WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 1 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:21.920 i think we'll give a few more minutes for our panelists the remaining 2 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:25.760 panelists to join in laura lot from aam and jessica and then 3 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:31.840 we'll get started 4 00:01:02.790 --> 00:01:05.869 [Music] 5 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:15.439 okay laura is on the webinar so it's 302 and i think 6 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:22.240 we should get started so hello everyone i'm paula genkapadia deputy director in 7 00:01:22.240 --> 00:01:28.080 the office of museum services at imls welcoming you to today's realm 8 00:01:28.080 --> 00:01:33.200 webinar on kobed and museum uh we want to thank 9 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:38.000 all 700 plus attendees that have pre-registered for this webinar 10 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:43.439 for making time uh to learn from the scientific findings of the realm project 11 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:47.680 and also from aam and your peers who will be joining 12 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.880 me in a conversation uh during the later part of this webinar 13 00:01:52.880 --> 00:01:58.000 i'm as many of you know is the primary source of federal funding 14 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:04.719 for our nation's museums and libraries but in addition to being the funder 15 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:08.239 we play a critical role as per our mission 16 00:02:08.239 --> 00:02:12.879 to convene and converse with various stakeholders 17 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:19.520 engage in research all aim to better inform our constituents the realm 18 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.879 project is one such important effort and we are 19 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:27.360 delighted to engage with our partners from oclc 20 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:32.160 battelle am and other museum and library associations 21 00:02:32.160 --> 00:02:38.000 as well as funders like melon carnegie and many of the other cultural 22 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:42.959 organizations today's webinar is divided in two parts 23 00:02:42.959 --> 00:02:47.519 sharon streams from oclc we'll be presenting the first half 24 00:02:47.519 --> 00:02:51.519 and they'll be you know sharing a pretty comprehensive 25 00:02:51.519 --> 00:02:56.160 overview of the findings thus far especially applicable to the museum 26 00:02:56.160 --> 00:02:59.440 sector the second part of the webinar will 27 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:03.840 focus on a conversation that i'll moderate with laura lot from 28 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.440 am kevin hines from the carnegie museums 29 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:12.720 and jessica hickey from the arizona science center we will discuss the state 30 00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:16.800 of affairs as they stand today best practices 31 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:23.440 lessons learned and what more you need you know on behalf of the museum we 32 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:25.680 wanted to share with you that the webinar 33 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:30.319 is being recorded and uh we will be taking questions 34 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:35.519 uh in two parts one we will pause after sharon has finished her presentation of 35 00:03:35.519 --> 00:03:38.959 part one and then we will take a second set of 36 00:03:38.959 --> 00:03:42.879 questions after we have uh we are done with the conversation 37 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:46.799 with laura kevin and jessica please do know that we 38 00:03:46.799 --> 00:03:52.560 may not be able to answer all questions but we have kept that 39 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:58.959 in in our mind and the last slide of the presentation has the contact information 40 00:03:58.959 --> 00:04:02.959 of all of us the email addresses so if your question 41 00:04:02.959 --> 00:04:07.280 has not been answered feel free to write uh you know to any of 42 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:09.680 us i think i have permission from all the 43 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:13.360 panelists here and they'll be delighted to you know ask 44 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:17.359 answer your questions uh remember that you know like i 45 00:04:17.359 --> 00:04:20.639 mentioned this is an effort on behalf of imls 46 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:23.680 uh but this effort can only be successful 47 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.360 if what we are sharing is helpful for you 48 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:32.000 but this is in no way uh you know it's it's a start of an effort 49 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:36.479 it will continue and we would like to be informed and educated 50 00:04:36.479 --> 00:04:41.199 about your needs so that we and the steering committee of realm 51 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:45.680 and imls can align the work that's going on 52 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:50.080 so without further ado i would now like to turn it over to sharon streams 53 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:55.040 to present the findings of the realm project 54 00:04:55.280 --> 00:05:00.000 thanks so much paula and good afternoon everyone i'm really happy to be 55 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.000 with you today and i'm going to be asking um daniel 56 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.199 to um drive the slides on my behalf so let's 57 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:13.600 um let's go for it um let's go one more um well yeah yeah 58 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:15.840 you can you can see me so you don't need to see 59 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:20.800 my picture um but i'm i'm here to speak to you wearing um 60 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:24.400 one of my hats which is as the realm project director 61 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:29.919 for the oclc which is a global library technology company 62 00:05:29.919 --> 00:05:35.280 my other primary role is director of web junction which is a program that 63 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:39.120 provides free professional development continuing education for 64 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:42.479 library staff across the country and beyond and 65 00:05:42.479 --> 00:05:46.240 so while i've had the privilege of working with um 66 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:50.320 with libraries and museums on on certain projects my 67 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:53.759 experience and knowledge is grounded primarily 68 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:57.360 in the library sector so i'm really also looking forward to 69 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:03.520 listening and learning from you today through your questions and comments 70 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:07.680 so as paula mentioned i'm going to give you an overview of the realm project 71 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:11.759 and to start what is realm an acronym for well it's for 72 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:17.360 reopening archives libraries and museums and it's a project that formed out of a 73 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:21.039 research partnership that developed early er this year 74 00:06:21.039 --> 00:06:25.759 between oclc and imls and the scientific 75 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:30.479 research company battelle and this project was devised in the 76 00:06:30.479 --> 00:06:37.039 really early days of the covid pandemic and to produce unique and 77 00:06:37.039 --> 00:06:43.759 original research that's directly relevant to how libraries archives and 78 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:49.039 museums can handle materials and conduct operations that will help 79 00:06:49.039 --> 00:06:53.280 mitigate exposure of kovid 19 to both staff 80 00:06:53.280 --> 00:06:58.639 and visitors so the short url that's on this slide 81 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:02.319 will take you to the hub for the round project so this 82 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:07.840 is a website where you can find all the information that i'm touching on today 83 00:07:07.840 --> 00:07:11.039 all the results so both about about the project and 84 00:07:11.039 --> 00:07:15.360 and the results of the project we continually add new information to this 85 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:19.599 hub and we also announce these updates through a mailing list 86 00:07:19.599 --> 00:07:24.960 that's dedicated to the realm project and so we do encourage you to subscribe 87 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:28.720 to that if you're not already receiving project updates 88 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:32.080 we issue those just maybe once every two weeks 89 00:07:32.080 --> 00:07:36.639 and we have over 10 000 subscribers thus far 90 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:44.000 you can also follow oclc imls and aam all and other organizations 91 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.680 to get news and information uh through social media 92 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:51.680 um about the project for those of you on twitter 93 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:55.599 who wish to surface information related to the project 94 00:07:55.599 --> 00:07:59.520 so you know we'll see it this way too use the hashtag 95 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:06.639 um realm project and um then that will help continue the conversation 96 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:09.599 next slide please 97 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:16.000 so first this slide capture is just a really high level summary of the primary 98 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.080 activities that realm has been conducting over the past eight months 99 00:08:20.080 --> 00:08:23.599 and then i will give some further details about 100 00:08:23.599 --> 00:08:27.680 all of these after that so the project has produced 101 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:31.759 two scientific literature reviews this year and a third one 102 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:36.880 is currently underway we have had ongoing consultation 103 00:08:36.880 --> 00:08:40.800 and engagement with an executive project steering committee 104 00:08:40.800 --> 00:08:45.360 working groups and other subject matter experts that all have representatives 105 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:50.720 from across museums libraries archives both at the 106 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:58.320 individual institution level the group level and the association level 107 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:02.560 we have created toolkit resources that are 108 00:09:02.560 --> 00:09:06.720 intended to make the information the the research 109 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:11.680 easy to read easy to share snapshots that distill 110 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:17.279 the sort of more dense research findings and also to gather and share 111 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:22.880 illustrative examples from institutions that show what those 112 00:09:22.880 --> 00:09:26.240 institutions are doing in terms of policies and planning 113 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:32.399 and operational considerations and also sharing guidelines that may be created 114 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:37.200 by other organizations that are also drawing upon 115 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:42.080 science-based evidence-based information and that are relevant to 116 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:47.040 one of the sectors or all of the sectors 117 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:51.120 we are sharing the project information and the resources 118 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:55.120 through that project website that i mentioned but we're also 119 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:59.200 drawing upon a network of member associations 120 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:02.480 and support organizations that are um disseminating 121 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:08.240 out to their membership as well so we really rely upon that whole you know 122 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:12.160 broader national network 123 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:19.440 