Community Webinar: Making the Most of the Storage You Have

This webinar explored the realities of using the storage you have to the best benefit of collections.

Recorded:  Monday, March 5, 2012

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes

Guest Experts: Laura Hortz Stanton, Director of Preservation Services at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) and Julia Clark, Curator of Collections at the Abbe Museum.

Host: Elsa Huxley, Director of Communications, Heritage Preservation

Featured Resources:

• CCAHA Conference Materials:  A Space Odyssey: Storage Strategies for Cultural Collections
• CCAHA Technical Bulletin: Light Levels for Storage and Exhibition
• CCAHA Technical Bulletin: Criteria for Selecting Housing Materials for Photographs
• NetNebraska’s Saving Your Treasures: Storage
• Northeast Document Conservation Center (NDCC):  Storage Methods and Handling Practices
• National Park Service Conserve O Gram: Determining Museum Storage Equipment Needs
• National Park Service Conserve O Gram: Determining Museum Storage Space Requirements
• Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI):  Notes on Storage

Resources Shared on Live Chat

• Locally Available Material List from Julia Clark
• Live Chat transcript from 2/23/12 webinar on this topic