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2025 Poster Session
Posters will be on display in the AIC Exhibit Hall on Thursday, May 29, and Friday, May 30. Poster authors will be at their poster for a Q&A session on Friday, May 30, at 3:30pm.


Banner photo by Lane Pelovsky, Courtesy of Meet Minneapolis 
Friday May 30, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
Videos are a powerful way to communicate conservation. They can be successfully used to educate and inform newcomers to our field including members of the public, cultural heritage professionals and conservation students. Also, videos can enable us to advocate for our roles and workplaces, as well as the cultural heritage we work with. Conservation lends itself so well to video formats that whenever we do share our work in this way, people are eager to engage with us and our information.

Making videos a collaborative process, in both the production and sharing phases, increases their impact. Using three case studies, I explore how different audiences engage with conservation information shared across video formats and platforms; and analyse the success of collaboration at different stages of the production process.

Case Study 1: A Conservation YouTube channel – communicating with the public during Lockdown. In 2020 I created a conservation specific YouTube channel to educate and reach non-conservation audiences about our profession; and to provide a counterpoint to extreme restoration videos that are becoming more prevalent on social media. By collaborating with the audience interacting with each video, I iteratively developed subsequent videos that addressed recurring questions. As a result, the videos have withstood the test of time.

Case Study 2: One video, three teams – inducting professionals at the National Library of Australia. Collection Care collaborated with two key teams at the National Library of Australia and an external production company for this project to create a video induction for new and existing staff who work in a heritage building with heritage collections. Collaborative script development and filming led to a video that upskilled staff and embedded preventive conservation practices in the Library.

Case Study 3: Educating future professionals – developing videos at the University of Melbourne. In the Master of Cultural Materials Conservation course, videos have been created for treatment subjects to assist students to develop essential hands-on conservation skills and document their work. Collaborating with teaching team, the aim is to build a comprehensive library of video resources, tailored to the course and incorporating recent developments in the field to enhance students learning. The next stage is to collaborate with students themselves to incorporate their work into the videos.

Despite the differing contexts, resources and audiences that resulted in quite distinctive videos, these case studies highlight how diverse and adaptable video communication is for our important conservation messages and stories. Whilst there are different decisions to discuss for sharing videos internally versus on open platforms; there are interesting correlations between the legal, cultural and professional considerations in their creation and utilisation. Ultimately these videos show the power of working with others to create engaging conservation videos for different educational needs, audiences and platforms. Videos are versatile tools that can be used for education and advocacy. This justifies video creation becoming part of a conservator’s tool kit, and for conservators to collaborate with others to create important content about our profession.
Speakers
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Lucilla Ronai

Conservator, Australian National Maritime Museum
Lucilla Ronai completed her Masters of Cultural Materials Conservation (paper conservation) in 2014 at the University of Melbourne. Upon graduating, Lucilla worked at the State Library of Queensland as an Exhibitions/Paper Conservator for ten months. She then moved internationally... Read More →
Authors
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Lucilla Ronai

Conservator, Australian National Maritime Museum
Lucilla Ronai completed her Masters of Cultural Materials Conservation (paper conservation) in 2014 at the University of Melbourne. Upon graduating, Lucilla worked at the State Library of Queensland as an Exhibitions/Paper Conservator for ten months. She then moved internationally... Read More →
Friday May 30, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 229 W 43RD St New York, NY 10036 USA

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