and of course so much has been so fast and rapidly changing with of cour 124 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:23.200 with the pandemic and the response at both the local level 125 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:26.560 and the state and national level that a lot of 126 00:10:26.560 --> 00:10:30.560 the project is listening learning and adapting along 127 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:34.959 the way next slide please 128 00:10:35.680 --> 00:10:41.839 um i think it's thank you okay so um but just a a couple 129 00:10:41.839 --> 00:10:44.880 level sets right before i get into more details 130 00:10:44.880 --> 00:10:52.240 is really to just to say what realm is doing is providing data to you 131 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:55.760 to help us all better understand the virus 132 00:10:55.760 --> 00:11:01.600 and the project is saying you know please use that data to 133 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:06.000 help inform your practices and policies 134 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:11.279 but what the project is not doing is devising and issuing 135 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.040 one size fit all recommendations or guidelines 136 00:11:15.040 --> 00:11:18.800 i think most of you you know really understand 137 00:11:18.800 --> 00:11:22.880 that you're so embedded in your communities that every institution 138 00:11:22.880 --> 00:11:27.440 is different and you need to you're developing policies and practices that 139 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:32.720 work for your local context in good coordination with your local 140 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:35.839 experts in public health departments and and 141 00:11:35.839 --> 00:11:43.839 in response to your user community next slide please um 142 00:11:43.839 --> 00:11:48.240 that being said we really understand the enormous string that 143 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:53.200 um you have all been under um as you're striving to make 144 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:56.240 sound thoughtful decisions in an environment 145 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:03.040 that's really a combination of urgency complexity and uncertainty 146 00:12:03.040 --> 00:12:09.360 so with this project it started out as a response to initial 147 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:14.079 concerns initially around circulating library 148 00:12:14.079 --> 00:12:17.760 collections as well as frequently touched surfaces 149 00:12:17.760 --> 00:12:21.600 at that time earlier this spring surface-based materials-based 150 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:28.079 transmission was considered of a grave concern and so the project 151 00:12:28.079 --> 00:12:35.120 was to really understand more uh in detailed uh matter what is the 152 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:38.160 what is going on with her surfaces and how might 153 00:12:38.160 --> 00:12:43.279 the institutions adapt to that we're seeing over the course of the 154 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:49.040 project sort of a change in focus with less concern about materials 155 00:12:49.040 --> 00:12:53.279 transmission to other transmission routes too and 156 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:57.680 we see that as we do the literature reviews 157 00:12:57.680 --> 00:13:02.800 and of course you know track the general conversation 158 00:13:02.800 --> 00:13:06.320 but what this project has been doing is really accumulating 159 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:11.279 scientific knowledge along the way and formulating a cumulative 160 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:15.839 picture because there was such a sense of urgency 161 00:13:15.839 --> 00:13:18.880 we didn't wait and say okay we're going to conduct 162 00:13:18.880 --> 00:13:22.240 all the research and ask all the questions and do it thoroughly 163 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:25.760 and then you know a year later issue a report 164 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:29.440 so what it's been doing is just issuing findings 165 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:33.200 just as we have discovered them so you get 166 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:38.399 you get um information immediately but it's only one piece of the puzzle 167 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:42.160 um so one of the things is to try to string that together into more of a 168 00:13:42.160 --> 00:13:46.959 cohesive story um i've we've seen this also happening 169 00:13:46.959 --> 00:13:51.279 in the in the news media and in the general you know there's like one 170 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:55.519 one study is published and uh you know journalists will lash on 171 00:13:55.519 --> 00:14:00.399 to that and it sort of fans a new theory um that might sound like settled science 172 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:02.720 but it's but then something comes out a couple 173 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:06.560 months later that's you know adds a different um twist to 174 00:14:06.560 --> 00:14:09.680 things so um again that's that uncertainty and 175 00:14:09.680 --> 00:14:15.199 complexity that's in there um also the project is not trying to 176 00:14:15.199 --> 00:14:19.680 cover the entire breadth of the questions and the considerations related 177 00:14:19.680 --> 00:14:24.639 to covet 19 but has been more focused on a few 178 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:28.639 research questions to that to really you know 179 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:32.639 be one piece to help your local decision making 180 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:36.480 in combination what is coming out of other 181 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:41.440 you know public health departments in the cdc and elsewhere 182 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:46.240 i wanted to just draw attention to a really excellent article that's in the 183 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:50.000 british medical journal it was published earlier this spring 184 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:57.279 i'll just pop it into chat here that gives a really nice 185 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:00.720 overview about this this very situation of how 186 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:04.480 of trying to make well-informed and thoughtful decisions under complex 187 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:06.720 conditions i mean you read it you'll probably 188 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:11.600 recognize yourself in it and basically you know these are experts who've worked 189 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:16.720 in this in in these types of public health crises before and they say 190 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:21.360 um you know you're doing a great job and just recognize that 191 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.959 that it's not possible to just have solid 192 00:15:24.959 --> 00:15:31.279 answers all the time and right away next slide please 193 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.759 okay with that i just wanted to talk about what's the 194 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:42.800 status of covid19 research overall and this is um this is a summary 195 00:15:42.800 --> 00:15:46.240 from the first two literature reviews um the 196 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.399 the second and one which which was published in mid-october 197 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:54.959 and i just put a link to where you can find those 198 00:15:54.959 --> 00:15:57.839 next slide please 199 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:02.959 and kind of maybe sound sort of perversely but i'm 200 00:16:02.959 --> 00:16:08.320 going to start with what is not known yet and these are the known unknowns and 201 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:13.600 and you hopefully have heard these in other places too but it is important to 202 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:17.360 bear in mind um these these important things that we 203 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:22.079 do not know yet and one is it's not known how much a 204 00:16:22.079 --> 00:16:26.399 virus an infected person sheds so shedding you know when they cough or 205 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:31.199 they sneeze or through other excretions um how many 206 00:16:31.199 --> 00:16:34.639 virus particles are coming off them and um 207 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:37.680 and at what point in their infectiousness so 208 00:16:37.680 --> 00:16:40.959 i'm not known and for other viruses there's quite um 209 00:16:40.959 --> 00:16:44.959 a significant variation from just a very small 210 00:16:44.959 --> 00:16:49.440 number of particles to more the hundreds or thousands 211 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:54.800 we also don't know whether people are getting infected by touching objects 212 00:16:54.800 --> 00:17:00.560 um there have been um only maybe a couple cases that where 213 00:17:00.560 --> 00:17:05.919 objects have been more definitively determined to be the 214 00:17:05.919 --> 00:17:09.600 source or strongly um considered to be the source 215 00:17:09.600 --> 00:17:12.959 so that's still a question mark around that 216 00:17:12.959 --> 00:17:18.160 um and third we don't know how much or how little virus is needed to cause 217 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:21.760 infection so how much you need to get inside your 218 00:17:21.760 --> 00:17:25.039 your bloodstream your your lungs or airflow 219 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:32.720 your air passages in order to get an infection next slide please 220 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:38.000 um so with that backdrop um the literature reviews have been driven 221 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:42.240 by three questions one is how might the virus spread 222 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:44.880 through general operations at your at your 223 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:49.679 museum or libraries or archives um how long does 224 00:17:49.679 --> 00:17:54.320 the virus remain active or infectious on surfaces 225 00:17:54.320 --> 00:18:00.960 that it's sitting on or embedded in and then how effective are prevention 226 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:05.600 and decontamination measures against the virus in those 227 00:18:05.600 --> 00:18:09.440 settings and in the situations 228 00:18:09.679 --> 00:18:15.600 so you'll notice that these literature questions are focused about the behavior 229 00:18:15.600 --> 00:18:19.760 of the virus of sars kovid ii in the environment and not about the 230 00:18:19.760 --> 00:18:23.360 disease covid19 that results so not about 231 00:18:23.360 --> 00:18:27.120 what happens after a person that's been infected 232 00:18:27.120 --> 00:18:32.799 but more about how the virus is able or is not able to infect somebody and how 233 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:37.919 we can prevent that next slide please 234 00:18:39.600 --> 00:18:46.720 so at the time of the the mid-october literature review 235 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:51.760 basically where things were was that sars kobit ii was generally understood 236 00:18:51.760 --> 00:18:56.160 to spread primarily through virus containing water 237 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:59.039 droplets that are expelled from an infected person 238 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.160 from a sneeze or coughing or speaking singing 239 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:08.840 talking all those things i think we're all um now pretty well aware of 240 00:19:08.840 --> 00:19:13.039 that um also uh 241 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:17.760 but then there's the possibles um so the the most likely or the dominant 242 00:19:17.760 --> 00:19:21.919 transmissions are really that direct contact infected person is directly 243 00:19:21.919 --> 00:19:27.360 or very close to another person and the virus is transmitted through those 244 00:19:27.360 --> 00:19:31.919 droplets aerosol particles um there's there has 245 00:19:31.919 --> 00:19:37.919 been growing evidence that those are another form of transmission 246 00:19:37.919 --> 00:19:43.039 at the time in in you know this fall that was not settled science though you 247 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:47.840 had sort of uh you had researchers on on different um 248 00:19:47.840 --> 00:19:53.760 kind of ends of of the um of that question um so we're cons we 249 00:19:53.760 --> 00:19:59.760 call that possible but not settled yet um and then there's also again 250 00:19:59.760 --> 00:20:02.880 on the on the other end are contaminated objects uh 251 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:10.080 surfaces which are also called fomites as i mentioned earlier 252 