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Home Blog Archive by category "Disaster preparedness"

Category: Disaster preparedness

May Day: blinded by the light

Conservation, Disaster preparedness, Preservation/Conservation

We’re a teensy bit late on May Day this year. On May 1, we often celebrate May Day by doing something to help us out with preservation or disaster recovery planning. We’ve been getting some collections with old stills in …

MayDay in the Archives

Disaster preparedness, Events, Facilities and equipment, Preservation/Conservation 0

Today is MayDay. While some think of it as the first day of May and a way to celebrate Spring activities, in the archives world it is a day designated to do something significant to protect archival collections in the …

Hanging out in a log cabin

Disaster preparedness, Traveling archivist 0

So UAA has an honest-to-goodness, real log cabin parked on the grounds of the Alaska State Fair.  Apparently Matanuska-Susitna College has a cabin building course every so often and the cabin is the product of the 1982 class.  (Photos coming …

May Day: celebrate by protecting collections

Disaster preparedness May Day 1

Today is May Day.  In the archives world of late, it’s a day we try to celebrate by doing something to mitigate the effects of a disaster on our collections.  For more information, see the Society of American Archivist’s May …

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