ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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

R u tg e rs  p re s e rv a tio n  in s titu te
The School of Com m unication, Inform ation 
a n d  Library Science (SOLS) at Rutgers Uni­
versity is again offering its “Preservation Man­
agem ent Institute” at the University Inn and 
Conference Center in New Brunswick, New 
Jersey. This institute will provide a broad u n ­
derstanding of preservation issues for profes­
sionals w orking in libraries and archives. The 
curriculum  covers environm ental conditions, 
collections care a nd storage, preservation sur­
veys, audiovisual materials, exhibitions, se­
lection for preservation, library binding, di­
saster preparedness planning, digital imaging 
p o lic ie s  a n d  p la n n in g , fu n d ra isin g , a n d  
grantwriting.

The 15-day institute is divided into three 
five-day segm ents over the course of a year, 
m eeting O ctober 28-N ovem ber 1, 2002, April 
7-11, 2003, and Septem ber 15-19, 2003- The 
faculty is led by Evelyn Frangakis and includes 
a num ber of guest lecturers.

Registration costs $3,995 and includes class 
instruction, course materials, and field trips, 
plus lunches and coffee breaks on class days. 
Enrollment is limited. Payments may be made 
over tw o fiscal years. For m ore information, 
contact Karen Novick, Professional D evelop­
m ent Studies, SCLIS, Rutgers University, 4 
H untington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901- 
1071; phone: (732) 932-7169; fax: (732) 932- 
9314; e-mail: p ds@ scils.rutgers.edu; Web: 
http://scils.rutgers.edu/p d s /p m i. jsp.

C C A H A  d is a s te r p re p a re d n e s s  
w o rk s h o p s
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic 
Artifacts (CCAHA) will hold a series of three 
one-day w orkshops titled “Disaster Mitigation 
for Cultural Collections” on  June 25-27, 2002, 
at the New York Genealogical and Biographi­
cal Society in Manhattan. The first w orkshop is 
“Be Prepared . . . Conducting a Vulnerability 
Assessment,” the second is “Be Prepared . . . 
Assessing Health and Safety Risks,” and the 
third is “Be Prepared . . . Mitigating Fire and 
Security Risks.”

Registration for on e w orkshop is $60, two 
w orkshops is $120, and three w orkshops is

$170. D iscounts are available for m em bers of 
CCAHA, the Archivists Roundtable of Metro­
politan New York, the M useum Association 
of New York, the New York Library Club, and 
the Special Libraries Association’s N ew York 
Chapter. For m ore information, contact Pres­
ervation Services, CCAHA, 264 South 23rd 
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103; phone: (215) 
545-0613; fax: (2 1 5 ) 7 3 5 -9313; e -m a il: 
ccaha@ ccaha.org; Web: h ttp ://w w w .c c a h a . 
org.

C o n s e rv a tio n -q u a lity  p o ly e s te r f ilm  
Two o f the best-know n brands o f polyethyl­
ene terephthalate (PET) film, D uPont’s Mylar 
D and I d ’s Mellinex 516, are no  longer in 
production by the m anufacturers. The Pres­
ervation Research and Testing Division of the 
Library o f Congress (LC) has beg u n  testing 
alternative products for use in LC’s conserva­
tion operations and is reporting the results 
on the LC W eb site. So far, they have identi­
fied H ostaphan 43SM, m ade by Mitsubishi 
Polyester Film, L.L.C. of Greer, South Caro­
lina, as an acceptable substitute.

For m ore inform ation about the LC re ­
search, visit http://w w w .loc.gov/preserv/. For 
m ore inform ation about M itusubishi Polyes­
ter Film, visit h ttp ://w w w .m -petfilm .com /.

W h a t is v a lu e d
Miriam Clavir, senior conservator in the Mu­
seum  of A nthropology at the University of 
British Columbia, is the author of Presew ing 
W hat Is Valued: M useums, Conservation, a n d  
First Nations. A lthough w ritten in the very 
specific context of m useum s and First Na­
tions cultural materials, this book wrestles with 
the issue that is at the heart of all preserva­
tion: just w hat should w e preserve? Is it p o s ­
sible to reconcile preservation of the physi­
cal, conceptual, a n d  intellectual integrity of 
an object?