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:13.840 you know viruses do get transmitted through services 253 00:20:13.840 --> 00:20:18.559 it's just more of a question of whether that's happening and to what degree 254 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:24.880 it is for this particular virus um but as the months have gone by it's 255 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:29.679 considered to be um definitely not a you know a dominant 256 00:20:29.679 --> 00:20:34.559 form of transmission but is still possible other 257 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:38.400 other forms of transmission are bodily fluids other excretions 258 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:45.840 um and you know from tears um urine that that sort of thing so 259 00:20:45.840 --> 00:20:51.280 those are have been studied more as the times gone by as well 260 00:20:51.280 --> 00:20:54.159 next slide please 261 00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:01.120 we also our understanding that environmental conditions 262 00:21:01.120 --> 00:21:05.440 are a factor so temperature and relative humidity 263 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:11.679 so uh higher temperatures um seem to 264 00:21:11.679 --> 00:21:16.240 um have the when in higher temperatures the virus 265 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:19.280 dies off more more quickly and conversely in 266 00:21:19.280 --> 00:21:23.360 in colder temperatures it can survive longer um similarly with relative 267 00:21:23.360 --> 00:21:27.679 humidity high relative humidity um slows the 268 00:21:27.679 --> 00:21:33.679 spread and lower does not there's also things of air quality other 269 00:21:33.679 --> 00:21:38.960 pollutants in there fresh outdoor air that's clean 270 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:46.240 seems to be a better environment for reducing risk of transmission and then 271 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:50.400 of course air flow so getting um you know being able to 272 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:56.799 recirculate air spaces so that that fresh clean air 273 00:21:56.799 --> 00:22:01.280 is is frequently coming in and replacing contaminated air 274 00:22:01.280 --> 00:22:07.200 um at the time you know there is still lots of questions underneath about the 275 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:11.039 level of the risk that these various factors have 276 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:14.799 so it's something like these are ish these are points of concern 277 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:19.200 but still a lot to be understood about them 278 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:22.720 next question next slide please 279 00:22:23.280 --> 00:22:27.200 and on the prevention and decontamination tactics 280 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:30.720 um there's things that just over and over again 281 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:37.200 show that are effective one is the um practicing 282 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.760 physical distancing so that those droplets cannot 283 00:22:41.760 --> 00:22:45.280 as easily pass from one person to another 284 00:22:45.280 --> 00:22:51.679 hand washing or hand sanitizing to um mitigate the any 285 00:22:51.679 --> 00:22:55.280 possibility of transference from from either a 286 00:22:55.280 --> 00:23:00.400 from a from a surface a person um to one's own 287 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:06.320 um person but then with the other possible excretions i 288 00:23:06.320 --> 00:23:11.360 think there's been more focus on toilet hygiene also to make 289 00:23:11.360 --> 00:23:15.840 sure that transmission isn't happening through the 290 00:23:15.840 --> 00:23:23.919 urine or feces and then masks or the as the primary form of ppe 291 00:23:23.919 --> 00:23:29.039 um is is really kind of a something that really covers all of the 292 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:31.840 territory of those possible risk of transmission 293 00:23:31.840 --> 00:23:37.039 um of course not 100 but really reduces that risk 294 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:41.440 and again you know maximizing fresh air open spaces 295 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:46.480 um it helps with those environmental factors 296 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:53.039 then when we get into uh how do you treat spaces or materials that 297 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:56.799 are suspected or known to be contaminated with the virus 298 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:03.520 that's when you get into certain surface cleaners and disinfectants that 299 00:24:03.520 --> 00:24:06.159 have been 300 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:14.000 shown to be to be effective against viruses either sarskovid2 itself or 301 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.720 similar viruses and then to a lesser degree there's been 302 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:22.320 research around certain forms of uv light treatment that 303 00:24:22.320 --> 00:24:24.640 in certain situations and used 304 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:29.760 appropriately can also um decontaminate 305 00:24:29.760 --> 00:24:33.840 a surface or space 306 00:24:35.120 --> 00:24:40.880 so that's the literature review and now i'm going to move into the 307 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:46.960 talking about the lab testing so next slide please 308 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:50.640 and most of the pictures on these slides are taken from the actual 309 00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:57.760 uh lab um workers and and research for the project 310 00:24:57.760 --> 00:25:04.000 so next slide and the research question that has been 311 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:07.679 driving the the lab testing with there have been 312 00:25:07.679 --> 00:25:11.919 six tests thus far is how long does the virus 313 00:25:11.919 --> 00:25:15.039 remain active on materials that are commonly 314 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:19.760 found in archives libraries and museums and again when i say active that means 315 00:25:19.760 --> 00:25:24.080 viable or infectious or in kind of a 316 00:25:24.080 --> 00:25:30.960 not entirely accurate but helpful is alive so um this is not uh 317 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:35.120 so i might use those um terms interchangeably 318 00:25:35.120 --> 00:25:39.600 but hopefully the meaning is is clear to you 319 00:25:39.600 --> 00:25:43.840 what we wanted to do with this research question is really to match 320 00:25:43.840 --> 00:25:49.919 real world conditions so for example of collection items you know 321 00:25:49.919 --> 00:25:54.159 the the sort of maybe the the easiest method 322 00:25:54.159 --> 00:25:57.679 at considered the time was if you just leave something alone 323 00:25:57.679 --> 00:26:00.799 just let it sit there if you think it's been contaminated 324 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:05.360 how long would it be where you would say it's virus free 325 00:26:05.360 --> 00:26:12.240 um uh if the answer was you know more than a than a few days 326 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:19.679 or a week well then it gets the the practicality of that becomes quickly 327 00:26:19.679 --> 00:26:23.039 beyond the point of diminishing returns so 328 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:28.080 quarantining or leaving let things lie was offered originally as kind of a 329 00:26:28.080 --> 00:26:32.799 relatively pragmatic tactic um but it really needs to be considered 330 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:37.600 in the balan balance with all of the other elements in play so if 331 00:26:37.600 --> 00:26:40.000 you have people coming in your space you can't 332 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:42.720 say don't touch anything don't touch the banister don't touch the 333 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:46.000 walls don't touch you know the interactive displays um 334 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:51.520 or if you have a huge number of of materials that have been handled that 335 00:26:51.520 --> 00:26:54.480 you're concerned about but you don't have any space to store them that's 336 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:58.480 another consideration um and then finally 337 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:04.799 you know it's it's a one it's it's one question if you have 338 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:08.640 a surge of covid19 cases rising in your community 339 00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:15.760 um versus um you know there are occasions when there there is not any um 340 00:27:15.760 --> 00:27:21.520 any um signs that is not is active among the people that 341 00:27:21.520 --> 00:27:25.120 may be using your facilities 342 00:27:25.520 --> 00:27:33.039 so for those of you who may be following this scientific research about 343 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:36.080 the virus you might be aware that there are 344 00:27:36.080 --> 00:27:40.320 two types of tests and this is in really basic ways one that a 345 00:27:40.320 --> 00:27:44.080 is a test is just detecting presence of viral matter 346 00:27:44.080 --> 00:27:50.559 so little bits of a virus rna but it's not really determining whether 347 00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:54.720 those virus particles are inactive or active so are they capable 348 00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:59.440 of infection or not so one test is just looking at presence 349 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:03.279 of virus the other one is focused on measuring 350 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:08.320 infectious virus particles only so i just want to be clear that the battelle 351 00:28:08.320 --> 00:28:12.240 research for the realm project is using that latter method so what i'm going to 352 00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.679 be showing to you is presence of infectious 353 00:28:15.679 --> 00:28:21.200 virus materials next slide please 354 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:26.320 um so here are pictures of the material of 355 00:28:26.320 --> 00:28:29.840 one of the tests where they're prepping the materials for the lab 356 00:28:29.840 --> 00:28:33.120 so as i mentioned there have been six tests 357 00:28:33.120 --> 00:28:36.399 thus far that have been completed and in each test 358 00:28:36.399 --> 00:28:39.679 there are five different materials that are tested 359 00:28:39.679 --> 00:28:43.360 and what they do is take a sample of each material 360 00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:48.640 and cut it into these small rectangular coupons so you can see stacks of the 361 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:53.919 coupons of the various materials that are that were tested here 362 00:28:53.919 --> 00:28:57.919 and then then those materials the the researchers 363 00:28:57.919 --> 00:29:05.520 apply the virus that's suspended in this synthetic saliva or fake spit as it were 364 00:29:05.520 --> 00:29:08.880 so they're applying it on there so it's sort of simulating 365 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:12.159 you know a sneeze from an infectious person 366 00:29:12.159 --> 00:29:16.240 they sneezed on this material and it got all over it 367 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:19.200 next slide please 368 00:29:21.120 --> 00:29:27.600 then those are materials are put into a test chamber 369 00:29:27.600 --> 00:29:31.520 either in a stacked or unstacked configuration 370 00:29:31.520 --> 00:29:36.080 so they might be laid out on a rack that looks like cookies drying on a rack 371 00:29:36.080 --> 00:29:40.080 or if if it makes more sense of how that material 372 00:29:40.080 --> 00:29:43.760 is used in the real world conditions they could be stacked 373 00:29:43.760 --> 00:29:47.279 where their surface to surface is squished together 374 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:52.159 um so that there's not really so that the virus kind of sandwiched between 375 00:29:52.159 --> 00:29:56.720 materials and then those um those racks with the 376 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:02.559 coupons are put inside a chamber where they can control the temperature 377 00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:05.440 um for the all the tests done today the 378 00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:10.000 temperature was kind of simulating let's call standard office temperature so 379 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:15.200 between 68 and 72 degrees fahrenheit and relative humidity 380 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:20.320 30 to 50 percent this chamber doesn't have outside air 381 00:30:20.320 --> 00:30:23.840 air coming in or light so it's kind of a you can 382 00:30:23.840 --> 00:30:29.120 consider it like a stagnant um a stagnant space 383 00:30:29.120 --> 00:30:35.279 and then that's uh held in a biohazard safety level our level three lab 384 