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Cornelia Posch
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working on my dissertation on public libraries & disasters | optimistic most of the time | books & crafts & baking | Austrian in the US | #firstgen
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February 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Been reading a lot about craftivism lately.
Tonight, watching #TheReidOut for the last time, hearing the fantastic @joyannreid.bsky.social and colleagues talk abt what each of us can do in this mess, I suddenly knew what my first piece would be.
We'll miss you!

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A piece of multicolored cloth in purple and blue-green hues in an embroidery hoop, with the word "joy" stitched in white-gold thread.
February 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Come volunteer with me!
Red and white background, with white, mint, and black font, a QR code in the bottom right corner. Transcript: Join us! The American Institute for Conservation EMERGENCY COMMITTEE is looking for VOLUNTEERS. Are you interested in all things emergency preparedness, response, and recovery of cultural heritage? Are you a heritage professional - broadly speaking? Scan the QR code to apply by March 3, 2025!
February 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Just finished the wonderful "I would meet you anywhere" by Susan Kiyo Ito.
Thank you, @thesusanito.bsky.social for sharing your journey, and thank you @notalegalrecord.net for mentioning the book in a post a while ago.
I learned so much and felt so much.
I would meet you anywhere. A Memoir, by Susan Kiyo Ito. Book cover featuring white paper cranes and a twig on blue ground.
February 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Meet our Members - Emergency Committee. Hamada Sadek Kotb, with the EC since 2023. Green background, a picture of a man with short dark hair, wearing a blue sweater, a brown jacket, and a backpack. Hamada is Associate Professor in the Conservation Department at Fayoum University in Egypt.
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Meet our Members - Emergency Committee. Joan Bacharach, with the EC since 2022. Yellow background, a picture of a woman with short red-blonde hair, wearing a colorful sweater and glasses. Joan is Senior Curator for the Museum Management Program at the U.S. National Park Service.
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Meet our Members - Emergency Committee. Elizabeth Drolet, with the EC since 2022. Purple background, a picture of a woman with shoulder length brown hair, wearing a black blouse, red lipstick, and glasses. Elizabeth is an objects conservator in private practice.
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Meet our Members - Emergency Committee. Amy Zavecz, with the EC since 2023. Mint background, a picture of a woman with shoulder length black hair, wearing a white sweater and a backpack. Amy is a contractor in the Preparedness and Response in Collections and Emergencies (PRICE) program and part of the Professional Development Committee at the Smithsonian National Collections Program.
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Meet our Members - Emergency Committee. Cornelia Posch, with the EC since 2022. Purple background, a black and white picture of a woman with her hair in a bun, wearing earrings and a scarf. Cornelia is Graduate Research Assistant at the Disaster Research Center in Newark, Delaware.
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Meet our Members - Emergency Committee. Irene Karsten, with the EC since 2023. Red background, a picture of a woman with brown hair, wearing a dark sweater and glasses. Irene is Senior Preventive Conservation Advisor at the Canadian Conservation Institute.
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Meet our Members - Emergency Committee. Kim Hoffman, with the EC since 2021. Ochre background, a picture of a woman with light brown hair, wearing a green blouse and glasses. Kim is Digital Curation & Preservation Librarian at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Meet our Members - Emergency Committee. Ivey Barker, with the EC since 2023. Mint background, a picture of a woman with blond hair in a ponytail, wearing a pink blouse, a grey blazer, and glasses. Ivey is Mellon Fellow in Photograph Conservation at the Cleveland Museum of Art (and, more recently, now working at CCAHA in Phildadelphia).
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Meet our Members - Emergency Committee. Melissa Miller, with the EC since 2021. Green background, a picture of a woman with long brown hair, wearing a pink sweater and glasses. Melissa is Collections Emergency Program Specialist at the Smithsonian National Collections Program.
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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JOIN US!
Are you a cultural heritage professional interested in emergencies?
The AIC Emergency Committee accepts new VOLUNTEERS!

Apply by March 3: www.culturalheritage.org/membership/volunteer/volunteer-opportunities

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PLUS: Check out the 🧵 to meet our members!
Call for Volunteers EMERGENCY COMMITTEE Position: Member (4 positions open, 2-3 hours/month) Term: 3-year terms with an option to renew for 1-year as an emeritus member. Description: The Emergency Committee seeks 4 people with diverse expertise to join our interdisciplinary team. We encourage applicants who are concerned about the increasing risk of loss of cultural heritage due to natural hazards and other emergencies. Volunteers should be available to attend one hour-long virtual meeting per month plus at least 2 hours work on projects each month. The positions are open to all AIC members. Who we are: The Emergency Committee aims to promote awareness and increase member knowledge in the areas of emergency preparedness, response, and recovery for cultural heritage. Members participate in one of the subcommittees, Programs & Partnerships, Outreach, and AIC EC Wiki / Zotero Library. Project work often involves collaboration with other committees and networks, outside experts and other allied professionals. In our meeting, we also discuss issues, initiatives and events related to emergency and disaster response. Projects for 2025-2026: • Plan and deliver programming for the 2026 Montreal Annual Meeting. • Write, edit and create content for AIC News and social media. • Review and update of the AIC EC Zotero Library of emergency planning and response resources Requirements: AIC membership Questions: Questions can be sent to current co-chairs Cornelia Posch (posch@udel.edu) and Irene Karsten (irene.karsten@pch.gc.ca). Deadline: March 3, 2025
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Angelenos, you can get help at the library!
FEMA staff is available to help with applications at 7 locations: La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Live Oak, San Fernando, San Gabriel, Temple City, and West Hollywood.
Sun 12 and Mon 13, 9 am to 5 pm.
More info at the LA County Library website.
Screenshot of info reported in post.
January 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

20/20
Cover of Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli. White text on a colorful background in shades of yellow, orange, red, and purple, featuring a sequence of mountainous landscapes and women, lying supine, shown in profile.
December 16, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

19/20
Cover of In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote. White and grey text on a collage of black & white photographs showing the author and some of the subjects of the story.
December 15, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

18/20
Cover of Heat Wave. A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, by Eric Klinenberg. White, orange, and red writing on a photograph featuring a cityscape with a highrise in the front, in sepia tones and a foggy effect.
December 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Job opening @ HENTF - Heritage Emergency National Task Force, a great FEMA-Smithsonian partnership.
US citizens only.
December 13, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

17/20
Cover La rivoluzione della luna (The revolution of the moon), by Andrea Camilleri. White text on dark blue background, at the center is the face of a woman, a part of a painting by the painter Parmigianino (circa 1525).
December 12, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

16/20
Cover of Es geht uns gut (We are fine), by Arno Geiger. White and blue text on a historic photograph (ca. 1980) of a young boy sitting on a low stone wall, in the background flowers, tall trees, some people, and an Austrian flag.
December 11, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

15/20
Cover of To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Black writing on a background image in black and sepia tones, featuring a papercut image of a young person standing under a leaf-less, a bird sitting on one of the branches.
December 7, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

14/20
Cover of Happening, by Annie Ernaux. Plaque stating: The Nobel Prize 2022. Lime green and white text on a photograph in orange-sepia tones, featuring a young woman with short hair in a dress or nightgown, sitting on a chair next to a bed and in front of a window.
December 6, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

13/20
Cover of Accabadora, by Michela Murgia. White and blue text on a black background, featuring the face of a girl seen behind five burning candles.
December 5, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

12/20
Cover of The Warmth of Other Suns. The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson. White and light yellow text on a photograph in sepia tones, featuring a multi-story building with many people standing on the front steps, on a first-floor balcony and in open second-floor windows.
December 5, 2024 at 2:28 AM