Open Arms: Expanding the Cultural Emergency Preparedness Community
April 25, 2017
Video (63 minutes)
About the Lecture:
The Library of Congress celebrates Preservation Week and presents this lecture as the IFLA PAC (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions - Preservation and Conservation) center for the U.S.A. and Canada.
New projects in the cultural heritage and performing arts communities are prompting a variety of organizations to look at collaborative emergency preparedness in a wider perspective. This presentation presents details on a variety of new initiatives that are working to broaden cooperation in disaster planning and recovery.
Tom Clareson About Preservation Week 
About the Speaker
Tom Clareson is Senior Consultant for Digital & Preservation Services at LYRASIS. He consults and teaches workshops on preservation, disaster preparedness, digitization, digital preservation, special collections/archives, remote storage, funding, strategic planning, and advocacy.
Clareson received the 2014 George Cunha and Susan Swartzburg Award from the American Library Association, recognizing the recipient’s career work in cooperative preservation. Lead consultant on 17 IMLS “Connecting to Collections” statewide preservation planning grants, he also led six implementation projects.
Previously Program Director for New Initiatives at PALINET and Global Product Manager at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Tom also held program management positions at Amigos Library Services. He was Acting President of Heritage Preservation in 2015, after serving on the organization’s Board for 15 years. Currently, Tom is a member of the Board of Directors, Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.
Tom has taught graduate-level preservation courses for University of Texas-Austin, University of California-Los Angeles, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