00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:39.760 so these are labs that are designed to be able to work with 385 00:30:39.760 --> 00:30:46.480 very hazardous substances you know like infectious diseases patel's worked 386 00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:48.840 with things scary things like ricin and 387 00:30:48.840 --> 00:30:53.520 anthrax sars mers 388 00:30:53.840 --> 00:31:00.880 some other viruses and there's only 200 labs in in the 389 00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:05.760 whole country for this so it's very um 390 00:31:05.760 --> 00:31:11.200 particular that they can have this infectious virus in this lab 391 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:19.360 next slide please so then at each pre-selected time point for the test 392 00:31:19.360 --> 00:31:24.320 the the test samples are are removed from the chamber and then 393 00:31:24.320 --> 00:31:29.200 they are added to a cell culture so basically some cells that are 394 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:34.880 um to see if the virus actually kills those cells so that if it does 395 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:39.519 that means this is infectious virus um and depending on the level of 396 00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:44.159 cellular interaction the researchers use a formula to 397 00:31:44.159 --> 00:31:50.080 calculate from that how much infectious virus is present 398 00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:58.159 so they're able to track that from that initial level that they put on 399 00:31:58.159 --> 00:32:02.000 there just putting another link in the in the 400 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:05.440 um chat there that will take you to the 401 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:08.559 test plan that gives all the gory details about this 402 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:13.440 um but they are able to to measure the amount of infectious virus 403 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:17.679 all the way to the point that it gets to what is called the limit of quantitation 404 00:32:17.679 --> 00:32:21.919 and this is where there there are fewer than 26 405 00:32:21.919 --> 00:32:27.120 particles of virus left on the coupon after that point there's not enough for 406 00:32:27.120 --> 00:32:31.760 it really to show enough interaction with the cell 407 00:32:31.760 --> 00:32:36.159 culture so instead they look at it under a microscope and just look 408 00:32:36.159 --> 00:32:40.960 at each coupon for that day and say do we see any virus on there or 409 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:43.760 not and when the answer is no they do not 410 00:32:43.760 --> 00:32:48.320 see it on any of the coupons then it's considered hitting the limit 411 00:32:48.320 --> 00:32:53.600 of detection so no virus is found at all 412 00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:01.600 next slide please so that is the process in a nutshell and now here's an 413 00:33:01.600 --> 00:33:05.760 example um from uh let's look at test six which 414 00:33:05.760 --> 00:33:10.080 was the most recent test findings that were published which 415 00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:15.760 was on hard surfaces listed here glass marble laminate brass and powder 416 00:33:15.760 --> 00:33:18.640 coated steel 417 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:23.279 and let's go to the next slide and uh first 418 00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:27.120 show you what this looks like in graph form so 419 00:33:27.120 --> 00:33:31.600 each of those are color-coded lines on the graph 420 00:33:31.600 --> 00:33:36.480 and you see that the brass which is a light blue line 421 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:40.320 and the marble which is kind of a rust line they dropped 422 00:33:40.320 --> 00:33:43.760 all the way down to zero the limit of detection 423 00:33:43.760 --> 00:33:48.880 on day two um and while the others also dropped 424 00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:53.760 significantly that day there were still virus detected until 425 00:33:53.760 --> 00:33:56.880 uh day six 426 00:33:57.120 --> 00:34:04.480 so um that's what um patel um presented to to us in the form of a 427 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:11.359 chart and if you go to the next slide this is kind of the the friendly um 428 00:34:11.359 --> 00:34:17.280 easy to read version of that slide that shows the five materials that were 429 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:22.240 tested under hide services and again that marble and brass 430 00:34:22.240 --> 00:34:28.000 no virus found after two days sitting in their little quarantine space 431 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:34.480 and then for the other three not after six days 432 00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:40.960 and next slide please um and then this 433 00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:45.119 graph shows all of the materials that have been tested to date 434 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:50.159 and the results of those same types of tests 435 00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:54.720 through those six testing rounds so this kind of gives you a glanceable 436 00:34:54.720 --> 00:35:00.560 thing where we have in some cases after just one day virus completely gone 437 00:35:00.560 --> 00:35:05.280 and then in other cases after eight days there were still some 438 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:09.760 virus detected on the surfaces 439 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:20.160 i'm gonna drop another link in here next slide please 440 00:35:23.040 --> 00:35:27.280 here are just some snapshots of the toolkit resources 441 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:32.000 that you'll find on the website that encapsulate 442 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:35.920 and synthesize some of the things that i just went over 443 00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:40.320 about the literature review and about the the testing 444 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:45.359 that again these are all pdfs that you can download you can share 445 00:35:45.359 --> 00:35:48.880 with your constituents with your decision makers with your 446 00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:56.880 health departments just as as as fodder for your decision making 447 00:35:56.880 --> 00:36:00.480 and next slide please 448 00:36:01.520 --> 00:36:04.800 and then i just want to end before i turn to questions 449 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:09.760 um with some things that you can go for more information 450 00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:17.119 is so again if you go to the the hub the the the realm website um there is one of 451 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:19.760 the main sections is called research so you'll 452 00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:25.839 find the research both the full reports the testing plan as well as 453 00:36:25.839 --> 00:36:31.040 charts and graphs and and and summaries um to explain the 454 00:36:31.040 --> 00:36:34.880 results the resources section have the toolkit 455 00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:38.839 materials and there's one section that's dedicated to 456 00:36:38.839 --> 00:36:45.839 museums in particular and as i said in addition to graphics and 457 00:36:45.839 --> 00:36:49.280 illustrations of the realm of sponsored research 458 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:55.680 there are also guidelines illustrative examples that we have 459 00:36:55.680 --> 00:36:59.599 curated and pulled in that have been created by other organizations 460 00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:04.800 or institutions there's a form that you can submit 461 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:10.079 questions to the realm inbox it'll be either me or my um 462 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:13.839 my colleague kendra who will probably be answering you 463 00:37:13.839 --> 00:37:17.680 we do read those and we do really appreciate your questions 464 00:37:17.680 --> 00:37:22.720 um those questions have helped inform an faq which you'll also find on the 465 00:37:22.720 --> 00:37:27.119 website there we update those as a new kind of if 466 00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.480 there's new thematic questions that come up but it does answer 467 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:33.520 all of the most frequently asked one and then again 468 00:37:33.520 --> 00:37:37.760 join that mailing list if you want to get direct news and updates from the 469 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:44.800 project all right thank you thank you sharon 470 00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:50.800 and now we can take some questions do you want to take a quick look at the 471 00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:56.000 question box and maybe take like five to eight minutes we 472 00:37:56.000 --> 00:38:00.320 are a little tight on time uh to answer any question that may 473 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:05.839 benefit all the attendees 474 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:19.839 i am not seeing the questions okay in my 475 00:38:20.240 --> 00:38:25.200 are there any that i don't see anything in 476 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:32.079 in the question box okay yeah i have a question for 477 00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:37.359 elizabeth from imls do you see any questions coming up that sharon can 478 00:38:37.359 --> 00:38:39.760 answer 479 00:38:43.200 --> 00:38:48.079 there's a couple questions that have been coming in i've posted those for our 480 00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:52.400 organizers and panelists in the chat 481 00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:03.520 okay i see a question speak a bit more about virus found on a surface versus 482 00:39:03.520 --> 00:39:07.839 infectiousness of the virus when found 483 00:39:10.720 --> 00:39:16.880 so it's definite i would say it's it's 484 00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:21.920 definitely possible you know again if someone sneezes or coughs on a surface 485 00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:26.240 and they are infected with covid that it's going to transfer 486 00:39:26.240 --> 00:39:29.280 virus particles through that sneezer cough to 487 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:35.359 the surface that they um that they uh splattered on just as same as if it 488 00:39:35.359 --> 00:39:38.320 was a person right a person an object can receive it 489 00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:43.839 i think what the sort of the big question is 490 00:39:43.839 --> 00:39:49.280 because we don't know how many virus particles it takes for someone to get 491 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:56.079 infected but there's also the the how how likely or how 492 00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:59.599 possible or how much would it take for someone to then 493 00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:04.079 touch that surface and then need to you know you're not going to get sick 494 00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.520 just from touching it then you have to be able to transfer it say you know 495 00:40:07.520 --> 00:40:12.000 to your mouth or to your nose your eyes or somehow so it gets inside your body 496 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:17.359 and capable infection um so the um the 497 00:40:17.359 --> 00:40:20.960 so far with trying to do um tracing back of 498 00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:27.359 of sources of transmissions it's been uh there's only uh there are very few cases 499 00:40:27.359 --> 00:40:31.760 that have been where where that form of transmission has been 500 00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:35.520 found to be the source of it um but it's also really 501 00:40:35.520 --> 00:40:39.920 hard to trace trace that so um 502 00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:44.720 and without knowing both how much an infectious person sheds and how much it 503 00:40:44.720 --> 00:40:48.000 takes to infect someone there's just some of these you know those known 504 00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:52.560 unknowns get in the way um so what we're doing with the lab 505 00:40:52.560 --> 00:40:57.599 testing is kind of showing the lifespan of a virus on surfaces so 506 00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:03.359 it sort of answers the first part is um if you get virus on a on a substance 507 00:41:03.359 --> 00:41:07.359 how long will it sit there and being active 508 00:41:07.359 --> 00:41:12.800 and how quickly does it you know does it attenuate or dissipate 509 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:19.200 what we can't answer yet is and then if someone touches it with then then how 510 00:41:19.200 --> 00:41:23.200 likely are they going to get infected 511 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:35.839 and then 512 