Establishing and Maintaining Emergency Supply Caches
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Ever wonder what the process of setting up an emergency supply cache entails? Rachel Onuf from the Vermont Arts & Culture Disaster Resilience Network (VACDARN) and Adrienne Berney from North Carolina's Cultural Resources Emergency Support Team (CREST) will discuss establishing and maintaining supply caches to support regional response efforts.
Rachel Onuf is the Director of the Vermont Historical Records Program, based at the Vermont State Archives & Records Administration, which seeks to improve public access to and engagement with Vermont historical records and to encourage and facilitate collaborative efforts among Vermont historical records repositories. She serves as a co-lead of the Vermont Arts & Culture Disaster and Resilience Network (VACDaRN), a director of the Collections Care & Conservation Alliance, and as a member of the Northeast Document Conservation Center Advisory Committee.
Adrienne Berney has coordinated the N.C. Department of Natural & Cultural Resources’ Cultural Resources Emergency Support Team (CREST) since 2015. With a background as an objects curator, she joined DNCR in 2010 as a preservation specialist with the Connecting to Collections project and led regional collections care and disaster preparedness workshops statewide. She currently serves as Outreach Coordinator for the State Archives and continues field services to local history organizations through the Traveling Archivist Program and the Federation of N.C. Historical Societies, in addition to CREST response work.
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Support for this program is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Rachel Onuf
Rachel Onuf is the Director of the Vermont Historical Records Program, based at the Vermont State Archives & Records Administration, which seeks to improve public access to and engagement with Vermont historical records and to encourage and facilitate collaborative efforts among Vermont historical records repositories. She serves as a co-lead of the Vermont Arts & Culture Disaster and Resilience Network (VACDaRN), a director of the Collections Care & Conservation Alliance, and as a member of the Northeast Document Conservation Center Advisory Committee. Rachel received her BA from Swarthmore College, an MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Michigan and an MA in American History from the University of Virginia. Past jobs include serving as Roving Archivist for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Director of Archives at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. She taught as an adjunct for Simmons College School of Library and Information Science and worked as an independent consultant for many years.