NEWS For Immediate Release April 9, 2013

Contact: Charles Wilt

CHICAGO - For Preservation Week 2013, ALA has created a new section on the Preservation @your Library website focusing on issues that military personnel, their families and their friends encounter when they want to save, document or record their family's military experience.

Librarians who serve this community were asked for information and suggestions based on their interaction with their patrons. Their wonderful feedback has made this new webpage, For Military Families, possible (http://atyourlibrary.org/passiton/military-families). The page features articles and resources. New, print-ready handouts, “Quick Preservation Tips: for Military Families” and Quick Preservation Tips: Take the First Step can be passed on to library patrons for easy reference.

This information is just the tip of the iceberg, and this effort is the beginning of a much longer conversation. To share personal stories that illustrate the importance of saving and preserving meaningful keepsakes for future family members, please share them on the Preservation Week Facebook page. Your stories and examples can encourage military families to take the time to preserve these important memories.

There are additional resources recommended to help librarians who serve military families and veterans on the Preservation Week website.

Preservation Week is grateful to the Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and the Society of American Archivists, Oral History Section for their generous contributions to this project.

Preservation Week is a presentation of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association.

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