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State and Regional Preservation Organizations

NJLA History & Preservation Section
Members support libraries with local history collection maintenance, archival and preservation needs and advocate for funding for projects.  All types of preservation issues are addressed through workshops and programs.  Your membership is encouraged and is free to NJLA members!

Princeton Preservation Group
Sponsors lectures on a wide range of topic relating to the preservation of cultural artifacts, including but not limited to books, manuscripts, artwork, furniture, photographs, tombstones, Lucy the Elephant, costumes, videotapes, and buildings. Group members include conservators, librarians, archivists, curators, historic preservation specialists, and interested others. Anyone may join.

Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)
Begun in 1972, MARAC is a volunteer, regional consortium of archivists who live and work in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia, and in the District of Columbia.

Regional Alliance for Preservation
Provides information and resources on preservation and conservation for cultural institutions and the public throughout the United States.

Delaware Valley Archivists Group
A professional association for archivists, archives workers and archives students in the greater Philadelphia area with members in southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and southern New Jersey.

Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums
 A not for profit membership organization founded in 1945, that provides museums professionals, organizations, institutions and museum service providers a forum to enhance the image of museums and educate individuals on a array of field specific study and programs. It chiefly represents museum interests in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

PALINET
PALINET is a cooperative membership organization of hundreds of libraries, information centers, museums, archives, and other similar organizations throughout Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and beyond. Since 1936, they have promoted library cooperation and resource sharing, a role growing more important as global technology escalates the pace of information transfer.

Solinet
The Southeastern Library Network is a not-for-profit library cooperative that works in collaboration with many local and international partners. The mission of their Preservation Services is to improve institutions' abilities to maintain long-term, cost-effective access to information resources in both traditional and networked collections. Their Field Services program has been providing education, training, information, and consulting to cultural institutions since 1984.

New Jersey Strategic Historical Records Advisory Board (NJ SHRAB)
Statewide board of archivists that meet to determine policy and planning for statewide collections of historical records.  They have offered excellent programming on archives and preservation for a very modest cost.

New Jersey Digital Highway
Where History, Culture, and Learning Merge.  Your “one stop shop” for New Jersey history and culture from the collections of NJ libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies.

Monmouth County Archives: Elsalyn Palmissano Preservation Papers
Extensive collection of Monmouth County and New Jersey pamphlets, books, clippings and ephemera.

 

 

Last updated: August 19, 2008