7th meeting of the National Museum and Services Library Board

The 7th meeting of the National Museum and Services Library Board "will focus on the recently released report A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections. This report is the first comprehensive survey ever conducted on the condition and preservation needs of our nation's collections. The results are both stunning and sobering — 4.5 billion artifacts held by more than 30,000 archives, libraries, museums and other repositories and visited 2.5 billion times a year are threatened by lack of environmental controls, perilous storage conditions, insufficient security and lack of emergency plans" - March 6-7 - Washington, D.C.