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Jeanne Drewes Jeanne Drewes With over thirty-five years of experience working in the area of disaster planning, response and mitigation my goal is to reduce damage to cultural heritage through thoughtful action prior to a disaster situation. Having created the first workshops in risk management and insurance issues for Libraries and museums my goal now is to use my experience to provide guidance before and after disasters strikes. Awards American Library Association (ALA) Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Section (ALCTS) 2017 Ross Atkinson Life Time Achievement Award. American Library Association ALCTS 2015 Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Award for Preservation. ALA Federal and Armed Forces Libraries Round Table (FALFLRT) Achievement Award, 2015. American Library Association 2012 Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship. American Library Association ALCTS 2010 President Citation Award for Preservation Week. American Library Association ALCTS 2006 President Citation Award for Publications. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) 2019 Scroll of Appreciation for distinguished contribution to IFLA and international librarianship, particularly in the field of preservation and conservation. Advisory & International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Advisory Editorial Committee to the Cultural Heritage Programme, elected, 2015-2017, Boards reelected 2017-2019. IFLA Digital Reunification Working Group, elected 2017-2019. Advisory Committee member, NEH grant “Finding Common Ground” 2017- BMI/LBC voting member for ISO/NISO standards, 2015-2019. Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, Editorial board 2011- ALA ALCTS Paper Series, Editor 2010-2012: changed title to ALCTS Monograph, 2012-2015. ISO/TC 46 Deacidification of paper test Working Group, 2012-2015. ALA ALCTS LRTS Editorial Board, 1999-2003. American Institute for Conservation (AIC) Foundation of the AIC (FAIC) 1 Board Member 2010-2016. Heritage Preservation, Taskforce on Emergency Response, 2006-2009. IMLS Conservation Book Shelf Selection Committee, 2007, Grant Review Panels 2002-2006. Northeast Document Conservation Center, Advisory Committee, 1997-1998; 2002-2003. Southeast Library Network (SOLINET), Preservation Advisory Committee, 2000-2004. Michigan State University, Kresge Art Museum Advisory Committee 2000- 2005; University Collections Council, 1999-2003; 2005-2006; Center For Great Lakes Culture Advisory Committee, 2001-2005. Recent 2006-2019 Library of Congress, Washington DC Professional Chief, Binding and Collections Care Division/ Mass Deacidification. Experience Responsible for preservation of the general collections of approximately 34 million volumes, including binding (contracts and preparation), housing, reformatting, conservation treatment, deacidification of volumes and sheets from special collections; initiated replacement workflow for damaged materials. Responsible for coordination of disaster response and training for federal libraries through FEDLINK, and for regional libraries. Created and Maintain Disaster Mitigation Planning Assistance website http://resources.conservation-us.org/disaster/ 1/99-6/06 Main Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Assistant Director for Access and Preservation. Responsible for preservation of collection of over 5 million volumes. Responsible for collections risk management implementation, emergency response and recovery training. 2004-2006 School of Information, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Adjunct Professor, Library Science. Developed curriculum and taught one graduate course per semester on preservation management, budgets and hiring, special projects, and preservation processes including digital, binding, conservation, environmental monitoring, and disaster recovery. 12/96-1/99 Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Head, Preservation Department. Supervised all preservation activities including collection maintenance, conservation, commercial binding, and disaster preparedness for a collection of nearly 4 million volumes. Responsible for library and university staff training, education, and outreach for preservation; created and maintained content for preservation, and web pages for University and public outreach. Developed resources for disaster response for all libraries in the area in association with the Baltimore Academic Library Consortium. 9/95 - 11/96 Main Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Assistant Preservation Librarian. Supervision and training of staff performing preservation activities; and user 2 education and outreach; environmental monitoring; collections disaster preparedness; created and maintained content for preservation Web pages, monitored and deployed budget resources; developed grant proposals. 