About this archived opportunity

The California State Library seeks a partner organization to work with local archives, historical societies, libraries, museums and, when possible, tribal nations to help those entities create written disaster preparedness plans to protect their collections and ensure future public access. The program’s goal is to connect communities holding at-risk collections with the resources needed to protect those collections from destruction and make them available to all Californians. The State Library’s partner organization shall be responsible for: · Hiring and deploying a team of six or more roving Collection Protectors and Heritage Consultants with experience in disaster planning and preparedness to assess local heritage collections, gauge potential risk and identify ways to mitigate risk. · Assisting local cultural heritage entities in creating disaster preparedness plans based on those assessments and ensuring local disaster response agencies are apprised of those plans. · Making recommendations to the State Library on grant awards to local cultural heritage entities that help ensure the workability and effectiveness of their disaster preparedness plans. · Completing approximately 300 disaster preparedness plans each year over the life of the program so that all local heritage organizations without plans have one in place. Applicants are encouraged to review the results of the recent California Cultural Collections Protection Survey, which was taken by more than 450 cultural heritage institutions across California. The survey gathered information about the state of California’s cultural heritage collections and the extent to which institutions prioritize, plan for and resource collection protection.