Webcast Now Available
for Living Collections Forum

It’s Alive! Petals to Primates: Preservation Challenges of Living Collections was the third in the series of Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) forums in the Connecting to Collections National Tour. It was organized in partnership with Heritage Preservation and the San Diego Zoo.

This forum addressed issues of pressing concern to the smaller institutions that are stewards of America’s collections of plants and animals including:

• How to stay current on new directions in collections planning and management,
• How to protect collections from natural disasters,
• How to organize and care for the records and photographs that document collections, and
• How to attract funding for collections in tough economic times.

By bringing together the stewards of plant and animal collections, the forum provided a unique opportunity for participants to identify their common ground.

Click here to go to the webcast Web page.