Webinar Series: Best Practice for Using the IPI Preservation Metrics to Assess Risk in Organic Collections
Submitted by Marina Herriges on 16 Apr 2025
Dates: April 24 and May 8 2025
Time: 1:00-2:00pm EDT
Presenter: Marvin Cummings
Last day to register: April 17, 2025
Audience
This webinar series is designed for collections and facilities staff responsible for evaluating environmental data collected in collections spaces. It will be of particular interest to collections professionals using eClimateNotebook to manage and interpret environmental data.
Description
When evaluating a collection space environment, one of the primary questions to address is: how can I quantify the risks to my collection? The IPI environmental metrics for decision-making, Preservation Metrics, were first developed in the 1990s to help collections care specialists 1) account for the complexities between deterioration of collection materials and their environmental exposure and 2) to provide balanced approximations of the risks posed by particular storage and display environments. This two-part webinar series serves an introduction to using the IPI Preservation Metrics to evaluate and assess collection risks.
Team Participation Encouraged
In collecting institutions an environmental management team that includes both collections and facilities staff can create a structure to environmental management that includes regular meetings of collections and facilities staff to review data, discuss strategy, plan for changes, and generally inform each other about what is going on in their respective roles. For this webinar series we suggest team participation and encourage facilities and collections staff to attend the webinar sessions together.
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About IPI
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is a preservation research center in the College of Art and Design at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. IPI achieves its mission to support and inform the preservation of cultural heritage collections through applied research, the development of practical preservation resources and tools, professional-level education and training programs, and consulting and materials testing services. As a non-profit research center, IPI depends on private and public philanthropy to fund its research program. Institutions that use IPI preservation products and consulting and testing services further support IPI's mission.
Learn more about IPI at: https://www.