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:40.960 okay boy now they're now they're all flying in so 513 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:46.800 uh were tests done in live environments um they were done in a laboratory 514 00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:51.040 environment so the the materials many of the materials were 515 00:41:51.040 --> 00:41:54.400 donated from actual institutions so they came out of either 516 00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:58.480 circulating collections or spaces others were purchased from members but 517 00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:02.079 they were infected with virus that was grown 518 00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:08.480 in a lab and then held in a lab so it was not going into say like an 519 00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:17.839 infected environment and scraping off virus from spaces 520 00:42:18.720 --> 00:42:22.480 um i see a link to an article in the washington post i think it's the one 521 00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:25.280 that came out yeah just a couple days ago about 522 00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:30.560 um airborne transmission and and over cleaning yeah i think um there's some 523 00:42:30.560 --> 00:42:35.839 really you know there's some really good um you know discussion about this about 524 00:42:35.839 --> 00:42:42.000 um the difference between over cleaning and appropriate cleaning i did think 525 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:46.800 that the article in the washington post was sort of a little bit blithely 526 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:50.480 assuming that having people wear a mask and wash your 527 00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:57.680 hands was just a no-brainer in a given um you know if everybody did that very 528 00:42:57.680 --> 00:43:01.119 consistently and across the board i think that 529 00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:04.720 that those two things would would cover a lot of the territory 530 00:43:04.720 --> 00:43:08.800 um but i but you know we understand what we hear from 531 00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:12.160 from the community of museums and libraries is that 532 00:43:12.160 --> 00:43:15.680 there isn't a hundred percent adherence so having 533 00:43:15.680 --> 00:43:18.960 some cleaning and disinfection um tactics 534 00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:23.040 um to use in cases where you're concerned that trans 535 00:43:23.040 --> 00:43:28.319 that something may have been contaminated seems appropriate 536 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:36.079 i don't i want to just do a time check because i know i think we should take 537 00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:40.079 one question and then i think we have to move to part 538 00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:43.119 two because we don't have too much time left 539 00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:47.200 um and i and i will continue i will put responses in the chat 540 00:43:47.200 --> 00:43:50.240 during the part two that would be perfect that'll be perfect 541 00:43:50.240 --> 00:43:54.800 for me yeah good time yeah do you want to do that now absolutely 542 00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:58.400 go on because we just have half an hour perfect 543 00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:01.520 okay thank you so much sharon and i think uh 544 00:44:01.520 --> 00:44:05.520 i love seeing the the questions uh that are coming in the 545 00:44:05.520 --> 00:44:10.319 in the question box keep them coming sharon promises to answer them now 546 00:44:10.319 --> 00:44:13.920 or you know we will answer them later so at this point 547 00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:18.000 um let's move on to part two of our webinar 548 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:23.359 and uh like i mentioned we have laura lot from aam 549 00:44:23.359 --> 00:44:27.839 and kevin and jessica so thank you all for joining 550 00:44:27.839 --> 00:44:31.119 laura i would like to begin with you giving us 551 00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:35.040 uh an update on the state of affairs as they stand now 552 00:44:35.040 --> 00:44:40.240 you have been an active partner with imls you're serving on the 553 00:44:40.240 --> 00:44:46.079 steering committee of you know the realm project you have been in conversations 554 00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:51.200 with our director across vni on you know right from you know march 555 00:44:51.200 --> 00:44:54.720 onwards and we are doing a lot of communications with you 556 00:44:54.720 --> 00:44:57.839 um i want to start by saying a big thank you to what you 557 00:44:57.839 --> 00:45:05.440 are doing um to keep the sector informed uh so if you can take a few minutes and 558 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:11.280 shed some light on where things stand what are some of the changes you're 559 00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:14.079 seeing what are some of the needs that you're seeing 560 00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:19.040 um you also received a cares act grant from imls 561 00:45:19.040 --> 00:45:23.280 am did so what are your plans for that so let me turn it over to you 562 00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:29.440 and take some time to enlighten us thanks paula i appreciate that um those 563 00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:32.240 nice comments and and the opportunity to be with all of 564 00:45:32.240 --> 00:45:36.400 you today and i will be really brief because i think the um 565 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:40.240 how how all of this gets applied in museums is really critical and i know 566 00:45:40.240 --> 00:45:45.119 kevin and jessica are uh have some great information to share 567 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.760 um but i i just want to whenever i'm asked about 568 00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:51.520 to talk a little bit about the state of museums these days i have to start um 569 00:45:51.520 --> 00:45:55.680 with an acknowledgement in about the state of museum people 570 00:45:55.680 --> 00:45:59.599 um i know we're talking a lot about science and data and facts and figures 571 00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:03.680 and i won't go into um you know all of the ways that 572 00:46:03.680 --> 00:46:06.880 we know that this current environment is um 573 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:11.440 is impacting uh the people that work in and make up museums and and certainly 574 00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:14.800 our audiences i think that i just want to say the most 575 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:20.480 important thing for you to know is that um you're not alone um all of us on this 576 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:24.560 webinar and i know at imls i know crosby and paula share this we're 577 00:46:24.560 --> 00:46:28.640 deeply grateful for all that you're doing to serve your communities despite 578 00:46:28.640 --> 00:46:34.160 these unprecedented times to keep people safe in and around your 579 00:46:34.160 --> 00:46:36.800 museums and to give people respite and 580 00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:41.040 inspiration and information so thank you for all you do i wanted to if 581 00:46:41.040 --> 00:46:44.720 you could um advance the slides for me that would be great 582 00:46:44.720 --> 00:46:48.800 whoever is behind the magic while doing that um i just wanted to share a couple 583 00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:52.640 of um key points from our recent coved um uh 584 00:46:52.640 --> 00:46:57.599 19 impact survey uh which was um results from over 850 585 00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:01.760 museums uh across the country uh they answered 586 00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:05.359 these questions in october so since this is a rapidly changing 587 00:47:05.359 --> 00:47:10.000 situation i i'll add a couple of comments uh an observation since then 588 00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.319 um but uh this was an update to a june survey that we did that got a lot of 589 00:47:14.319 --> 00:47:18.079 press with the terrible news that one in three museums was at risk of permanently 590 00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:22.000 closing um due to the financial implications of 591 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:25.280 the current of the pandemic and the closures 592 00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:29.920 across the country um the full report is on am's website so 593 00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:32.160 i'm just going to cover a couple of key things here 594 00:47:32.160 --> 00:47:38.160 next slide our survey confirmed that 98 of museums were closed 595 00:47:38.160 --> 00:47:41.920 to the public at some point this year so this is a widespread impact 596 00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:47.119 and the next slide will show you that 29 uh remained closed um 597 00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:51.520 uh even in october um so never never really opened this year 598 00:47:51.520 --> 00:47:55.760 many children's museums many small spaces that didn't have space for 599 00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:58.640 distancing um and of course this was before the 600 00:47:58.640 --> 00:48:01.280 latest round of reclosings of museums in many 601 00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:04.640 uh communities due to the latest spikes in the virus 602 00:48:04.640 --> 00:48:11.200 um next slide even before this latest round of reclosings 40 of these still 603 00:48:11.200 --> 00:48:14.079 closed museums did not have an identified date to 604 00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:18.880 reopen um and now i suspect that most museums won't be 605 00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:22.400 reopening until after the new year or significantly into the new year 606 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:28.000 um perhaps when we reach a point where a large percentage of the population is 607 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:31.119 is vaccinated which means that a lot a large portion of our field will have 608 00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:36.480 been closed for an entire year the next slide show is an attempt 609 00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:39.359 to show kind of the precipitous rate of closures 610 00:48:39.359 --> 00:48:42.480 last march this happened really fast as you all 611 00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:48.079 know and the orange line shows how slow and spread out the reopening of 612 00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:52.640 museums has been across the the rest of the year um 613 00:48:52.640 --> 00:48:56.319 there's a little green line that shows that museums had 614 00:48:56.319 --> 00:48:59.760 to some museums ended up having to reclose in june and july when we had 615 00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:02.720 that spike and then they're sort of slow reopening 616 00:49:02.720 --> 00:49:07.359 over the following months almost flat um purple line there um so this is a 617 00:49:07.359 --> 00:49:11.040 real moving target as i said and um we will continue to 618 00:49:11.040 --> 00:49:15.520 monitor this um with you know the latest reclosings 619 00:49:15.520 --> 00:49:19.839 and hopefully reopenings next slide 620 00:49:19.839 --> 00:49:25.040 um museums that are uh open are experiencing on average 35 621 00:49:25.040 --> 00:49:30.319 of their normal attendance so even those that are reopening are still um are 622 00:49:30.319 --> 00:49:34.240 still struggling to to get folks um in the doors even though 623 00:49:34.240 --> 00:49:37.920 we have no information that there has ever been a coveted 624 00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:42.800 outbreak traced to a museum either among staff or among visitors which is 625 00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:46.000 which is good news um and i think shows that museums are taking a lot of 626 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:52.480 precautions to keep their spaces uh super safe for um for people 627 00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:56.800 the next slide um there's a lot of information on 628 00:49:56.800 --> 00:50:00.000 the financial implications of all of this but the major point here since 629 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.520 we're talking about sort of reopening and safety measures i 630 00:50:03.520 --> 00:50:08.160 wanted to point out is that um museums have spent 631 00:50:08.160 --> 00:50:12.079 uh you know significant amounts of money preparing to reopen safely on average 632 00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:15.440 about twenty seven thousand dollars and as high as three quarters of a million 633 00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:18.559 dollars so we know that some of the measures are 634 