Disaster Preparedness and our Cultural Heritage and Collections

The Blue Shield is a network of committees of dedicated individuals across the world that is:“committed to the protection of the world’s cultural property, and is concerned with the protection of cultural and natural heritage, tangible and intangible, in the event of armed conflict, natural- or human-made disaster.”The name Blue Shield comes from the UNESCO 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which specifies a blue shield as the symbol for marking protected cultural property.

Blue Shield Australia

Workshops raising awareness of disaster preparedness and response for heritage collections including digitisation and digital collections.

Hetzel Lecture Theatre, State Library of South Australia

Two ½ day workshops raising awareness of disaster preparedness and response for heritage collections.The workshops will offer advice on decision making frameworks and techniques, including grants you can access to protect heritage collections and raise awareness of cultural heritage networks you can join.This year the workshops will focus on the benefits of assessing the significance of your collections, how to digitise your collections and raise awareness of cultural heritage networks you can join and participate.13 October of each year is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which promotes a global culture of risk awareness, disaster preparedness and disaster reduction. Australia has experienced significant natural disasters which have affected cultural heritage and collections. As we approach the 2022-2023 Australian disaster season it is timely to reflect and look at what we can practically put in place to safe guard our collections into the future.Partnering with Blue Shield Australia, cultural institutions, professional associations and supported by the State Library of South Australia and the History Trust of South Australia, these workshops are designed to raise awareness in the cultural heritage community about steps you can take to ensure your collections are cared for into the future.Audience: Suitable for people working with archives, library, and museum collections in a small or community context.

Workshop 19.30 for a 9.45 start9.45 -10.00am Welcome, Introductions and Background10.00 - 11am – Amanda James (History Trust SA/AMAGA)Sharing Significance StoriesLearn through case studies how significance is used in community collections to identify unique objects. Learn about the grants you can access to develop management plans for your cultural heritage collections.11am-1.30pm Dr Susan Marsden, OAM, PHASAWhat is significance? Assessing the significance of heritage objects and collectionsWhat are the significant objects in your collections? This workshop* introduces you to the Significance 2.0 framework and how you can use this framework to really understand what is important in your collections, to aid prioritising collection management, preservation and digitising decisions. _____*Includes a working morning teaWorkshop 22.30pm-4.30pm Catherine Manning, Eleanor Adams and Erin Bridges (History Trust SA/AMAGA)Dodging Digitisation DisastersDigitisation is a valuable way to amplify access to collections and often considered as a way of preserving collections. In a collection disaster situation, the digital copy may be the only representation of the physical object that remains.Learn from the Digitising Collections SA team from the History Trust of South Australia, what to consider before embarking on a digitisation program. Drawing on case studies from the SA History Networks the workshop* will cover selecting items for digitisation, digitisation standards, management, storage and access of digital files.The workshop will also include a show and tell of of the community equipment available and how you can borrow it.___*Includes a working afternoon tea

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