1/95-9/95 Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Imaging Project Coordinator. Set up and coordinated a one-time project to digitize and archive images of the entire museum art collection. Responsible for establishing procedures and policies within the project, established quality control for digitization of photographic slides and formatting photo CD images, designed work flow for the project within the flow of usual museum activities, trained other members of the imaging team in ARGUS collections software and procedures. 11/93-8/94 Pittsburgh Regional Library Center, Pittsburgh, PA Preservation Services Manager (Project Manager). Managed NEH grant-funded position to extend preservation education and outreach to the region of western PA, western MD and WV. Responsible for planning, advertising, and conducting preservation workshops on a variety of topics including disaster preparedness, developed new workshops in insurance and risk management, developed environmental monitoring kit for small libraries and archives. 10/92-10/93 Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Mellon Intern for Preservation Administration. Rotated through each Preservation Division department and worked on specific projects including exhibition in main lobby and assisted with disaster recovery after fire in graduate library. 7/89-10/92 Simpson Library, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA Director of Instruction & Access Services. Responsible for public services including Special Collections (Rare Books & Archives), Reference, Circulation, ILL, Government Documents, and Bibliographic Instruction; developed in-house treatment of damaged materials work area. 8/86-7/89 Law Library, Baylor University, Waco, TX Acquisitions/Serials Librarian. Responsible for acquisitions, interlibrary loans, serials, part-time cataloging, and preservation. Developed campus wide exhibit on disaster recovery. Professional American Library Association (ALA), 1985-present Associations CALM (Committee on Archives, Libraries and Museums) 2014- 2017. ALA International Relations Committee, 2000-2002 IRC Subcommittee on Latin America, 2002-2005 IRC Bogle International Travel Fund Subcommittee, 2001-2003 3 ALA President's Committee on Preservation Policy, 1989-1991; PARS revision committee, 2007-2008 International Relations Round Table, 1999-present LIRT PR/Membership Committee, 1989-1991 ALA- Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Section ALCTS Monograph Managing Editor, 2010-2015 ALCTS Publications Working Group 2011-2015 ALCTS Working Group, Preservation Week, Chair 2009-2011 ALCTS elected representative IFLA Preservation & Conservation Section, 2007-2011, Corresponding Member 2012-2013, reelected 2013- ALCTS IRC Committee, 2006-2008 ALCTS Publications Committee, 2004-2006; 2011-2015 ALCTS Esther Piercy Award Jury Committee, 1998-99 PARS/PLMS/RLMS PARS Oral History working group chair, 2016-2018 PARS Service Project Working Group, 2015-2017 PARS Member at Large, 2005-2008, 2015-2018 PARS Program Planning & Publications Committee, 2001-2003, chair 2004-2006 PARS Taskforce: Cooperative Preservation Organizations, 1999- 2002 PARS Secretary, 1994-1995 PARS/PLMS Discussion Group co-chair, 1993-1995; PADG co- chair 1999-2000 PARS Intellectual Access Committee 1997-2001, Chair 2000- 2001 PLMS 1994 Program Committee (co-chair) 1993-1994 PLMS Preservation Management Committee 1992-1994 PLMS Task Force on Staffing Issues 1993-1994 RLMS Committee on Copying 1993-1994 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) 2006-present Strategic Program on Preservation and Conservation (PAC) 2006-present, USA and Canada Regional Center, director 2013- Preservation and Conservation Standing Committee 2007-present; P & C section Newsletter Editor 2008-2011 P & C section Information Coordinator 2013-2015 Chair of Standing Committee 2019-present American Institute for Conservation (AIC) 1993-95; 1999-present Professional Associate status, 2015. FAIC Governing Board Member 2010-2016. 4 National Heritage Responders (NHR), member 2009-present, Hurricane Sandy hot line responder, Puerto Rico phone assistance General Session Organizing Committee 2005 Book and Paper Section, 1999-present Nominating Committee Book and Paper 2005, 2007, 2015 Electronic Media, 2002-present Guild of Book Workers 1993-present Potomac Chapter, 1998-present Midwest Chapter, 1999-present, Co-chair, 2000-2002 Award Nominating Committee, 2012, Chair, 2015 Washington Conservation Guild, 2006-present Michigan Alliance for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Governing Board, 1999-2006, President, 2002-2006. Created Award for community involvement and Angels projects to assist communities
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