Protecting Archives from Disasters | Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in a Changing Climate

How can archives, libraries, and museums protect their collections from natural disasters, extreme weather, and climate change-related threats? This recorded webinar explores disaster preparedness and risk management for archival institutions, providing practical strategies for safeguarding historical records, artifacts, and cultural heritage materials.

Learn how climate change is increasing risks such as flooding, wildfires, extreme temperatures, and humidity fluctuations—and what steps archivists and collection managers can take to mitigate damage, create disaster response plans, and ensure long-term preservation.

Key topics include:
✔️ Disaster preparedness for archives, libraries, and museums
✔️ Assessing climate-related risks to archival collections
✔️ Emergency response and recovery strategies for historical materials
✔️ Long-term preservation planning in the face of climate change

This webinar is essential for archivists, preservation specialists, museum professionals, and cultural heritage stewards looking to develop proactive disaster response plans and ensure that historical collections remain protected for future generations.

Resources

Archives

RepoData project, https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ce11ef66b3b2471c83daf3fa99a27c29

Society of American Archivists information brief on archives and the environment, https://www2.archivists.org/statements/information-brief-archives-and-the-environment

Samantha Winn, “Our Monstrous Archives: Memory and the End of Time,” https://medium.com/on-archivy/our-monstrous-archives-memory-and-the-end-of-time-d439359ca5f2

Samantha Winn, “Dying Well in the Anthropocene: On the End of Archivists,” https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/107

Eira Tansey, A Green New Deal for Archives, https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/a-green-new-deal-for-archives/

Archivists Responding to Climate Change, http://projectarcc.org
Keeping History Above Water, https://historyabovewater.org/

Pendergrass, Keith L., Walker Sampson, Tim Walsh, and Laura Alagna. 2019. “Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation.” The American Archivist 82 (1): 165–206, https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/40741399
Current Events

“Vermont farmers are urged to document crop losses from flooding,” AP News, https://apnews.com/article/farms-flooding-vermont-03646bd9a088bbfa1bab623c08ff9fa1

“A tiny pest helped stoke this year’s devastating wildfires,” National Geographic, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bark-beetles-helped-stoke-2020-devastating-wildfires

Living Planet Report 2022, World Wildlife Federation: https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-US/

International Union for the Conservation of Nature, “Extinction Crisis Continues Apace,” [archived November 17, 2009]: https://web.archive.org/web/20091119160804/https://www.iucn.org/?4143/Extinction-crisis-continues-apace

Lourdes Medrano, “This Tiny Desert Raptor Could Soon Regain Federal Protection,” updated July 23, 2023, Audubon.org https://www.audubon.org/news/this-tiny-desert-raptor-could-soon-regain-federal-protection

Remy Tumin, “After a Flood, Saving Appalachia’s History Piece by Piece,” August 7, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/us/kentucky-floods-appalshop-recovery.html
📌 Watch now to learn how to build a resilient archive and safeguard cultural heritage from climate-related disasters!
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