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The SAA Archivists of Religious Collections Section presents a Lunch and Learn: Environment, storage, and integrated pest management

Monday, September 18, 2023 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join two conservators for an introduction to the basics of preserving archives: environment, storage furniture and materials, and integrated pest management.

Register here: Link for Zoom registration here<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C0wKrBKyRRu9jwT2hFaq4w>

This webinar will be recorded.

Holly Fiedler is archivist for the Sisters of St. Francis, Sacred Heart Community in Denver, Colorado, and board member for the Franciscan Central Archive whose vision is a sustainable archival repository for Franciscan congregations. She is also a board member of the Chicago Collaborative Archive Center whose mission is to create a collaborative archive in Chicago. Holly has worked in archives for twelve years, two years in museum collection management, and fourteen years in conservation. She has a Master of Art Conservation, three Bachelors of Science, and is certified with the Society of American Archivists as a Digital Archives Specialist. Her primary interests are in preservation of history and community legacy, collaboration to enable sustainability of collections, and accessibility to carry knowledge into the future.

Upon completion of undergraduate studies in anthropology and art history at York University in Toronto, Iona McCraith completed a three year program to train as a conservator at Algonquin College, Ottawa. This was followed by a one-year internship at the Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa. She also has a certificate from the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles in Care of Historic Photographs and a certificate in Preventive Conservation from ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) in Rome. Since 2000 Iona has maintained a private practice as a heritage consultant and archival materials conservator for governments, private sector corporations, non-profit organizations, heritage institutions and private collectors. During this time until 2022 she also worked for the Archives Association of Ontario, first as the Preservation Advisor, then as Archives Advisor.



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