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Wed, 02/07/2018

Mold Prevention Webinar Recording Now Available

Earlier this week, DHPSNY Preservation Specialist Gillian Marcus presented Mold: Prevention, Detection, and Response, perhaps our grossest webinar since Gillian's Pest Management presentation last year. This webinar iden…

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Tue, 02/06/2018

NYSL Invites You to #ColorOurCollections

All this week, our partners at the New York State Library, along with libraries and special collections around the world, invite you to #ColorOurCollections. This annual coloring fest encourages both children and adults…

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Thu, 01/25/2018

Cold and Frozen Storage Webinar Recording Now Available

Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday's webinar, Demystifying Cold and Frozen Storage, presented by Barbara Lemmen, Senior Photograph Conservator at CCAHA. This was a very popular session, packed with details on how…

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Tue, 01/23/2018

Reminder: Planning & Assessment Services Applications Now Open

Just before the holidays, we announced our first Planning & Assessment Services application period of 2018. DHPSNY accepts applications year-round, with three review deadlines scheduled throughout the year in the spring,…

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Thu, 01/18/2018

Interview: Rockefeller Archive Center

For the latest chat in our ongoing series, we caught up with Robert Clark, Director of Archives at the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County. The Archive Center houses a number of historic colle…

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Fri, 01/12/2018

Preservation in Exhibits Webinar Recording Now Available

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our first webinar of 2018, Preservation in Exhibits. DHPSNY Archives Specialist Amelia Parks led a very imformative presentation, discussing strategies for planning and installing exh…

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Wed, 01/03/2018

Happy New Year from DHPSNY!

Hello, 2018! It's chilly this week at DHPSNY HQ—not quite as bad as conditions in this photo, but close. Despite the low temperatures, our spirits couldn't be higher as we look ahead to all that we have in store. We ende…

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Thu, 12/21/2017

Interview: FASNY Museum of Firefighting

Earlier this month, we began a new series of brief conversations with library, museum, and archives professionals and volunteers from around New York State. In our latest installment, we caught up with Jamie Quinn, Execu…

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Fri, 12/15/2017

Collection Management Policies Webinar Recording Now Available

With yesterday's Collection Management Policies webinar, this year's schedule of education programs officially drew to a close. As we wrap up 2017, more than 1,200 people from collecting institutions throughout New York…

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Wed, 12/06/2017

Risk Assessment Webinar Recording Now Available

Thanks to everyone who joined us for yesterday’s webinar, Risk Assessment for Collecting Institutions. Samantha Forsko, Preservation Specialist at CCAHA, led our next-to-last session of 2017, which laid out all of the co…

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Fri, 12/01/2017

Interview: The Skyscraper Museum

At DHPSNY, we love to learn as much as we can about collecting institutions of all kinds around the State, and we also enjoy meeting the people behind the scenes who work to carefully document and preserve the State’s ri…

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Tue, 11/28/2017

Final Deadline Extension: Participate in Our Statewide Survey!

The deadline to complete DHPSNY's annual Statewide Survey has been extended one last time to Friday, December 3rd, and we want to hear from you! This important survey was developed to identify urgent collections care nee…

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