Preparing for the Worst: Disaster Planning for High Density Storage

Presenters

Jennifer Hain Teper, Associate Professor and Head, Preservation and Conservation, University of Illinois Libraries.

Jennifer Hain Teper has served as Head of the Conservation Unit for the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2001 and since 2009 has is also interim head of Preservation. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in August of 2000 with a MLIS and Certificate of Advanced Study in the Conservation and Preservation of Library and Archival Materials. Before her appointment at the University of Illinois she has worked at the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Pittsburgh Library, the New York Botanical Gardens Library, and the University of Kentucky Audio-visual archives. She has had the (un)fortunate experience of being involved in disaster recovery from a fire, several floods or pipe bursts, and two large mold outbreaks.

Roberta Pilette, Director, Preservation Department, Yale University Library

Roberta Pilette has been in library preservation for 25 years. Pilette has been head of conservation labs at Columbia University Libraries and the New-York Historical Society Library. She taught conservation courses at the University of Texas at Austin’s Preservation and Conservation Studies program and has been an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University and Palmer School of Library & Information Science, C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University. She co-edited Preservation: issues & planning with Paul Banks. She has been director of preservation at Yale University Library for more than eight years.