What an adventure! In mid-May I packed my bag with great excitement, and with a skip in my step headed to Los Angeles on a blissfully unremarkable Qantas flight. Once there I went straight to Pasadena and visited the Huntington Library, Museum of Art, and Botanic Gardens, the Norton Simon Museum, and the USC Pacific
Collaborating on climate change action over Zoom (captured by Nicole Tse 2021). In preparation for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), a number of interested members of the AICCM banded together in October and November 2021 to spread awareness of the role of the conservation profession in mitigating the climate crisis. With
‘Modern Conservation. Modern Constraints. Modern Conveniences’: the theme for the Icon Book & Paper Group 2021 conference (4–7 October), ‘ModCons’ was wholly appropriate for the current climate, with social and environmental issues at the forefront of our minds and increasingly intersecting with conservation practice. While feeling the modern constraints of Lockdown 6.0 in Melbourne, I
In April, the book team at State Library Victoria tuned into the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 18 conference held online by the University of Copenhagen. The seminar presented a range of topics by many international speakers who showcased their work with early printed book and manuscript collections from around the world [...]
Plastics in Peril: Focus on Conservation of Polymeric Materials in Cultural Heritage was a free online conference held on 16–19 November 2020. Bringing together conservators, scientists, collection managers, and researchers, the conference merged two events scheduled for earlier in 2020 that were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic: a conference in Edinburgh organised by the University of Cambridge Museums, and a workshop organised by Leibniz Association of Research Museums [...]
1 Introduction The move towards exclusively online content dissemination has, as recently as this landmark year, become the norm. Indeed, this year has marked the first fully online congress in the history of the International Institute for Conservation (IIC) and is but one of many symposia that has adapted itself to a virtual platform. This
The Preventive Conservation SIG committee would like to share with the AICCM membership the results of the survey that was undertaken recently on the Agents of Change Preventive Conservation Conference in planning for 2021. Taking into consideration the survey results, the current situation in Victoria and the risks associated with a physical conference, the Preventive Conservation SIG has decided that it will develop an online/virtual conference for 2021...
The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) is ‘an international scientific and technical symposium dealing with matters of particular importance to audiovisual archives and archivists’. Every few years, the symposium is organised by various organisations that form the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Association (CCAAA). The 10th JTS, 3–5 October 2019, was held in conjunction with the
Recognising the exceptional professionalism, hard work and innovative practices of Australian conservators is one of AICCM’s most pleasurable duties. This year’s awards, bestowed in a special ceremony at the AICCM conference in Hobart, are testament to the wealth of talent and expertise evident in all levels of the profession. AICCM president MaryJo Lelyveld warmly thanked
