 
BlueShield Australia & DISACT Symposium 2010:
Disaster Proofing Heritage Collections
About the Symposium
Disaster Proofing Heritage Collections - the Blue Shield Australia & DISACT Symposium 2010 is a one-day event on 6 May 2010 at the National Library of Australia (Canberra). It will encompass two themes;
- Regional Disaster Preparedness for Heritage Collections and
- The Risk Management of Energy-Efficient, Heritage Collection Storage.
It will be the highlight event for Blue Shield Australia's annual month-long MayDay campaign to remind the Australian cultural heritage sector to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies. The event will also be promoted as part of Information Awareness Month. The theme of Information Awareness Month 2010 is Access across the generations. The goals of both Blue Shield Australia (BSA) and DISACT are aligned with these themes in that both are committed to the prevention and preparedness planning required to maintain access for as many generations as possible.
The symposium target audience are members of the cultural heritage sector, as well as individuals and organisations working in the risk management, business continuity, insurance and salvage recovery sectors.
The Symposium will include the launch of several new initiatives:
- New Letters of Intent on Cooperative Disaster Preparedness between cultural heritage organisations in the ACT. The heads of the major ACT-based cultural heritage organisations will attend and sign these letters as part of the symposium.
- Blue Shield Australia and DISACT will launch their new websites
- Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), and the Australian division of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMS) will launch their new disaster preparedness guidelines.
About the Organisers
Blue Shield Australia (BSA) is endorsed by the International Committee of the Blue Shield as it's Australian national committee, and promotes the protection of cultural heritage against threats of all kind. BSA aims to contribute to efforts to prepare the Australian community to respond to such threats, and are particularly keen to encourage emergency preparedness in all cultural heritage organisations, including archives, galleries, libraries, museums and heritage places. May is a special month for BSA because it's the time when BSA promotes MayDay, an annual campaign to stimulate emergency preparedness by cultural heritage organisations. See BSA's website for further details: http://www.blueshieldaustralia.org.au
The Disasters ACT Network (DISACT) brings together the ACT's cultural heritage organisations under an agreement on cooperative disaster preparedness for their collections. DISACT is celebrating its first decade of such collaborative activities and as such provides support and resources to Federal, State and regional organisations. See DISACT's website for further details: http://www.anbg.gov.au/disact/index.html
Symposium Program, Speakers and Abstracts
Symposium Reviews
The Blue Shield Australia & DISACT symposium 2010 was sponsored by Steamatic 
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