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Disasters Happen: Preparation & Response Training Conference Coming Soon

  •  Attend to Meet Iowa Experts and Resource People
  • For archivists, administrators, city clerks, county recorders, conservators, curators, genealogists, librarians, museum employees, registrars, volunteers, and emergency responders of all types.

When:  April 19 & 20, 2012

Where:  African American Museum of Iowa, 55 12th Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Registration – $30 each day or $50 for both days (lunch included).  Lunch cannot be guaranteed after April 10.

Registration deadline:  April 10, 2012

For conference details or to download a printable flyer, click here

DIRECTIONS

Directions to the African American Museum of Iowa, 55 12th Avenue, SE, Cedar Rapids, IA
From I-380 Traveling North:
Take exit 18 toward Wilson Ave SW/Czech and Slovak Museum (0.2 mi); merge onto 3rd St SW (0.4 m);
turn right onto 16th Ave SW (0.3 mi); slight left toward 12th Ave SE (0.1mi); continue straight onto
12th Ave SE (0.4 mi); turn right onto 1st St SE (62 ft); turn right; African American Museum of Iowa is on the left.

From I-380 Traveling South:

Take exit 20A toward US-151 BUS/1st St E/Downtown (0.2 mi); turn left onto 1st St NE/B Ave NE
Continue to follow 1st St NE  (0.1 mi); take the 1st right onto 1st Ave E (0.2 mi); take the 1st left onto
1st St SW (0.7 mi); slight left onto C St SW (0.3 mi); turn left onto 12th Ave SE (0.4 mi);
take the 1st right onto 1st St SE (62 ft); turn right;  AAMI will be on the left (75 ft).

 
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Posted by on March 12, 2012 in Uncategorized

 

DISASTERS HAPPEN: LEARN HOW TO PREPARE FOR AND RESPOND TO LIFE’S LITTLE SURPRISES

 

Flooding In Cedar Rapids Iowa

Preparation & Response Training Conference

  •  Attend to Meet Iowa Experts and Resource People
  • For archivists, administrators, city clerks, county recorders, conservators, curators, genealogists, librarians, museum employees, registrars, volunteers, and emergency responders of all types.

When:  April 19 & 20, 2012

Where:  African American Museum of Iowa, 55 12th Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Registration – $30 each day or $50 for both days (lunch included).  Lunch cannot be guaranteed after April 10.

 Registration deadline:  April 10, 2012

For conference details or to download a printable flyer, click hereFor conference details or to download a printable flyer, click here

For a printable registration form, click here

 

 
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Posted by on February 25, 2012 in Uncategorized

 

ICPC Professional Development Scholarships Available

Program: The Iowa Conservation and Preservation Consortium (ICPC) is offering reimbursement scholarships of up to $500 to individuals wishing to attend the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation or who wish to take an online course through Northern States Conservation Center.

Requirements: Eligible applicants are Iowa residents or college students in Iowa who are working or who have worked in a museum, historical society, library, archive, genealogical society library, government record office, or other institution that preserves the history and culture of Iowa. Eligible applicants must be an individual member of the ICPC, or from an organization that has an institutional membership with ICPC. Recipients are required to provide a report of their experience for the ICPC website and provide either a “tip sheet” or do a presentation at an upcoming SOS (Save our Stuff) or other educational opportunity for the ICPC membership.

 Award: ICPC will award a $500 reimbursement scholarship. This simply means the successful applicant will pay for, take the class, and then turn in verification of their attendance to the ICPC in order to receive the reimbursement award.

 Website Addresses: Campbell Center – www.campbellcenter.org

 Northern States Conservation Center – www.museumclasses.org

 Application Deadline is May 1, 2012

Download scholarship application hereICPC_2012 Scholarships

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Posted by on February 6, 2012 in Uncategorized

 

DISASTERS HAPPEN CONFERENCE

There have been 14 Federally Declared Disasters in Iowa since the Flood of 2008 and countless small ones.  Roofs leak, pipes burst, and sewers back up.  Who Ya Gonna Call???

Attend the Disasters Happen Conference for preparation & response training and to meet Iowa experts and resource people

When:  April 19 & 20, 2012

Where:  African American Museum,

55 12th Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

For archivists, administrators, city clerks, county recorders, conservators, curators, genealogists, librarians, museum employees, registrars, volunteers, and emergency responders of all types.

