PROTECCT-GLAM
Providing Risk of The Environment’s Changing Climate Threats for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums
The PROTECCT-GLAM project is a three-year research project conducted by Dr. Edward Benoit, III, Associate Director, School of Information Studies, Louisiana State University, Dr. Jill Trepanier, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Anthropology, Louisiana State University, and Dr. Jennifer Vanos, Associate Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University. This applied research project was awarded $473,243 from the National Leadership Grants for Libraries under Program Goal 4 and Objective 4.1. The research will develop a national categorical climate change risk assessment scale for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) through a geographic information system (GIS) analysis of existing climate change threats and models. The project will also develop a prioritized research agenda to address the associated challenges through hosting a working institute of academic faculty, doctoral students, and GLAM practitioners.
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Occurring over three years, the project will incorporate two main phases with three years of graduate student support. The research will address the following questions: What are the climate change-related risks most likely to provide threats to GLAMs? How can climate change risk for GLAMs be understood as a categorical scale when combining those threats most likely to need significant consideration? What are the GLAM-specific climate change challenges? How can a collaborative research agenda best address these challenges with input from practitioners and academics?
Benoit, Edward, III, Jill Trepanier, and Jennifer Vanos. “PROTECCT-GLAM: Risk of The Environment’s Changing Climate Threats for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.” Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2022. $458,963. Funded.