Hi,

Michelle Baker at the SC State Museum 
([log in to unmask]) is organizing the SC museum 
community's hurricane relief efforts.  For museums outside of SC, I 
know that other SEMC reps are doing the same.  If you don't have 
contact information for your state representative, please contact 
Michelle. Her phone number is listed at the end of the message.  Also, 
please crosspost anywhere you think it will help.  

Rickie Good
Sumter County Museum

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Hurricane Relief to Museums
September 8, 2005

SEMC, AALSH and the South Carolina Federation of Museums are among the 
many groups organizing relief efforts for museums and cultural 
institutions affected by Katrina.  This is the first of what will be 
several communications to South Carolina museums and others regarding 
what we need to do.
Supplies are needed immediately.  Below is a list of items needed 
right away by different institutions on the Gulf Coast.  Who gets what 
will be determined by someone else.  Our job is to get the items 
together.  If you can provide any of this from your own inventory, use 
supply money from your budget to buy these items or send cash, it will 
get to the right person. 
1)      ProText ResCube corrugated high density polyethylene boxes
(http://www.protext.net/products/rescube.html)    
 Or some other water resistant boxes or plastic milk crates for 
carrying wet books and other materials
2) Freezer paper on rolls
3) Polyester window screen (48 inch wide) for making drying racks 
after stretching on artist stretcher bars.  Need Anco canvas stretcher 
bars, 6 pcs. each, 20, 30, 40, 60 inch lengths
4) Stapler with monel staples
5) Nitrile gloves
6) Vinyl gloves
7) Blotters, white
8) Large polyethylene yard bags, clear
9) Rolls of 4 mil polyethylene, clear
10) Mylar
10) Waterproof markers
11) 3M Blue painter's masking tape
12) Duct tape
12) Labels with strings
13) Rolls of Scott Rags paper towels
14) Uninked newsprint on rolls (roll ends from a newspaper publisher 
such as N &O)
15) Large photo or bread trays
16) Nylon clothes line
17) Plastic clothes pins
18) 6 foot folding tables or folding saw horses and plywood for tables
19) Sponges, natural latex (as used for smoke removal)
20) Standard cleaning sponges
21) Small buckets
22) Plastic garbage cans of various sizes (5-50 gallons)
23) Work lights with extension cords
24) Rubber pads to keep objects and drying racks off floor
25) Plastic water spray bottles
26) Rolls of cotton
27) Resealable food storage bags
28) Roll of Typar spunbonded polypropylene (3201C-041), actually a 
landscape cover material
29) 6 units of plastic grid shelves which can be assembled on-site
30) wood 2 x 4, 6 foot lengths, 10 pcs.
31) 5 packs of 30 x 40 cardboard, 25 sheets each
32) Assorted tools such as scissors, mat knives, microspatulas, 
scalpel, tweezers, Optivisors, registration forms, clipboards, Bic 
pencils, digital camera with large storage cards, tripod, collapsible 
easel, hammer, hand saw
Second, be thinking about the possibility of providing storage space 
for collections that may have to be loaned (stored) until effected 
museums can safely care for them.  Think about what you can store and 
be specific (20 textile boxes, 50 standard record storage boxes full 
of documents, outdoor sculpture, etc).  
Finally, at some point in the future, we as a museum community may be 
asked to travel to the Gulf Coast or other effected cities to provide 
hands on help and expertise.  It's too early to make those plans but 
be aware that the request will be coming.
For now, start putting together a care package of supply items.  More 
information will follow shortly with drop-off details and a timeframe 
but we do need to move quickly.  
Also, please forward this email to any other appropriate individual or 
list.

Michelle McKee Baker  SEMC REP/SCFM Board 
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