Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After
Description: Mission StatementThe Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative supports the preservation needs of Smithsonian audiovisual collections through an innovative, pan-institutional approach. AVMPI Team Initiative Coordinator The team lead for AVMPI by coordinating all preservation program activities, including conservation treatments, collection packing and shipping, metadata