The Library of Congress offers free introductory preservation workshops for the public to share basic preservation information and practical advice for caring for personal collections, and to raise awareness of preservation issues for both family heirlooms and for our public, national collections. Most workshops occur during National Preservation Week (annually at the end of April) and during the Library's National Book Festival (annually at the end of summer) and are varied to cover different types of materials, such as books, paper, photographs, and digital files.
Upcoming Programs
No announcements at the present time.
Past Programs
Every year during the last week in April, libraries all across the U.S. celebrate National Preservation Week, an initiative of the American Library Association to highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our personal and shared collections.
National Preservation Week 2013. Special focus in 2013 on our military families and the challenges for preserving correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks -- both in traditional and digital form.
National Preservation Week 2012. Programs on preserving books, documents, and other paper-based family treasures, preserving digital files, and a screening of a special Library of Congress photofilm.
