Creating Cost-Effective Preservation
Environments for Cultural Collections

Registration is Closed

Please email Julie Page at jpage@ucsd.edu to inquire about space availability. If you have any further questions, contact Kathy Krause at krause@plsinfo.org or 650.349.5538

A two-day intensive program sponsored by the California Preservation Program, with support from the Getty Research Institute and the Oakland Museum of California, for archivists, conservators, curators, librarians, and facilities managers responsible for the preservation of collections and the management of collections’ storage facilities.

After years of addressing issues of understanding the impact of environment on deterioration of collections, monitoring HVAC system performance, working with systems to bring performance to design specifications, and tweaking systems to improve energy efficiencies without compromising benefits to the collections, the speakers have developed practical perspectives and approaches to creating and managing HVAC systems to meet collection needs.

In this 2-day program, you will learn:

• How the environment (temperature and humidity) affects the longevity of collections – the power of good environments to extend collection life as well as the power of bad environments to shorten it.
• Ways to specify the proper preservation environment – how to distinguish between ideals and a sensible, cost-effective set of design specifications.
• Basics of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, including strengths and limitations of different types of systems to support a preservation environment.
• Suitability (including reliability) of different system designs for storage of cultural collections and the role of passive systems to achieve preservation goals.
• Current monitoring tools and ways to gather environmental data, including analysis using the IPI Climate Notebook® software.
• How to identify energy savings in HVAC systems without compromising the preservation quality of storage environments.
• Troubleshooting HVAC systems unable to achieve design specifications, and problems and solutions typical of different types of systems.
• Setting up effective communication among the stakeholders, including collections, facilities, and budget managers.

About the Speakers

James M. Reilly, Director of the Image Permanence Institute and professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is well known for his research on the deterioration of nineteenth-century photographic prints, the effectiveness of storage enclosures for imaging materials, and the major causes of image deterioration. Jim has also directed several major projects to develop hardware and software for environmental monitoring, and has been working directly with the Library of Congress, National Museum of Denmark, and the New York Public Library to build environmental monitoring systems and explore opportunities to optimize storage and display conditions.

Peter Herzog of Herzog/Wheeler & Associates is an architect and engineer specializing in energy management process design, technical analysis of energy-consuming processes and systems, troubleshooting and energy conservation planning. He is the author of Redefining Energy Management (MCGraw Hill, 1997), a text on how to achieve energy-efficient operation in buildings. With a background in HVAC systems analysis and performance verification, Peter consults on system monitoring, analysis, and optimization projects to achieve efficient preservation environments. Current work involves the development of data models for communicating environmental information and best practices for improving collection storage conditions.

Registration is Closed

Please email Julie Page at jpage@ucsd.edu to inquire about space availability. If you have any further questions, contact Kathy Krause at krause@plsinfo.org or 650.349.5538