Resources

News, events and new resources:  these are listed on the main page as they come to hand, and sent to the mailing list.

2017

• Guide – salvaging collections 
  Part 1: Guidelines for best practice in the event of a disaster, 1
  Part 2: Guidelines for best practice in the event of a disaster, 2.
  Lynn Campbell.

2016

• Endangered Heritage : Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections
  2016: New user-friendly handbook launched by ICCROM and UNESCO helps save heritage collections in emergencies. Armed conflicts and natural disasters causing deliberate or collateral damage to cultural heritage are more prominent than ever. To help strengthen efforts to save collections from imminent threats, ICCROM and UNESCO have joined forces to produce Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections, a practical handbook available for free download.
  Built upon years of experience and real-life situations, this publication offers a field-tested, simple workflow for the emergency evacuation of valuable objects that is easy to replicate in any context.
  December 2016.

• Canterbury Cultural Collections Recovery Centre premiere
  This short film is a celebration of the Recovery Centre and its achievements. It tells the stories of the many cultural and heritage groups affected by the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010/2011 and their road to recovery.
  May 2016.

2015

• IFLA Risk Register for documentary heritage
  IFLA has created a Risk Register for documentary heritage in order to raise awareness for the preservation, conservation, and safeguarding of documentary heritage (in any format) world-wide.
  August 2015.