00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:24.880 pretty expensive next slide um as i mentioned up front 635 00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:28.640 about one in three or 29 percent in the latest survey 636 00:50:28.640 --> 00:50:32.800 um uh said that there was a significant risk of closing 637 00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:36.800 permanently um or that or the museum just didn't know how it would survive 638 00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:40.800 and this is something that am is is first and foremost focused on in our 639 00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:44.559 work both with the um cares act grant that we received and and 640 00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:48.400 all of our other um work around uh advocacy and sort of 641 00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:52.960 helping museums both to um make the case that they uh 642 00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:57.520 that they are in uh need and need to be supported as well as 643 00:50:57.520 --> 00:51:00.720 providing resources for museums to look at different ways to reach audiences 644 00:51:00.720 --> 00:51:03.920 digitally um to embrace new audiences so there's 645 00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:08.960 some data out there that shows that 50 of the online audiences that are 646 00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:12.559 accessing museums in that new way for them this year have never actually 647 00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:15.839 stepped foot in the actual museum so it's a whole new audience 648 00:51:15.839 --> 00:51:19.440 uh for museums and and so we want to help to 649 00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:24.079 find ways to keep that and build on that the next slide 650 00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:28.640 um my last slide here is that back in march 651 00:51:28.640 --> 00:51:33.440 aem launched a free comprehensive page of resources on our website to help 652 00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:37.440 museums navigate these impacts of the virus and this has 653 00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:42.960 continued to grow and be updated with help from the field along the way 654 00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:46.720 so there are a number of reopening 655 00:51:46.720 --> 00:51:49.440 checklists the information that sharon just 656 00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:52.720 prevented presented from the realm project around 657 00:51:52.720 --> 00:51:57.119 best practices for um certain cleaning services 658 00:51:57.119 --> 00:52:03.440 uh sample reopening plans for museums and then other information around the 659 00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:07.599 financial implications of the pandemic on museums and looking 660 00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:12.160 at different business models and fiscal strategies and really importantly 661 00:52:12.160 --> 00:52:17.040 continuing to center equity in our work as museums 662 00:52:17.040 --> 00:52:22.000 even well and especially while we manage the implications of the 663 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.200 pandemic which we know are 664 00:52:25.359 --> 00:52:29.119 especially um harming our communities of color 665 00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:34.640 so lots of information there and i will leave it at that for now i think 666 00:52:34.640 --> 00:52:38.160 how much laura for sharing you know very insightful data 667 00:52:38.160 --> 00:52:43.119 we have also been um you know referencing uh some of your findings so 668 00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:46.160 now let's move uh and get some insight from 669 00:52:46.160 --> 00:52:52.319 the practitioners point of view uh kevin and jessica welcome and i'm going to 670 00:52:52.319 --> 00:52:54.880 introduce both of you together so that we again 671 00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:59.200 optimize time and not lose uh any more time in between 672 00:52:59.200 --> 00:53:02.800 we would love to know from you what you are doing 673 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:06.880 uh within your institutions uh because i'm sure you know these 674 00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:11.520 uh eight nine months have been uh like all hands on the deck 675 00:53:11.520 --> 00:53:16.800 approach and very fast iterative problem solving in a sort of approach 676 00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:20.960 but as you are sharing uh along with what you're what along with 677 00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:23.119 sharing what you're doing within your 678 00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:26.800 institutions uh we would really like you to share 679 00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:30.160 some of the lessons learned how you have adapted 680 00:53:30.160 --> 00:53:34.319 you know what you started with and it didn't work maybe uh so some lessons 681 00:53:34.319 --> 00:53:37.200 learned and anything that you have created 682 00:53:37.200 --> 00:53:42.319 um you know um as as you were sort of building and as you were going 683 00:53:42.319 --> 00:53:46.400 anything that you can share with the sector you know through this webinar uh 684 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:50.400 would really be good because we know that everyone is scrambling so with that 685 00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:54.640 i turn it over to kevin uh for you to first present 686 00:53:54.640 --> 00:53:58.400 okay thank you paul and thank you for having me here today 687 00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:04.240 uh next slide after uh three months of closure beginning in 688 00:54:04.240 --> 00:54:07.520 march we opened our doors back up in june 689 00:54:07.520 --> 00:54:12.880 uh but before we did that we focused on three primary areas 690 00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:18.400 our staff safety and protocols visitors safety and protocols and our building 691 00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:24.000 cleaning and safety we did a lot of work ahead of time 692 00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:27.080 drafting policies um 693 00:54:27.080 --> 00:54:31.680 [Music] we we implemented the temperature taking 694 00:54:31.680 --> 00:54:35.920 made sure we had ppe available 695 00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:40.559 socially distancing everybody not only in their offices but when they had to 696 00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:44.319 eat setting up plexiglass the one thing i 697 00:54:44.319 --> 00:54:47.520 think that was really helpful to the staff 698 00:54:47.520 --> 00:54:51.040 was safety and de-escalation training that 699 00:54:51.040 --> 00:54:56.960 um when we opened back up there was a fair amount of pushback in particular 700 00:54:56.960 --> 00:55:04.160 wearing a face mask and it did cost uh friction with visitors 701 00:55:04.160 --> 00:55:08.799 in pennsylvania there's a requirement that if you have a medical 702 00:55:08.799 --> 00:55:12.400 condition we can't question it so you can come in 703 00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:16.559 and a lot of people would come in without a mask 704 00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:19.680 if they didn't have a medical condition we would have to remove them from the 705 00:55:19.680 --> 00:55:23.760 property we had to do it a couple times so 706 00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:27.119 but we really prepared weeks in advance of opening 707 00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:29.839 next slide 708 00:55:32.720 --> 00:55:38.640 from a visitor's standpoint um we made it very clear to visitors 709 00:55:38.640 --> 00:55:41.680 what they could expect when they would visit 710 00:55:41.680 --> 00:55:46.480 we wanted them to wear masks we wanted social distancing 711 00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:50.559 directional signs we made sure that there's ppe 712 00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:54.079 available not only for employees but for visitors 713 00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:57.359 you can have a mask and maybe a strap breaks 714 00:55:57.359 --> 00:56:02.960 we wanted that to be available about a week or so ago and i don't know 715 00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:07.440 if you know in pennsylvania they closed down museums this past saturday 716 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:13.040 but prior to closing down we implemented mandatory temperature taking 717 00:56:13.040 --> 00:56:18.160 for visitors we had not done that from the start 718 00:56:18.160 --> 00:56:22.319 but we did implement it and surprisingly we only had one person 719 00:56:22.319 --> 00:56:26.559 push back so i think people felt comfortable 720 00:56:26.559 --> 00:56:31.119 knowing that i know the employees felt comfortable knowing we were doing it 721 00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:36.400 and actually appreciated it next slide please 722 00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:42.000 some of these uh things on this slide may answer questions i saw in the chat 723 00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:46.000 room but we we own 28 buildings over a million 724 00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:50.000 square foot under under roof um so as you can imagine we 725 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.640 really had to have detailed protocol for cleaning 726 00:56:52.640 --> 00:56:58.720 daily weekly monthly uh especially deep cleaning if someone is uh infected or 727 00:56:58.720 --> 00:57:03.760 believed to be infected um we had deep clean um 728 00:57:03.760 --> 00:57:06.960 we deep cleaned the touch the high touch areas with 729 00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:10.319 please don't ask me the technical side of this i just know what it's called 730 00:57:10.319 --> 00:57:15.359 qt3 or vital oxide misting 731 00:57:15.520 --> 00:57:19.920 but the other questions that i saw being asked were about air filtration 732 00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:24.960 and um we took this pretty serious because 733 00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:28.799 uh there was an article that came out about airborne 734 00:57:28.799 --> 00:57:31.920 uh infections so we made sure we had mervy 735 00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:37.079 pre-filters bag filters epithelders we spray the filters with an 736 00:57:37.079 --> 00:57:43.119 anti-microbial vericide periodically especially when we change 737 00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:46.400 them and then where it was possible we 738 00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:51.760 increased the outside air flow to the museums upwards of 10 15 739 00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:55.200 percent not as easy in an art museum as it is at 740 00:57:55.200 --> 00:58:00.079 a science center but we did what we could to increase 741 00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:02.720 that and then the other thing and sharon had 742 00:58:02.720 --> 00:58:07.359 touched on this we do atp testing in high touch 743 00:58:07.359 --> 00:58:11.760 areas which tests for uh energy molecules 744 00:58:11.760 --> 00:58:18.000 molecules or living uh cells it doesn't test for the virus but it 745 00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:22.240 tests for living cells so if there's something living there we clean it 746 00:58:22.240 --> 00:58:25.200 next slide please 747 00:58:26.559 --> 00:58:32.319 um lessons learned um probably we while more than likely we will do 748 00:58:32.319 --> 00:58:37.520 visitor temperatures from the get-go um the one thing we 749 00:58:37.520 --> 00:58:40.319 learned in taking temperatures with employees 750 00:58:40.319 --> 00:58:44.079 was we started out taking temperatures of employees 751 00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:49.119 in their cars as they were pulling in well the ambient heat from the car 752 00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:52.480 affected the temperature learned that real fast 753 00:58:52.480 --> 00:58:56.960 um we we decided to take the behind the scenes cleaning 754 00:58:56.960 --> 00:59:02.559 and make it visible so that visitors and the employees saw we were doing it 755 00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:05.280 because if you don't see it you don't think it's done 756 00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:09.760 uh we separated working groups repurposed areas for lunchrooms 757 00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:16.079 and we kept ahead of ppe um helpful resources and again this may 758 00:59:16.079 --> 00:59:21.280 answer one of your questions about the hvac there's a site called 759 00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:24.640 ashrae and the head of our facilities is the 760 00:59:24.640 --> 00:59:29.440 one that uh suggested that this may seem silly we actually googled 761 00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:34.160 a lot of higher education institutions they have a