Thousands of historic photos, maps damaged in Parks Canada building flood, Revelstoke, BC

Thousands of historic photos, maps damaged in Parks Canada building flood: This is a Vancouver Sun report about "archival" records stored by Parks Canada in Revelstoke, BC, that were damaged in a flooded building  they leased. The question for me is whether these records were under the control of Library and Archives Canada or was this one of those backoffice archives that exist at all levels of government. What a shame to read about, in particular, the damage and potential loss of so many photographs. I just hope most are duplicates of ones preserved elsewhere.

UK National Heritage Science Strategy released March 02010

The United Kingdom has released its National Heritage Science Strategy as of March 02010. According to the front page of the site, "The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry on Science and Heritage called for the production of a strategy. Work on this has been underway since October 2008 ...." On the Developing the Strategy page of the site, it's stated that "We have deliberately taken a very broad definition of "heritage" in these reports and the strategy which encompasses both movable heritage (museums and art collections, libraries and archives) as well as immovable heritage (archaeological remains, buildings, landscapes and townscape)." The Document Library section is where you'll find the House of Lords report as well as supporting documents, including reports of other "heritage science strategies" produced in the UK.

Conservation OnLine's (CoOL's) new home

Conservation OnLine (CoOL), an amazing resource hosted for many years by Stanford University and which to its shame withdrew its support, has now been fully resurrected by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation at http://cool.conservation-us.org/.