Preservation Education Opportunities

Local Training

The best source for current local and online training opportunities is the PRESERVENW listserv.

• Regional Alliance for Preservation Centers -- esp. Balboa Art Conservation Center, Lyrasis, and NEDCC have online and/or in-person workshops
• OCLC Western Service Center -- webinars and classes
• WESTPAS -- Western States and Territories Preservation Assistance Service -- workshops on disaster response for the west

A number of professional organizations also offer continuing education and workshops.

The following local organizations sometimes offer preservation programs:

• Book Arts Guild
• Northwest Archivists
• Seattle Area Archivists
• Washington Museum Association

Past Training Opportunities

• Washington Preservation Initiative Workshops (was funded by LSTA)
• Pacific Northwest Preservation Management Institute (one-time, funded by IMLS)

Formal Programs

Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record at University of Texas at Austin School of Information. The only formal full-time library preservation and conservation certificate program in the U.S.

Some other schools offer a preservation concentration within their library and information science programs (University of Pittsburgh and Simmons College, for example).

North Bennett School -- full-time bench bookbinding program (two years)

Rutgers University -- certificate program in Preservation Management

ART CONSERVATION

Four art conservation programs include paper conservation, photograph conservation, or conservation of library materials:

• NYU Institute of Fine Arts
• Queens Art Conservation (Kingston, Ontario)
• University of Buffalo Art Conservation
• University of Delaware/Winterthur Art Conservation

PHOTOGRAPH PRESERVATION

Ryerson University -- M.A. program in Photographic Preservation and Collection Management offered by Ryerson University (Toronto) and George Eastman House (Rochester, NY)

FILM PRESERVATION

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC CONSERVATION

UCLA/Getty Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation -- M.A. program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation

Other Programs

• RIT Image Permanence Institute's Preserving Photographs in a Digital World workshop
• Cornell and ICPSR's Digital Preservation Management workshop
• Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and California Rare Book School
• Paper and Book Intensive

Directories

Preservation Education Directory, 8th edition
A comprehensive directory of preservation education opportunities made available by ALA's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Division. Last updated in 2002.