With the 2025 Annual Meeting in Minneapolis just two weeks away, the Preventive Care Network officers have been busy reading abstracts and making our own schedules for the week. Here are some sessions we’re particularly excited about from a preventive care perspective that we think all attendees should check out!
Pre-Session Seminar: A Long Time Coming: Revising the AIC Ethics Core Documents
Wednesday May 28 1:00PM - 3:00PM CDT
In this session, members of the core group of the AIC Ethics Core Documents Review Task Force will present the process followed to revise the AIC Code of Ethics, Guidelines for Practice, and Commentaries, and will host a discussion on this process. This event is free and open to all attendees.
PCN Session: Growing Preventive Care: Sharing Our Stories
Thursday May 29 2:00PM - 5:30PM CDT
This session will focus on preventive care professionals' stories related to individual expectations and realities faced when working in this burgeoning field. Speakers will address the intricacies of our complicated profession and how our collaborations with other professions have shaped our decision-making.
Joint ASG/PCN Session: Caring for Collections and Historic Buildings in a Changing Environment
Friday May 30 8:30AM - 12:00PM CDT
This joint Architecture Specialty Group and PCN session will address, examine, and discuss ongoing collaborations about the care and maintenance of historic buildings when coupled with preventive care of collections, practical sustainable approaches, the impacts of new innovative materials and environmental systems, and challenges in planning for care of collections. The session will be followed by a luncheon panel discussion focusing on the Joint AIC/APT Charter on the Preservation of Historic Structures and Artifacts (New Orleans Charter).
Concurrent General Session: Lighting the Way: Museum Illumination Policies
Friday May 30 2:00PM - 3:30PM CDT
This session, co-sponsored by the Research and Technical Studies Specialty Group (RATS) and the Microfade Testing Working Group, will examine the challenges of assigning collection item lifetimes and setting institutional lighting policies.
Concurrent General Session: Stumbling Towards Sustainability: Stories about Implementation
Saturday May 31 8:15AM - 10:20AM CDT
The conservation community recognizes the urgency of centering environmental sustainability in collections stewardship. In our individual practices and institutions, the learning curve for applying environmentally sustainable preventive care methods can be steep. This session’s speakers will share stories about team efforts to enact sustainable solutions for collecting institutions. The session will end with a panel discussion where attendees will be invited to share their own experiences.
Library and Archives Discussion Group - Managing Existing Mold on Library and Archives Collections
Saturday May 31 10:30AM - 12:00PM CDT
The 2024 LACDG session in Salt Lake City focused on acquisitions processes in libraries and archives, from the initial decision to acquire materials to receiving them and integrating them into our collections. One subject that garnered a lot of discussion was mold that comes to us on newly acquired books, papers, and beyond. The overwhelming interest in this topic inspired this year's discussion group theme. We will have three presentations from our colleagues who are actively working to tackle the problem of mold that we bring into our collections.
Objects Session: Mercury: A Collection Component - A Panel Discussion
Saturday May 31 2:00PM - 3:30PM CDT
This joint session between PCN and the Objects Specialty Group will acquaint participants with the range of collection items containing mercury as an intrinsic component, and will help initiate discussions among conservators about hazards, handling, and access. Panelists will present brief case studies to provide examples of risk management, exposure assessments, and handling protocols to control risks associated with these collection items. This will be a 90-minute panel of short presentations followed by audience discussion.
Are you presenting in a session we didn’t mention here that you think those interested in preventive care should check out? Share it in the comments below!
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