PRESS RELEASE Director of Library Services Launches Online Course and E-Textbook to Preserve Heirlooms January 14, 2011 The Director of Library Services at Johnson C. Smith University has launched an online course, Organizing and Preserving Family and Religious Records: A Step-by-Step Guide and an E-Textbook Preserving Your Records: An Online Training Workshop to help families and religious institutions organize and preserve their heirlooms. Many of you know Monika Rhue has been passionate about archives and helping others preserve their heirlooms since her first training session with HBCU Archives Institute in 2001. Her inspiration for pursuing an archival consultant business was to help ordinary people learn the value of their heirlooms and how these heirlooms help to document the social and personal lives of people, places, and events not found in mainstream society. The materials in the E-Textbook and online course have been practiced on undergraduate students at Johnson C. Smith University as part of the Introduction to Archives course taught by Mrs. Rhue and locally for religious institutions in North Carolina. This is the first online course and E-Textbook design to help families and religious institutions preserve their heirlooms. Many families and religious institutions worked hard to collect letters, programs, obituaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, vital records, and photographs but do not know how to organize and preserve the stuff they collected. Now families, historians, and religious institutions have a step-by-step system to help them care for their heirlooms. For more information about the online course or E-textbook visit www.preserveproinc.net or www.preserveproinc.net/moodle. Nooma Monika Rhue, MLIS CEO Preserve Pro Inc preservepro@earthlink.net www.preserveproinc.net When the music changes, so does the dance. -West Africa P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail