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McClurken, Kara

Kara M. McClurken is the Director of Preservation Services at the University of Virginia Library. She oversees all activities related to physical and digital preservation for the University Library, which includes audiovisual conservation, book and paper conservation, book repair and protective enclosures for circulating collections, commercial binding, digital preservation, disaster preparedness and recovery, environmental monitoring, outreach and consulting. After the event related to the “Unite the Right” rally and community response in Charlottesville, VA on August 11-12, 2017, Ms. McClurken formed a Digital Collecting Emergency Response Group to organize a Library response to that and future events. She currently serves on the Society of American Archivists’ Tragedy Response Initiative Task Force.