Heritage Preservation has announced Caring for Yesterday’s Treasures – Today –<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/i>http:\/\/www.connectingtocollections.org\/courses – a series of free, online courses about the preservation of archival and historical collections. \u00a0Tailored to meet the needs and schedules of staff and volunteers at libraries and archives, each course includes four to six 90-minute, interactive webinars presented by preservation experts. \u00a0Participants are encouraged to submit specific questions about collections care to ensure that the courses are directly relevant to their needs.<\/p>\n
The series will be conducted via the Connecting to Collections\u00a0<\/em>Online Community – http:\/\/www.connectingtocollections.org<\/a>. \u00a0Each course will have its own Web page with handouts and links to additional resources. \u00a0When each course concludes, participants will be able to continue to conversation with instructors and classmates via the\u00a0Connecting to Collections\u00a0<\/em>online community.<\/p>\n Course Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n Collections Care Basics: Where Do I Begin? –\u00a0<\/em>January 2013<\/p>\n Risk Evaluation: First Step in Disaster Planning –\u00a0<\/em>February 2013<\/p>\n Protecting Your Collections: Writing a Disaster Response Plan<\/em> – March 2013<\/p>\n Caring for Digital Materials: Preventing a Digital Dark Age –\u00a0<\/em>April 2013<\/p>\n Caring for Photographic Materials:\u00a0<\/em>May 2013<\/p>\n For more information, and to register, visit the Connecting to Collections course site here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.connectingtocollections.org\/courses<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heritage Preservation has announced Caring for Yesterday’s Treasures – Today –\u00a0http:\/\/www.connectingtocollections.org\/courses – a series of free, online courses about the preservation of archival and historical collections. \u00a0Tailored to meet the needs and schedules of staff and volunteers at libraries and archives, each course includes four to six 90-minute, interactive webinars presented by preservation experts. \u00a0Participants… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8135","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-preparedness","category-regional-news","category-training-education"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17342,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8135\/revisions\/17342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}