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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please excuse any cross-posting.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Registration is open for the webinar "Preparing for Extreme Weather: Fire and Hurricane". It will take on
<b>Thursday, August 18, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM CDT</b>. Please see below for additional details, including a link to registration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The past few years have seen an increase in cultural institutions dealing with various extreme disasters. In this webinar we will feature two examples of extreme weather,
wildfires and hurricanes, and how staff at two institutions dealt with preparation, impact, and ramifications for these common types of extreme weather.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">CZU Lightening Fires of San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties, California August 2020
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Speakers: Kathleen Aston, Collections Manager, Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jenny Daly, Museum Curator I, California State Parks</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In this portion of the webinar Kathleen Aston Collections Manager at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History will discuss emergency plan writing and incorporating lived
experiences into emergency plan improvements, including the importance of the priority object designations, chain of command for decision making, evacuation plans, and staff training as well as community oriented disaster responses including community collections,
programming, and partnerships related to disasters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Her collaborator, Jenny Daly, Museum Curator for the Santa Cruz District of California State Parks, will describe how the state parks responded to the fire including: a
timeline of evacuations, lessons learned, and coordinating the return of evacuated collections after the fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Always Existing Hurricane Season</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Speaker: Chakira Teresa Santiago, Museum Collection Manager, Museum of History, Anthology and Art University of Puerto Rico/Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte Universidad de Puerto Rico</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">For this next section Chakira Teresa Santiago, Museum Collection Manager, Museum of History, Anthology and Art University of Puerto Rico/Museo de Historia, Antropología
y Arte Universidad de Puerto Rico will present an overwhelming (but amazingly simple) summary of effective strategies, important documentation, low budget preparation that have been used for some of the small and mid-size museums on the island of Puerto Rico.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">For more background on the speakers, and to register, please go to
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://connectingtocollections.org/extreme_weather/__;!!DZ3fjg!4RrMjPZifvdcWK6tlKzdV9aKhuC4gz3nWOdJJh_aPkXPfbgK0PYOvqFJ-bbVVlQ5VQsv4h71Ya6AxRe8oHbkPpzOTg8$"><span style="color:black">https://connectingtocollections.org/extreme_weather/</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#26282A">Eric A. Edwards</span><span style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#26282A">Interlibrary Loan Librarian</span><span style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#26282A">Illinois State Library</span><span style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#26282A">Springfield, Illinois 62701-1796</span><span style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#26282A">(217) 558-1928</span><span style="color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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