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ALCTS webinar: Preservation Week: Caring for Family Keepsakes

Date: Thursday, April 25, 2019

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 AM Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 PM Central, and 2 PM Eastern time.

This free webinar is sponsored by the PARS Preservation Outreach Committee.

Description: This presentation highlights basic archival care for common family treasures such as photo albums, loose photographs, Bibles, clocks, jewelry, and more. Dozens of photos illustrate proper storage practices, and damage resulting from poor storage and common hazards such as silverfish, mold, and acid migration. Discover what to save when you inherit a houseful of “treasures,” how and where to store your keepsakes, and how to set up a home archive so you can easily access items for research and sharing.

Learning outcomes:

• Understanding the value of preserving family history

• Archives 101: What Do I Do With All This Stuff?

• Preservation tips for popular family heirlooms

• Damage Control: how to choose suitable home storage

• How to identify pests and other risks

• Best practices for home digitization

Who should attend?

Anyone interested in learning more about how to preserve their family history. This Preservation Week webinar is intended to provide a programming opportunity for public libraries to share with their patrons.

Presenter:

Denise May Levenick is a genealogist, writer, and speaker with a passion for preserving and sharing family treasures of all kinds. She is the creator of The Family Curator website www.TheFamilyCurator.com and the author of two books on family archiving. How to Archive Family Keepsakes and How to Archive Family Photos (FamilyTree Books).

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This webinar is free. To attend this free webinar, simply signup online and you will receive the access link via email.

For additional information and access to the registration link, please go to the following website:

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/042519

Call 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 to reach our customer service representatives or

Register by mail for the session you would like to attend. (If you receive an error message after clicking the "register by mail" link, right-click the link and save the form to your computer.)

ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.

Contact

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Megan Dougherty, Program Officer, ALCTS Continuing Education at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5038 or mdougherty@ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.