lot of backing 762 00:59:34.160 --> 00:59:38.079 a lot of money and a lot of ability to come up with white papers on 763 00:59:38.079 --> 00:59:42.799 what to do and in some cases we used it as backbone 764 00:59:42.799 --> 00:59:46.000 and then we also keep close on trade magazines aside 765 00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:51.839 from am and what we're presenting today there's a lot of information out there 766 00:59:51.839 --> 00:59:58.640 uh on boma and iamfa that's all thank you 767 00:59:58.839 --> 01:00:03.680 excellent very very tangible examples and tips thank you so much 768 01:00:03.680 --> 01:00:09.599 jessica absolutely hello thank you everybody my name is jessica chavez uh 769 01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:14.000 minus what my name says under my uh picture there but i'm with arizona 770 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:17.200 science center and i'm vice president of innovative learning strategies 771 01:00:17.200 --> 01:00:20.720 which is a little bit different for this uh webinar i was brought in 772 01:00:20.720 --> 01:00:24.720 actually just because of the adult education background that i have in 773 01:00:24.720 --> 01:00:29.359 working with our our facilities and our departments 774 01:00:29.359 --> 01:00:32.640 just really getting them aware of what kind of transition it would be 775 01:00:32.640 --> 01:00:36.640 going into reopening and we actually in fact opened twice 776 01:00:36.640 --> 01:00:40.400 uh so our first reopening was um at the end of may 777 01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:44.319 and then we decided there wasn't a government order but we just decided 778 01:00:44.319 --> 01:00:47.040 with our board that our numbers were a little bit uncomfortable 779 01:00:47.040 --> 01:00:50.400 uh so that we were gonna take a step back which is where we pivoted with our 780 01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:55.119 online virtual platforms we then opened again uh in the middle 781 01:00:55.119 --> 01:00:57.920 late june uh where we opened to the public where 782 01:00:57.920 --> 01:01:00.720 we had some great learnings from that so i have some 783 01:01:00.720 --> 01:01:04.880 um high level of what we did and how we transitioned but a lot of 784 01:01:04.880 --> 01:01:08.960 similar things to kevin as far as our cleaning our procedures and policies 785 01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:12.640 it took a lot of great minds to get that going so if you don't mind going to the 786 01:01:12.640 --> 01:01:14.880 next slide i can start with that overview 787 01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:18.720 and just how we tackle some of our guests in arizona it's a little bit 788 01:01:18.720 --> 01:01:22.240 different we have a mass mandate across the state 789 01:01:22.240 --> 01:01:24.720 now what that looks like when people come 790 01:01:24.720 --> 01:01:28.079 into our institution varies uh we've seen a lot of interesting 791 01:01:28.079 --> 01:01:33.520 things whether it's a a gator mask or a a regular standard 792 01:01:33.520 --> 01:01:37.040 mask or we've even seen some with a mesh uh 793 01:01:37.040 --> 01:01:39.920 opening in the mouth area so we've had to do a 794 01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:43.680 lot of uh regulating and training our staff as to what that looks like 795 01:01:43.680 --> 01:01:47.280 so i'm just giving you a little tidbit of what the training was and the ongoing 796 01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:50.960 training that we do to get our staff on board as well as to be able to educate 797 01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:54.319 the public because really we are one of the first 798 01:01:54.319 --> 01:01:58.720 places to uh reopen as a cultural institution in 799 01:01:58.720 --> 01:02:01.440 the state uh and some are still actually closed in 800 01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:04.240 fact uh but one was really just everyone getting a baseline 801 01:02:04.240 --> 01:02:08.079 of what coven 19 was we have four different generations in the workplace 802 01:02:08.079 --> 01:02:11.839 who have a different understanding and different uh depth of how much they read 803 01:02:11.839 --> 01:02:14.319 into things and so really getting everyone aware of 804 01:02:14.319 --> 01:02:18.240 covid19 what's the baseline verbiage that we're going to be using 805 01:02:18.240 --> 01:02:21.440 on staff as well as being able to share with the public 806 01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:24.720 part two was our reopening processes and procedures and 807 01:02:24.720 --> 01:02:28.720 knowing that it's a living document we have several iterations of what our 808 01:02:28.720 --> 01:02:32.400 reopening plan looks like and as our lawyers contributed our board 809 01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:36.720 contributed we have a covid committee uh that contributes in a daily 810 01:02:36.720 --> 01:02:40.240 leadership meeting that actually goes over all of the covet information 811 01:02:40.240 --> 01:02:44.319 to make sure we are staying as current as possible and then part three guest 812 01:02:44.319 --> 01:02:47.680 interactions and professional best practices you know we are a public 813 01:02:47.680 --> 01:02:51.680 institution we have lots of littles um on our site and how do we show that 814 01:02:51.680 --> 01:02:55.680 empathy as we open to the public and still have an inviting place where 815 01:02:55.680 --> 01:02:58.960 people can learn and be a model as to what this could look like 816 01:02:58.960 --> 01:03:03.839 during the pandemic so next slide please 817 01:03:04.240 --> 01:03:08.160 so one of the things we did as far as staff was we have daily health 818 01:03:08.160 --> 01:03:12.400 screenings so much like kevin we are taking temperatures of our staff 819 01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:15.760 each day but they also fill out a health screening just 820 01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:19.760 as part of their procedures when they come in as well as a location tracker so 821 01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:22.640 we know who's on site and offsite every day 822 01:03:22.640 --> 01:03:25.920 um again trying to stagger how many people we have 823 01:03:25.920 --> 01:03:31.520 on site and we are at below capacity as our ceo will say we are small and 824 01:03:31.520 --> 01:03:34.319 scrappy uh so we make sure we spread out 825 01:03:34.319 --> 01:03:37.920 accordingly as well but on top of that just something that's 826 01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:42.160 a little bit different than kevin we are not taking temperatures of our guests 827 01:03:42.160 --> 01:03:45.680 in arizona as you can imagine walking to our doors 828 01:03:45.680 --> 01:03:49.440 varies the temperature a little bit and so we found that was not something that 829 01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:53.359 was really uh doable for us on our end so um 830 01:03:53.359 --> 01:03:57.359 definitely adding um as guests enter we have security 831 01:03:57.359 --> 01:04:00.160 there to just kind of reinforce that we do have a mask 832 01:04:00.160 --> 01:04:03.760 policy we have hand sanitizer waiting with a guest 833 01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:09.039 um experience expert there to greet them as well as just understanding the safety 834 01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:12.720 practices along our ramp as you go down about the pandemic 835 01:04:12.720 --> 01:04:15.599 next slide please 836 01:04:16.880 --> 01:04:20.000 all right and so getting into the guest experiences so 837 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:24.240 um in arizona fortunately or unfortunately as you've probably seen we 838 01:04:24.240 --> 01:04:28.079 have made the news quite a bit uh for covid and just our numbers are a little 839 01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:32.079 high so it's been really important to making sure that we educate our guests 840 01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:36.079 and we do have a mass mandate and because we are a 841 01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:41.359 non-essential business we are very strictly enforcing that so even um 842 01:04:41.359 --> 01:04:45.680 down to where the cdc would recommend uh not using gators 843 01:04:45.680 --> 01:04:49.359 you know maybe or maybe not we have decided to take a strong stance on not 844 01:04:49.359 --> 01:04:52.319 allowing gators which are just those handkerchiefs that 845 01:04:52.319 --> 01:04:56.240 just kind of go up because you actually need double layers and some 846 01:04:56.240 --> 01:04:58.880 of our guests were not complying accordingly 847 01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:02.319 we do not allow the just the face shields again because of the 848 01:05:02.319 --> 01:05:07.520 transmission so we do have ppe available for our guests in two different sizes 849 01:05:07.520 --> 01:05:11.039 child and adult depending on what they need in addition 850 01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:15.680 to that we are providing each guest with a touchless tool as they enter and they 851 01:05:15.680 --> 01:05:18.880 pay so um some of our exhibits that were had 852 01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:23.440 interesting materials that we weren't quite sure what could be 853 01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:26.960 cleaned appropriately in a quick manner we have taken 854 01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:31.440 away from the public at this point but we have a lot of interactive 855 01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:34.720 exhibits that actually really interact with our touchless tools 856 01:05:34.720 --> 01:05:38.000 so upon entry everyone gets a touchless tool and a brief 857 01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:43.440 introduction as to how to utilize that a lot of our signage has changed just to 858 01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:49.359 um educate to keep people safe and aware of the space that they need to adhere to 859 01:05:49.359 --> 01:05:51.920 so having um occupancy limits on each of our 860 01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:56.480 galleries training our staff if we exceed those occupancy gout you 861 01:05:56.480 --> 01:06:00.400 know occupancy areas in our galleries and how 862 01:06:00.400 --> 01:06:03.920 to work with the staff and then also having one-way traffic in 863 01:06:03.920 --> 01:06:08.000 our main area so really just trying to control space in the flow as 864 01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:11.280 much as possible and then we do collect those touchless 865 01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:15.760 tools upon their exit they are available for purchase which has been a popular 866 01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:18.079 item but really ensuring that that is 867 01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:22.079 available for them and i guess um next slide which is 868 01:06:22.079 --> 01:06:26.400 lessons learned where we have um which is a little bit 869 01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:29.920 different so plan getting different brains in the room so to really get 870 01:06:29.920 --> 01:06:34.319 our our procedures and policies it took more than just our operations department 871 01:06:34.319 --> 01:06:36.880 it took me from the learning department it took 872 01:06:36.880 --> 01:06:41.599 our facilities managers really coming together with different eyes to ensure 873 01:06:41.599 --> 01:06:43.760 that we're really thinking about everything 874 01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:47.680 down to making sure we have photos under our name tags so that they know that 875 01:06:47.680 --> 01:06:52.000 we're human under those masks uh just simple things that really made 876 01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:54.880 us think about the whole picture not just 877 01:06:54.880 --> 01:07:00.720 um the day-to-day logistics of it really troubleshooting daily so we have 878 01:07:00.720 --> 01:07:02.880 a schedule where we have a leader on site 879 01:07:02.880 --> 01:07:06.319 each day so that's one of our leadership teams so that's really supporting our 880 01:07:06.319 --> 01:07:11.839 staff so they they see a face to help reinforce mask wearing or just to 881 01:07:11.839 --> 01:07:15.039 make sure that we're following procedures with a checklist that we're 882 01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:19.200 walking around so it's a separate role than our usual day-to-day role but 883 01:07:19.200 --> 01:07:22.640 something that's really been beneficial to not only our guests but 884 01:07:22.640 --> 01:07:25.920 also our staff and then having a daily report in our 885 01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:28.960 daily leadership meetings as to what's working what's not 886 01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:33.039 how do we quickly modify whether that's just adding more signage 887 01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:36.960 or changing our one-way traffic where it makes more sense to use 888 01:07:36.960 --> 01:07:41.280 us even down to how do we when we opened our theaters how do we actually 889 01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:45.520 