in Cedar Falls.
Preserving Your Digital Objects and Information
Friday, June 4 at 2pm
Presented by Tom Keyser, Librarian and Certified Archivist with the State Library of Iowa
Presentation Summary: Tom will touch on the basics of digital preservation and look at how principles apply across all cultural institutions – museums, archives, libraries, and more. The second half of the presentation will be an open Q&A where Tom will answer your questions about broad and narrow issues within the field of digital preservation.
Tom Keyser is a Librarian and Certified Archivist with the State Library of Iowa. He has worked in libraries and archives; academic, corporate and government. His duties have shifted to include a lot of work in the digital realm; creating and managing digital documents and images, presentation and preservation, and consulting with other cultural institutions working with digital objects and information.