About this Event
Half day symposium (50 places) and workshop (16 places) raising awareness of disaster preparedness and response for heritage collections. The symposium offers advice on frameworks and grants to help you protect your heritage collections.
13 October of each year is the International Day for Disaster Reduction, which promotes a global culture of risk awareness, disaster preparedness and disaster reduction. Australia has experienced significant natural disasters which have affected cultural heritage and collections. As we approach the 2021-2022 Australian disaster season it is timely to reflect and look at what we can practically put in place to safe guard our collections into the future.
Partnering with Blue Shield Australia, cultural institutions, professional associations and supported by the State Library of South Australia, this symposium is designed to raise awareness in the cultural heritage community about steps you can take to ensure your collections are cared for into the future.
Symposium - 50 places available - price $10
9.45 -10.00am Welcome, Introductions and Background
10.00 - 10.30am – Kylie Percival, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide/ASA, and Corinne Ball, History Trust of South Australia/AMAGA
Setting the scene – learning from disasters which have impacted cultural collections
• Experiences from the damp and drenched
• Dramatic and slow moving disasters
• Leverage your risk management
• Preparation trumps panic
10.30 – 11.00 – Tony Leviston - State Records of South Australia /ASA
Collection Inventories – what they are and how to use them to learn what you have in your collection In order to focus on what needs to be proactively preserved, or saved during a disaster, you need to know what you hold. A collection inventory involves identifying what you hold, at a macro level, so that decisions can be made when planning for and responding to a disaster. A collection inventory also offers other benefits, supporting archival appraisal or significance assessments, providing a high level description of the collection, and identifying collection issues. These principles are agnostic and can be applied and used across all collection types.
11.00 – 11.30am 30 minute break
11.30 – 12pm Amanda James and Pauline Cockrill History Trust of South Australia/AMAGA
Significance Assessments for Cultural Collections
• What they are
• Their role in helping to identify significant items in your collection
• Their role in helping you to preserve and protect your collection – you can’t preserve everything
• Support and grants available to help you obtain one
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Disaster management for Cultural Collections workshop - 16 places available - price $10
1.30pm – 3.45pm Heather Brown, Artlab Australia/ALIA
• What is it why does it matter
• Why do it
• How significance assessments help to inform your approach to disaster management for collections
• Tools to assist you develop a disaster plan
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hetzel Lecture Theatre, State Library of South Australia, Corner North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide, Australia
AUD 10.00