(c o n tin u e d  on p a g e  3 0 1 )

Jane Hedberg is preservation program  office r at Harvard 
University Library, e-mail: jane_hedberg@harvard.edu; fax: 
(617) 496-8344

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chaplain in W orld W ar II and his subsequent 
W est T exas c a re e r w h e n  h e  se rv e d  as 
postm aster of Sanco in Coke County and was 
the ow ner of several West Texas new spapers. 
4) A collection of Elmer Kelton’s writing 
career includes 250 books a n d  m ore than 75 
pulp magazines and other ephem era. 5) Mike 
Cox d onated materials he collected while 
doing the biography Fred Gipson: Texas 
Storyteller, published in 1980. The materials 
include manuscripts, correspondence, and 
m ovie-related materials from Old Yeller and 
other movies p ro d u ced  from G ipson’s books. 
6) Retired West Texas new spaperm an Bill 
Hinnant gave WTC the research he com pleted 
over several years on  Texas cattle claims to the 
federal governm ent for losses sustained during 
the M exican Revolution.

The papers o f Canadian fictio n  publisher 
Prairie Fire have been  donated to the University 
of M anitoba Libraries. The papers include

( “New Publications” continuedfro m  p a g e 299)

International Librarianship: Cooperation 
and Collaboration, edited by Frances Laverne 
Carroll and John Frederick Harvey (367 pages, 
September 2001), brings together 32 essays on 
how  librarians have transferred ideas and tech­
nology to libraries in other, usually less devel­
oped, countries. Specific topics include the new  
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the University of São 
Paulo library system, the ABINIA Ibero-Ameri­
can network, university libraries in West Af­
rica, IFLA initiatives, librarianship in Iran since 
1979, docum entation centers on  public health, 
and international marine science networks. The 
editors dedicate the book to the m em oiy of 
Lester Asheim. $65-00. Scarecrow. ISBN 0-8108- 
3921-0.

Lice n sin g  D ig ita l C o ntent, by Lesley Ellen 
Harris (137 pages, February 2002), covers ev­
ery basic step in the process of negotiating 
and interpreting licensing agreem ents with 
vendors of electronic databases or journals. 
Written from a perspective of global licenses, 
the instructions and insights will apply equally 
to Canadian and European agreem ents. Har­
ris p ro v id e s d o w n -to -e a rth  d efinitions o f 
term s fo u n d  in agreem ents a n d  discusses 
m any types o f provisions, b o th  pivotal and 
boilerplate, that are found in written licenses.

materials relating to the w orkings of this small 
press, including correspondence, reviews, 
material relating to the p ress’ annual writing 
com petitions, a n d  manuscripts.

D ra w in g s  o f T e xas a rch ite ct O 'N eil Ford 
(1905-82) have been  donated to the Alexander 
Architectural Archive at the University of 
Texas at Austin by his widow , W anda Graham  
Ford. T h e gift in c lu d e s  5,540 o rig in a l 
a rc h ite c tu ra l d raw in g s, 5,484 prints, 40 
p r e s e n ta tio n  d raw in g s, 39 p re s e n ta tio n  
sketches, and 63 sheets of photographic 
materials. The donation covers Ford’s w ork 
through 1966 and com plem ents an earlier gift 
to the Alexander Architectural Archive of 
Ford’s office files, personal papers, and books. 
Ford’s m ost notable projects include the 
restoration of La Villita and designs for the 
n e w  cam pus for Trinity University in San 
Antonio, Texas, and Skidmore College in New 
York. ■

Also included is a ch ap ter o n  negotiation 
techniques, and frequently asked questions 
a n d  answ ers. $45.00. Am erican Library As­
sociation. ISBN 0-8389-0815-2.

R eading Popular Rom ance in Early M od­
ern E n g la n d , by Lori Hum phrey Newcomb 
(332 pages, January 2002), examines the ori­
gins of Elizabethan popular fiction and its in­
fluence on more elite literary forms. Newcomb 
takes Robert Greene’s romance Pandosto (1585) 
as a case study, addressing Shakespeare’s use 
of it as a source for The W inter’s Play and how  
both works w ere modified or recommodified 
for different audiences up  to the 19th century. 
In the process, Newcomb shows how  the crit­
ics’ denigration of popular romances as crude 
trivialities distanced them  from accepted ven­
ues, even though they shared a com m on cul­
tural dynamic. $49.50. Columbia University. 
ISBN 0-231-12378-7.

( “Preservation new s” continued fr o m  p a g e 296) 
Copies of this b ook are available for $95 

from the University of W ashington Press, P.O. 
Box 50096, Seattle, WA, 98145-5096; phone: 
(800) 441-4115; toll-free fax: (800) 669-7993; 
e-m ail: uw pord@ u.w a s h in g to n .e d u ; Web: 
http ://w w w .w ash in g to n .ed u /u w p ress; ISBN: 
0774808608. ■

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