structure it so we have procedures to keep things clean and spaced out 890 01:07:45.520 --> 01:07:48.880 um knowing that there's no going back to normal 891 01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:53.119 and that's okay but how do we pivot and how do we plan for right now 892 01:07:53.119 --> 01:07:56.240 but also look towards the future and so again 893 01:07:56.240 --> 01:08:01.680 with our safety on um procedures that we have on site really 894 01:08:01.680 --> 01:08:06.000 mimicking and mirroring that when we do our off-site programming as well 895 01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:10.160 and really knowing that the public looks to us as a model and so 896 01:08:10.160 --> 01:08:13.200 we've collected a lot of data and you know i i 897 01:08:13.200 --> 01:08:16.640 pride ourselves on this but the worst report is that we've been the the clean 898 01:08:16.640 --> 01:08:19.920 police uh which i will take any day of being 899 01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:22.880 the clean police uh you know when you come to visit us 900 01:08:22.880 --> 01:08:27.120 because they know that they're safe um and so that is kind of just the 901 01:08:27.120 --> 01:08:30.480 lessons learned and what we would change i think having our security 902 01:08:30.480 --> 01:08:34.080 to support us and having friendly security has been huge 903 01:08:34.080 --> 01:08:38.080 uh really having our staff understand how to interact with the public and to 904 01:08:38.080 --> 01:08:42.239 model those safety practices having visible cleaning crew 905 01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:45.040 on staff making sure on our website we model 906 01:08:45.040 --> 01:08:48.080 those types of things and then last but not least to some of 907 01:08:48.080 --> 01:08:51.199 the couple of the resources we used i really enjoyed 908 01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:57.440 the realm resources next slide please um the realm resource was a great for 909 01:08:57.440 --> 01:09:00.799 decision making and libraries so basically their opening checklist if you 910 01:09:00.799 --> 01:09:03.679 haven't checked this out please do because it was a great 911 01:09:03.679 --> 01:09:06.799 way to do a self check as to where we need to be 912 01:09:06.799 --> 01:09:11.440 um as well as some other resources like aam and our ceo is very big about 913 01:09:11.440 --> 01:09:14.719 bringing different resources in to speak to our leadership team or our 914 01:09:14.719 --> 01:09:17.520 president's club just so that we're really aware of 915 01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:20.719 what's happening in the industry and i think that's huge because 916 01:09:20.719 --> 01:09:23.679 you know what's happening in pittsburgh is a little bit different but we can be 917 01:09:23.679 --> 01:09:26.400 learning from each other so that's been a really big 918 01:09:26.400 --> 01:09:32.319 emphasis and then our cdc coveted track tracker um even the arizona one we are 919 01:09:32.319 --> 01:09:36.719 following that down to the minute so that's been a great resource and uh 920 01:09:36.719 --> 01:09:40.640 knowing that um in our situation in arizona we might 921 01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:43.120 have to make different policies and procedures 922 01:09:43.120 --> 01:09:47.120 that our governor may or may not have decided just yet just to make sure that 923 01:09:47.120 --> 01:09:50.560 we're keeping our guests safe and we're being a model of science 924 01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:55.920 i think that's it and i think my i'm so impressed you know 925 01:09:55.920 --> 01:09:59.600 you all are like doing so much but i know that i 926 01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:03.920 suggested only four to five slides but you packed it with 927 01:10:03.920 --> 01:10:07.440 information which i'm sure will be very very beneficial 928 01:10:07.440 --> 01:10:11.280 uh practical information you know one of the goals behind us 929 01:10:11.280 --> 01:10:16.000 doing this webinar was really to connect research to practice and i feel 930 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:19.440 really good as your hostess and moderator you know i feel 931 01:10:19.440 --> 01:10:22.480 we definitely accomplished that and i hope the 932 01:10:22.480 --> 01:10:27.360 uh the attendees would feel that too uh we only have like about six minutes left 933 01:10:27.360 --> 01:10:34.239 um but i would like to um dan if we can um yeah i think i'll ask the last 934 01:10:34.239 --> 01:10:38.000 broad question to all of you and it's really 935 01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:41.280 a wrap-up you know for this webinar uh you 936 01:10:41.280 --> 01:10:44.400 saw and heard what the realm project has generated 937 01:10:44.400 --> 01:10:49.120 and what's coming up in terms of toolkits and other resources 938 01:10:49.120 --> 01:10:53.199 you shared and heard what others are doing and jessica just like you 939 01:10:53.199 --> 01:10:58.400 mentioned i think one big need is for a continuing 940 01:10:58.400 --> 01:11:02.960 uh community of practice a forum where you know the ideas can be 941 01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:08.320 uh can be exchanged but my question my final question for all three of you and 942 01:11:08.320 --> 01:11:11.120 take two minutes this is rapid fire right 943 01:11:11.120 --> 01:11:17.600 um what are some areas of needs for your museums and your 944 01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:21.679 communities that the realm project or imls can 945 01:11:21.679 --> 01:11:26.159 address and i'll repeat it what are some areas 946 01:11:26.159 --> 01:11:31.600 of needs um you know face that that you are facing as your museum 947 01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:36.400 or your community is facing that the realm project or imls can 948 01:11:36.400 --> 01:11:41.840 address and anyone can go first 949 01:11:43.840 --> 01:11:48.000 and you might want to unmute yourself i was muted 950 01:11:48.000 --> 01:11:51.360 one thing that would be really helpful is a 951 01:11:51.360 --> 01:11:58.239 standard calculation of the 952 01:11:58.239 --> 01:12:03.840 positivity rate because it's confusing to people 953 01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:07.120 when for instance in pennsylvania allegheny county 954 01:12:07.120 --> 01:12:10.640 would measure one way the state would measure it another way 955 01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:14.000 and we as a museum would like to have a metric 956 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:18.800 by which we could measure and say to people we will close if this 957 01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:25.120 goes to this number we will open if it you know goes down to this number and 958 01:12:25.120 --> 01:12:30.640 it would just be good and maybe it's impossible to ask realm to do this but 959 01:12:30.640 --> 01:12:34.880 um you know a positivity calculation that would be consistent 960 01:12:34.880 --> 01:12:40.719 that everyone uses would be i think a great thing for us to have 961 01:12:40.719 --> 01:12:43.520 thank you kevin 962 01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:52.320 who wants to go with jessica or laura can go next um i guess you know just as 963 01:12:52.320 --> 01:12:56.400 a support just i mean the continued research and data sharing and just 964 01:12:56.400 --> 01:13:00.480 you know staying as current as possible as you know we know science changes 965 01:13:00.480 --> 01:13:05.040 uh and so just as much as we can share and just make people aware i think this 966 01:13:05.040 --> 01:13:08.800 was a great opportunity to have a webinar like this and to have this as an 967 01:13:08.800 --> 01:13:11.360 ongoing thing would be really beneficial for everybody 968 01:13:11.360 --> 01:13:14.640 and to get other institutions involved great 969 01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:17.360 that's what i was talking to our communications department that maybe 970 01:13:17.360 --> 01:13:22.159 this is a start of a series right where we continue the conversations 971 01:13:22.159 --> 01:13:26.080 thank you laura your last words yeah i i a lot of the 972 01:13:26.080 --> 01:13:31.199 museum folks that we're talking to are thinking about um reopening as 973 01:13:31.199 --> 01:13:35.520 we think about post pandemic and what you know 974 01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:40.159 uh rehabituation we need to do to welcome people back into 975 01:13:40.159 --> 01:13:43.760 our um our spaces and make them feel comfortable there and make them feel 976 01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:48.000 compelled to you know leave our um our their comfy 977 01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:51.280 couches and and our online presence and programs and 978 01:13:51.280 --> 01:13:55.120 websites uh to get back into museums spaces and 979 01:13:55.120 --> 01:13:57.920 and and programming so we're thinking about 980 01:13:57.920 --> 01:14:00.960 that and um how we can help you know architect 981 01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:06.080 that feature we want okay great um i know that our next slide 982 01:14:06.080 --> 01:14:09.840 was supposed to be q and a but we are really running short of time we just 983 01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:14.080 have one minute um i do want dan to bring up the uh the 984 01:14:14.080 --> 01:14:18.640 slide with our contact information uh if everyone wants to take down 985 01:14:18.640 --> 01:14:24.719 the emails maybe a quick picture of this slide and like i mentioned this uh the 986 01:14:24.719 --> 01:14:29.360 webinar is being recorded and you will find it on the realm site 987 01:14:29.360 --> 01:14:34.320 or the imls sign site as soon as they are ready but 988 01:14:34.320 --> 01:14:40.400 maybe if our gracious panelists are available for you know two three 989 01:14:40.400 --> 01:14:44.320 more minutes um let's look at the chat box or the 990 01:14:44.320 --> 01:14:48.640 question box and see if we can take maybe just two questions and then i 991 01:14:48.640 --> 01:14:57.840 promise we'll wrap it up 992 01:14:59.840 --> 01:15:03.280 do we have any questions 993 01:15:03.360 --> 01:15:08.159 for our panelists paula i see a question in the chat i know we probably don't 994 01:15:08.159 --> 01:15:13.600 have time to delve into this but around research on disinfecting surfaces or 995 01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:17.679 reducing transmission in historic house museums of course we know that's a big 996 01:15:17.679 --> 01:15:24.080 part of the um of the field and i uh i i don't know if there 997 01:15:24.080 --> 01:15:27.920 are materials specific to that kind of museum that 998 01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:32.719 we could include in you know future testing but we'd be open i know i am 999 01:15:32.719 --> 01:15:36.480 also sought you know advice from museums on what you 1000 01:15:36.480 --> 01:15:41.040 know kinds of materials could be tested and on what conditions so i think i 1001 01:15:41.040 --> 01:15:43.679 think there's an openness to do that if we know what 1002 01:15:43.679 --> 01:15:47.040 you know what we're missing is that right and 1003 01:15:47.040 --> 01:15:51.040 yeah and i'll just say um this is sharon is i i mentioned that question 1004 01:15:51.040 --> 01:15:55.120 submission form that can also be considered that a comment form so if the 1005 01:15:55.120 --> 01:15:59.440 if the commenter would like to just drop a form 1006 01:15:59.440 --> 01:16:03.120 in there and kind of list again like laura was saying specific materials 1007 01:16:03.120 --> 01:16:06.960 or conditions that you're thinking of then we can either crosswalk that to 1008 01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:11.040 research that we already have or it'll just inform our our planning 1009 01:16:11.040 --> 01:16:13.600 going forward 1010 01:16:14.080 --> 01:16:20.880 okay i think that's pretty that's a wrap and i just want to thank 1011 01:16:20.880 --> 01:16:24.960 all of you for participating on this webinar and 1012 01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:28.880 sharing your expert insights and i would just 1013 01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:34.080 like to thank all the attendees uh for you know your time and 1014 01:16:34.080 --> 01:16:40.960 wishing that everyone's remain safe and you know my mask up and like 1015 01:16:40.960 --> 01:16:44.480 maintain the social distancing all the things that we talk about and 1016 01:16:44.480 --> 01:16:47.440 jessica i loved what you said that the community 1017 01:16:47.440 --> 01:16:52.880 looks at museums as as role models and and that's a very big responsibility 1018 01:16:52.880 --> 01:16:57.520 that we have uh not only you know um still 1019 01:16:57.520 --> 01:17:00.719 still bringing in that fun and inspiration uh 1020 01:17:00.719 --> 01:17:05.440 in these you know times that can be depressing uh but also role modeling so 1021 01:17:05.440 --> 01:17:09.120 thank you all it was a pleasure hosting this webinar 1022 01:17:09.120 --> 01:17:14.719 and i want to thank imless and oclc and all our partners for doing some 1023 01:17:14.719 --> 01:17:20.000 really really important thank you thank you 1024 01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:31.840 thanks paula thank you 1025 01:17:35.360 --> 01:17:37.440 you