More information will be posted soon.

 

 
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Posted by on January 23, 2012 in Uncategorized

 

Preservation Destination

Thanks to all who made the 2011 ICPC Preservation Destination a success. Look here for information on the 2012 Preservation Destination, which will be held in the Dubuque, Iowa area.

 
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Posted by on January 23, 2012 in Uncategorized

 

Preservation Destination!

Save this Date – September 15, 2011! 

New this fall for all members of ICPC – Preservation Destination! 

We plan on this becoming an annual day event for members in the future as well.

On Thursday, September 15, 2011 a special day tour is planned at the Iowa Gold Star Military Museum and Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum. See addresses below. There are no addmittance fees but free will donations are accepted at both establishments.

You will need to bring a current picture ID for admittance for the Iowa Gold Star Military Museum near Johnston and allow about 15-20 minutes to pass through security. Our morning tour (9:30-11:30+) will be spent there learning about the care/maintenance/preservation of panoramic photos, small firearms, uniforms and flags, and tanks and other metal equipment.

Lunch will be on our own and by 1 we will congregate again at the Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum in Ankeny for our 2 hour tour. We will be seeing open cockpit planes and the largest flying models in the world. For those interested in genealogy you will find a treasure of information in the files of newspapers of local World War II heroes and records of the crashes of that time.

We’ll be learning about the care and maintenance of metals, cloth, paper, photographs, and new possibilities of places for research for the history of families and area people. We encourage you to come and enjoy this perk that your membership provides.

Please notify Lucy David, ldavid114@aol.com, of your plan to attend by Labor Day, September 5. This will help us to give our hosts a more accurate count to know how to set up for us in advance. Thank You!

Iowa Gold Star Military Museum

7105 Northwest 70th Avenue

Johnston, IA 50131-1824

(515) 252-4531

Iowa Aviation Heritage Museum

3704 Southeast Convenience Boulevard

Ankeny, IA 50021

(515) 964-4515

If you are not a member yet, it is not too late to join! The cost for a year’s worth of benefits, including our Preservation Destination event is only $30. Join today by contacting Lucy David, ICPC Administrative Assistant, ldavid114@aol.com.

ICPC membership categories:

• Individual Basic – $30

• Student/Retired – $25

• Individual or Institutional Sustaining – $50-$99

• Individual or Institutional Patron – $100-$249

• Institutional Benefactor – $250-$999

• Institutional Sponsor – $1,000 or more

 

 

 

 

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Don’t Miss The ICPC S.O.S. (Save Our Stuff!) Conference

Dear Friends of ICPC,

There is still time to register for the ICPC SOS on Friday, June 3, at the new location of the Sioux City Public Museum! And there are still spaces in Nancy Kraft’s Mock Disaster Drill and Tom Munson’s Protecting Images Digitally sessions. Registration can be done by email, so let me know if you’d like a space. Send email to ldavid114@aol.com. Payment can be sent or paid at the door!

The sessions include:

Preservation of the Steamboat Bertrand Collection: Dean Knudsen, DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge

Preservation of Musical Instruments: Sarah Richardson, National Music Museum

Mock Disaster Drill: Nancy Kraft, UI Libraries

Protecting Images Digitally: Tom Munson, Sioux City Public Museum

Preserving Tribal Heritage and Artifacts: Wynema Morris, Omaha Tribe of Nebraska

Special Projects Panels: Angela Stanford, Kim Taylor, Donna Hoeksema, Nancy Kraft

Tours:  The New, Permanent History Exhibit at the Sioux City Public Museum
and Behind the Scenes Tours – storage rooms, conservation lab, work rooms

Please see the brochure and registration form at:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/preservation/News.html

or click here: ICPC S.O.S. brochure and registration form

Cost of SOS:  $50 ICPC members, $65 non-members – fee includes lunch.

Discount:  3 participants from one institution or department for $110 (members) or
$140 (non-members).  (This is the “three for the price of two” plus $10 for the third lunch)

 
 

STEWARDS OF CULTURAL PROPERTY PLAN

WE NEED YOUR HELP to develop a statewide plan to help the stewards of cultural property plan for the protection and recovery of collections in the event of emergencies. Please click on here to fill out a brief survey.

 
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Posted by on May 19, 2011 in News & Events