COVID 19 Resources for Museums, Libraries and Archives
In keeping with our commitment to aiding archives in crisis, we are providing resources and programming in this current moment of crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. We are also collecting community responses to COVID 19 in southwestern Louisiana. If you are interested in donating digital material related to your COVID 19 experience, please contact guilbeaucenter@louisiana.edu
COVID-19 has changed the world as we know it, both on a large scale and locally, temporarily closing special collections and antiquarian bookshops where many of us work. While the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic are uncertain, antiquarian booksellers and curators are continuing to feature collections—virtually, if not physically—even while institutions make difficult decisions about current and future funding streams for maintaining and building their physical collections.
Cultural heritage institutions are coping with many challenges as the world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic. While collections are not directly at risk, the the pandemic complicates their care. In this webinar organized by the Ontario Museum Association, Irene Karsten shares information and recommendations compiled by the Canadian Conservation Institute to help those responsible for heritage collections. Questions about collections contamination, disinfection of museum spaces, and risks to collections during long-term shut down are addressed, based on the evolving collective knowledge of the public health and infectious disease research communities merged with what we know about keeping collections safe.
Dr. David Berendes and Dr. Catherine Rasberry from the Centers for Disease Control presented an overview of the CDC's guidance for community settings and environmental disinfection, and a discussion of how libraries, archives, and museums can help mitigate COVID-19 when working with paper-based, circulating, and other types of collections.
OECD webinar on "Coronavirus (COVID-19) and museums: impact, innovations and planning for post-crisis" held on April 10, 2020, in collaboration with ICOM. This webinar gathered representatives of the museum community, local and national governments to review: - The short and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on museums - The innovative solutions put in place by museums across countries - The policy supports put in place by national and local governments to alleviate the short and long-term effects of the COVID-19 crisis on museums and their broader ecosystems.