ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ November 2002 /  737

P r e s e r v a t i o n  N e w s
Jane Hedberg

CCAHA le a fle t
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic 
Artifacts (CCAHA) has published Disaster Re­
covery: Salvaging Books, by Glen Ruzicka, direc­
tor of conservation. It deals specifically with 
recovering w et books and includes a checklist 
for immediate response to a water emergency, 
a review  o f drying and treatm ent options, a 
glossary of terms, and a selected bibliography. 
This title is the third technical bulletin in a 
series that includes Disaster Recovery: Salvaging 
Art on Paper and Disaster Recovery: Salvaging Pho­
tograph Collections.

Copies of any of the technical bulletins are 
$3.50 each. Order forms are available from the 
CCAHA Web site at h ttp ://w w w .ccah a.o rg , 
click on “Publications.” The text of Salvaging 
Photograph Collections is also available online and 
may be printed free of charge.

Collection re v ie w
Guide to Review o f Library Collections: Preserva­
tion, Storage, a n d  Withdrawal, no. 12 in the series 
“Collection M anagem ent and D evelopm ent 
Guide, "w as published in June 2002. Edited 
by Dennis K. Lambert, Winston Atkins, Dou­
glas A. Litts and Lorraine H. Olley, the 60- 
page guide covers the process of conducting a 
collection review, from the earliest stages 
through the final report. It goes on to cover 
possible consequences of a collection review, 
e.g., preservation, transfer to remote storage, 
or discard. The section on preservation consid­
ers the elements of a preservation review pro­
gram, principles, identification of materials in 
need, priorities, and options.

The guide is available for $19.95 from 
Scarecrow Press or most book suppliers. ISBN: 
0-8108-4510-5.

D ig ita l preservation
The Council on Library and Information Re­
sources (CLIR) has published The State o f Digi­
tal Preservation: A n International Perspective. It is 
a collection of papers p resen ted  at the first 
Documentation Abstracts, Inc. (DAI) Institutes 
for Inform ation Science held in April 2002. 
The publication includes “Introduction: The 
Changing Preservation Landscape” by Deanna

Marcum o f CLIR; “Overview of T echnologi­
cal A pproaches to Digital Preservation and 
Challenges in Coming Years” by K enneth 
T hibodeau of the N ational Archives and 
Records Administration; “The Digital Preser­
v a tio n  R esearch  A g e n d a ” by M argaret 
Hedstrom of the School of Information at the 
University of Michigan; “Understanding Digi­
tal Preservation: A Report from OCLC” by Meg 
Bellinger; “Update on the National Digital In­
frastructure Initiative” by Laura Campbell of 
the Library of Congress; “Experience o f the 
National Library of the N etherlands” by Titia 
van der Werf, “Digital Preservation—A Many­
Layered Thing: Experience at the National Li­
brary of Australia” by Colin Webb; and “Good 
Archives Make Good Scholars: Reflections on 
Recent Steps Toward the Archiving of Digital 
Inform ation” by D onald Waters of the An­
drew W. Mellon Foundation.

Full-text o f the publication is available 
free-of-charge in b o th  HTML and PDF at 
h t t p : / / w w w . c l i r . o r g / p u b s / a b s t r a c t /  
p u b 107abst.html.

C ellulose a c e ta te  W eb site
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has 
launched a new  Web site, ANICA: Australian 
Network for Information on Cellulose Acetate. 
NLA hopes that ANICA will help ensure con­
tinuing access to Australia’s documentary heri­
tage that exists on photographic negatives, 
motion picture film, microfilm, microfiche, and 
audio discs made of cellulose acetate. Although 
intended for Australians, the site includes in­
formation of interest to an international audi­
ence, e.g., condition assessment guidelines, stor­
age issues and options, health and safety infor­
mation. and an annotated bibliography.

ANICA is available at h ttp ://w w w .n la . 
gov.au/anica. ■

Jane Hedberg is preservation pro g ra m  o ffic e r a t Harvard 
University Library, e-mail : jane_hedberg@ harvard.edu; fax: 
(6 1 7 ) 496-8344

http://www.ccaha.org
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/
http://www.nla
gov.au/anica
mailto:jane_hedberg@harvard.edu