ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


J u ly /A u g u s t 1 9 9 7 / 5 0 1

Promoting preservation 
awareness
P r o m o tin g  P r e s e r v a tio n  
A w areness in  Libraries-. A 
Source Book f o r  Academ ic, 
Public, School a n d  Special 
Collections w as sc h ed u led  
for publication in May. The 
384-page b o o k  w as edited 
by Jeanne Drewes, head of 
p r e s e r v a tio n  a t J o h n s  
H o p k in s  U n iv e r s ity ’s 
Eisenhower Library, and Julie 
Page, preservation librarian at 
the University o f California- 
San Diego Library, and offers information on 
creating and evaluating preservation education 
programs for staff and library customers. As­
suming that dam aging misuse o f library mate­
rials is most often caused by ignorance, the 
book focuses on engaging the attention and 
changing the attitudes of all types of library 
users. It contains chapters o n  the basic issues, 
as well as effective programs for school, p u b ­
lic, and academic libraries, and special collec­
tions and archives. It also includes case stud­
ies, graphics, a videography, and a bibliography. 
Copies are available for $75.00 through your 
book vendor. Published as part of the G reen­
w ood Library M anagement Collection, ISBN 0- 
313-30206-5.

NEDCC offers leaflet in Spanish
The Northeast Docum ent Conservation Center 
(NEDCC) has translated its technical leaflet Care 
o f Photographs into Spanish. Originally written 
in English by Gary Albright, senior photographs 
conservator at the center, the leaflet covers the 
proper storage procedures an d  environm ent 
necessary to prolong the life o f photographs. 
Copies are available for the cost of the mailing. 
Send a self-addressed envelope, stam ped with 
.55 cents postage to Gay Tracy, NEDCC, 100 
Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810-1494; 
phone: (508) 470-1010; e-mail: tracy@nedcc.org.

School for Scanning
NEDCC will hold its fourth “School for Scan­
ning” at the New York Academy o f Medicine 
in Manhattan, on November 3-5,1997. The con­
tent and format will closely resem ble the third 
“School for Scanning” w hich w as held May 
12-14, 1997, in Berkeley, California. Designed

Preservation 
N e ws

Jane Hedberg

for novices in digital conver­
sion, it will cover the basics 
of technology, technical jar­
gon, file formats, co n ten t 
selection, legal issues, text 
and image scanning, qual­
ity control, costs, metadata, 
a n d  CD-ROM  o r W o rld  
Wide W eb applications. For 
m ore inform ation, contact 
Kim O ’Leary, NEDCC, 100 
Brickstone Square, Andover, 
MA 0181 0 -1 4 9 4 ; p h o n e : 
(508) 470-1010; fax: (508) 
475-6021; e-mail: oleary@

nedcc.org.

CCAHA forms volunteer disaster corps
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic 
Artifacts (CCAHA) has created  a V olunteer 
Corps Disaster Recovery Training Program us­
ing funding provided by the William Penn Foun­
dation. Volunteers w ere solicited to provide 
disaster recovery assistance for institutions with 
historic collections in six Pennsylvania coun­
ties. The volunteers had to have som e prior 
experience with collections, as curators, con­
servators, etc., and be willing to receive two 
days o f training in September 1997. Following 
the training they will be listed on CCAHA’s 
Emergency Resources list, and may be called 
u p o n  to aid during a local disaster. For more 
information about the program, contact Virgilia 
Rawnsley, Director o f Preservation Services, 
CCAHA, 264 South 23rd St., Philadelphia, PA 
19103; phone: (215) 545-0613; fax: (215) 735- 
9313; e-mail: CCAHA@shrsys.hslc.org.

Preservation education opportunities
A gentle reminder: you may be able to look to 
your local OCLC services provider for preser­
vation education. SOLINET in the Southeast, 
AMIGOS in T exas an d  th e Southw est, and 
NELINET in New England all offer excellent 
preservation w orkshops as part of their train­
ing programs. ■

J a n e  Hedberg prepares this co lu m n  f o r  the College 
Libraries Committee, Comm ission o n  Preservation a n d  
Access. Subm issions m a y  be m a d e  to: J a n e  Hedberg, 
Wellesley College Library, 1 0 6  Central St., Wellesley, MA 
02181; fa x : (6 17)283-3640; e-mail: JHEDBERG@ 
WELLESLEY.EDU.

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