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

CCI TB about mold 
The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) has 
published Technical Bulletin #26, Mould Pre­
vention and Collection Recovery: Guidelines 
for Heritage Collections by Sherry Guild and 
Maureen MacDonald. In 34 pages, the au­
thors cover the nature of mold, preventing its 
growth, dealing with an outbreak, cleaning ar­
tifacts and storage areas, plus special cleaning 
methods for some types of artifacts, follow­up 
after cleaning, health risks, and personal pro­
tective equipment. 

There are instructions for removing mold 
from books, paper, artifacts in boxes or folders, 
parchment or vellum, photographs, magnetic 
media, film (negatives, slides, microfi lm and 
fiche), art on paper, paintings, textiles, baskets, 
leather, wood, bone, glass, ceramics, metal, 
rubber, and plastic. The bulletin also contains 
a list of suppliers, a bibliography, a list of Web 
sites, and other sources of information. 

The bulletin costs $20.00 US, plus ship­
ping and handling. ISBN 0­662­35932­1. To 
order direct, contact the Publications Sales 
Office, CCI, 1030 Innes Road, Ottawa ON 
K1A 0M5, Canada; phone: (613) 998­3721, 
ext. 250; e­mail: cci­icc_publications@pch. 
gc.ca; URL: https://www.cci­icc.gc.ca 
/bookstore/index­e.cfm. 

Winterthur advice for collectors 
Winterthur Museum has published the sec­
ond volume in its Decorative Arts series, The 
Winterthur Guide to Caring for Your Collec­
tion. This 150­page paperback offers Win­
terthur conservators’ advice for caring for 
personal collections of books, photographs, 
prints, drawings, paintings, textiles, furniture, 
and decorative arts. It provides help with de­
ciding what to do on one’s own and when to 
call a professional conservator. It has lists of 
resources for conservation services, readings, 
and Web sites, plus photographs of objects 
before and after treatment. 

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

The book costs $17.95. ISBN: 0­912724­
52­8. To order direct, contact the Winterthur 
Museum Bookstore, Route 52, Winterthur, DE 
19735; phone: (800) 448­3883; fax: (800) 888­
4890; e­mail: bookstore@winterthur.org; URL: 
www.winterthur.org/about/our_publications. 
asp?sub=decorative_arts. 

NFPA renovation guide 
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 
has published Fire Safe Building Rehabilitation, 
by John M. Watts Jr., director of the Fire Safety 
Institute, and Marilyn E. Kaplan, a preservation 
architect. This 400­page book explains how to 
meet contemporary fire safety codes while sym­
pathetically renovating a historic building. It cov­
ers applicable rules and regulations, prescriptive 
and performance­based codes, active and pas­
sive fire protection, fire safety during construc­
tion, and cost effective compliance alternatives. 
It includes a working plan for architectural, struc­
tural, and fire safety evaluations; case studies; 
check lists; forms; and illustrations. 

The book costs $69.95. Item number FSBR03. 
To order direct, contact NFPA, 1 Batterymarch 
Park, Quincy, MA 02169­7471; phone: (800) 344­
3555; fax: (617) 770­0700; e­mail: custserv@nfpa. 
org; URL: www.nfpa.org/catalog. 

Board shear video 
The Guild of Book Workers (GBW) produced a 
video, Examination of the Jacques Board Shear 
with Bill Minter, during its 2000 Standards of Ex­
cellence Meeting in Salt Lake City. The video ex­
plains how to service and maintain a board shear, 
especially a Jacques board shear. Bill Minter is a 
bookbinder and conservator in private practice. 

The video costs $25.00 to GBW members and 
$40.00 to nonmembers, plus $5.00 per video for 
shipping and handling. Prepayment required. 
To order direct, send a copy of the online form 
found at palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw 
/publications/videoorder.pdf to Alicia Bailey, 
GBW Treasurer, P.O. Box 200984, Denver, 
CO 80220­0984; fax: (720) 859­7357; URL: 
palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw/publications. 
shtml. The video is also available for loan to GBW 
members from the GBW library.

278 / C&RL NewsMay 2004 

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