Over the past few years, disaster awareness and planning has
become a high priority in policy development for cultural institutions
and their governing agencies. Documents such as the ANAO audit on
the safeguarding of collections have focussed organisations on their
responsibility to assess and manage risks to those collections and
thereby ensure the continuity of their operations.
The two-day training course has been designed to assist those who
are responsible for disaster planning for cultural collections;
* to develop and maintain disaster plans
* to prevent or reduce the risk and impact of disasters and
* to coordinate disaster response and recovery actions.
There will be a maximum of 20 participants drawn from the full
spectrum of cultural collecting agencies. Participants will experience
disaster scenarios and deal with the recovery of affected materials.
The presenter will be Kim Morris, Director of Art and Archival
Pty Ltd. Kim has 22 years experience in the field of paper conservation
that includes considerable time working in large national cultural
institutions based in Canberra. His areas of expertise include paper
conservation, preventive conservation, disaster planning for cultural
collections, and education and training. |
