ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


November 1995/ 713

Preservation 
News

J a ne Hed berg

NDLF planning 
progresses
The National Digital Library 
F ed eration  (N D L F ) an­
nounced in September 1995 
that Patricia Battin, former 
president o f the Commission 
on Preservation and Access, 
had been a p p o in ted  c o ­
ordinator o f the project for 
six months. In addition, the 
IBM Corporation has pro­
vid e d  the ND LF w ith  a 
$100,000 planning grant and 
nine months o f technical sup­
port from  IBM research scientist, Henry 
Gladney.

During the planning phase, the NDLF is in­
terested in identifying additional institutions 
interested in membership. Libraries or archives 
wishing to join may express their interest by 
providing the Commission with a list o f cur­
rent and planned digital projects and an indi­
cation o f their institutional support for digital 
library resources. For more information, con­
tact the Commission on Preservation and Ac­
cess, 1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 740, Wash­
ington, DC 20036-2217; voice: (202) 939-3400; 
fax: (202) 939-3407; e-mail: mksitts@cpa.org.

Preservation Resources creates 
hom epage
Preservation Resources, formerly known as 
MAPS, The MicrogrAphic Preservation Service, 
has created a homepage on the World Wide 
Web. According to Meg Bellinger, president of 
Preservation Resources, “The . . . homepage 
provides an opportunity for us to display re­
search and development on digital access op­
tions to preservation microfilm.” The homep­
age includes examples o f images digitally 
scanned and indexed from microfilm, plus in­
formation on other aspects o f preservation mi­
crofilm, e.g., color and continuous tone micro­
film, the new generation o f cameras, prep­
aration o f materials for filming, filming nonbook 
and rare materials, and preserving microfilm. 
The homepage is located at http://www.oclc. 
org/oclc/presres/.

LC publishes film preservatio n  plan
The Library o f Congress published The National
Film  Preservation Plan: A n Im plem entation

 

Strategy in June 1995. This 
12-page report is the result 
o f three years study and 
provides an action plan for 
implementation o f the thirty 
recommendations found in 
the August 1994 report, Re­
defining Film Preservation. 
The report addresses three 
major areas: conservin g 
films, increasing funding o f 
and participation in film 
preservation, and expand­
ing public access. Copies 
are available free o f charge 

from Stephen Leggett, Motion Picture Division, 
Library o f Congress, Washington, DC 20540.

LC a w a r d s  deacidification contract
In July 1995 the Library o f Congress awarded 
Preservation Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a con­
tract for mass deacidification o f at least 72,000 
volumes over the next two years. PTI will treat 
LC’s books using its Bookkeeper III process. 
For more information about LC’s plans for mass 
deacidification, contact Kenneth E. Harris, Pres­
ervation Projects Director, Preservation Direc­
torate, Library o f Congress, LM-G21, Washing­
ton, DC 20540-4500; phone: (202) 707-1054; 
fax: (202) 707-3434; e-mail: khar@loc.gov.

For more information about the Bookkeeper 
III process, contact Richard Spatz, Chairman, 
Preservation Technologies, Inc., I l l  Thomson 
Park Drive, Cranberry Twp., PA l6 066; phone: 
(800) 416-BOOK; fax: (412) 779-9808.

By the w a y
The students and staff o f the Wellesley College 
Library Preservation Department have devel­
oped a simple digital cartoon strip to educate 
other students in proper treatment o f books 
and added it to the college’s Campus-Wide In­
formation System. The cartoon strip about use 
o f proper bookmarks may be found at http:// 
www.wellesley.edu/Library/Preserv/cartoonl.
html.

Jane Hedberg prepares this colu m n  f o r  the College 
Libraries Committee, Commission on Preservation 
a n d  Access. Submissions may be made to: Jane 
Hedberg, Wellesley College Library, 106 Central St., 
Wellesley, M A  02181; fa x : (6 1 7 ) 283-3640; e-mail: 

JHEDBERG@WELLESLEY.EDU.

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