Taking Stock Toward Taking Action: A Preservation Plan for the Ashbery Resource Center

FAIN: PG-287516-22

Flow Chart Foundation, Inc., The (Hudson, NY 12534-2419)
Craig Reardon (Project Director: January 2022 to November 2022)
Nina Boutsikaris (Project Director: November 2022 to March 2025)

A general preservation assessment, training for staff in collections care, and preservation supplies to protect materials related to the life and work of American poet, John Ashbery (1927-2017).

This grant will support two complementary activities: First, conservator Anne Hillam will prepare a detailed preservation plan for The Flow Chart Foundation’s Ashbery Resource Center (ARC), the goal of which is to create the first such plan for the repository and archive’s collection. This will be essential to the ongoing maintenance of the collection and guide future preservation efforts. Secondarily, Ms. Hillam will conduct a workshop—“Caring for Collections”—on working with archival materials. This will take place at The Flow Chart Foundation’s Flow Chart Space (or virtually if required due to the pandemic). It will be offered free to regional archives, libraries, historical societies and the general public. Finally, we will purchase essential archival processing and preservation materials.