Preservation Week: April 27 - May 3, 2014

A journal you kept during your freshman year of high school. Letters your parents wrote each other after they first met. The quilt your grandmother made from scraps of family garments. The picture from your first day of kindergarten. These are examples of a person's cultural heritage. 




Preserving historic documents, images and artifacts is not only the purview of museums and library special collections.  Your personal collections matter, and are worth conserving.

The American Library Association partners with other non-profit entities such as the Library of Congress, Institute of Library & Museum Services, as well as corporate sponsors, promotes Preservation Week . 

Preservation Week  "was developed to  promote the understanding and importance of care for personal and community cultural heritage collections, whether they be books, documents, photographs, textiles, paintings, sculptures, furniture and decorative arts or whatever any person or community collects."

For information about preserving your personal and/or family's heritage, sign up for one of these no-cost webinars:

• Low Cost Ways to Preserve Family Archives
• Preserving Scrap Books