Tom Wilsted, an archival consultant specializing in archival facilities and archival management.

Are you planning or hoping to plan a new or remodeled archival facility?  If so, are you required to meet one of the standards for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification established by the Green Building Council?  If not, would you like to encourage your administration to seek this certification?  This web seminar will address the standards that designers must apply to a new or remodeled facility and how the LEED Guidelines can assist and reinforce this process.

The seminar will address:

Who should attend?
Anyone who is currently planning or considering a new or remodeled archival facility.  
 
About our presenter:
Tom Wilsted is an archival consultant specializing in archival facilities and archival management.
 
Before that, he was director of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut.  Prior to joining the University of Connecticut, Mr. Wilsted served as Associate Director of the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, Director of the Salvation Army Archives and Manuscripts Librarian at the National Library of New Zealand.  At the Dodd Center, much of his work is directed toward grant writing, fund raising and developing digital programs. 
 
Mr. Wilsted has a graduate degree in history and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists.  He has taught SAA workshops on management and planning  and on new and remodeled archival facilities.  He is the co-author of Managing Archival and Manuscript Repositories published by the Society of American Archivists in 1992 that won the SAA's Waldo Leland Gifford Prize and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Arline Custer Award.  Mr. Wilsted is currently writing an SAA Manual on Planning New and Remodeled Archival Facilities.