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

ARSC preconference workshop 
The Association for Recorded Sound Collec­
tions (ARSC) is offering “The Assessment, 
Preservation, and Access of Audio Collec­
tions in the Digital Age: An Archival Case 
Study” on March 30, 2005, in Austin, Texas. 
Presenters include Mike Casey of the Ar­
chives of Traditional Music at Indiana Uni­
versity, and Rob Ray, Wendy Sistrunk, and 
Chuck Haddix from the University of Mis­
souri­Kansas City. 

The conference costs $70.00 for ARSC 
members or $85.00 for nonmembers regis­
tering before March 4. Late registration costs 
an additional $10.00. For more information, 
contact Nancy Seeger, 1433 East Capitol St., 
SE, Washington, DC 20003­1535; phone: 
(202) 707­5494; e­mail: nsee@loc.gov. For 
more information about the conference, 
see www.arsc­audio.org/conference2005. 
html. 

Sound Savings 
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) 
has published a print version of Sound 
Savings: Preserving Audio Collections: Pro­
ceedings from the Symposium, a conference 
held at the University of Texas at Austin in 
July 2003. It was originally published on­
line and is still available free­of­charge at 
www.arl.org/preserv/sound_savings_pro­
ceedings/. 

The new version of the proceedings costs 
$45.00, plus shipping and handling, and is 
available from ARL Publications Distribution 
Center, P.O. Box 531, Annapolis Junction, 
MD 20701­0531; phone: (301) 362­8196; fax: 
(301) 206­9789; e­mail: pubs@arl.org; Web 
site: www.arl.org/pubscat/order/. ISBN: 1­
59407­663­4. 

The Bonefolder 
There is a new online publication for book­

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

binders and book artists called The Bone­
folder. It is a peer­reviewed, open­access 
e­journal intended to complement other 
publications in the field. The fi rst issue, 
published in the fall of 2004, contains “The 
Study of Bookbinding” by Pamela Bar­
rios, “Bookbinding Education in North 
America” by Jeffrey Altepeter, “The Tran­
scendental DRUM LEAF” by Timothy Ely, 
“Conservation and Tools: An Inquiry into 
Nature and Meaning” by Jeffrey Peachey, 
“Spring [binding] Hath Sprung: A Bind­
O­Rama Celebrating a Distinctive Tech­
nique,” and “A Traveling Punching Jig” by 
Donia Conn. 

The Bonefolder is available free­of­charge 
at www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder. Issue 
number one is 1.6MB and can be read most 
easily by downloading to a hard disk or 
printing out using Adobe Acrobat Reader. 
To subscribe to receive e­mail notifi cation 
of new issues, go to www.philobiblon.com/ 
bonefolder/subscribe.htm. 

School for Scanning 
The Northeast Document Conservation 
Center (NEDCC) will offer another “School 
for Scanning: Building Good Digital Col­
lections” from June 1 to 3, 2005 in Boston, 
Massachusetts. This is the 10th anniversary 
conference, and it will cover content selec­
tion for digitization, copyright and other le­
gal issues, text and image digitization, au­
dio and video digitization, metadata, the IT 
perspective, essentials of delivery systems, 
business models, outsourcing and vendor 
relations, and digital preservation. The fac­
ulty includes more than fi fteen nationally 
recognized experts. 

The conference costs $410.00, and the 
registration deadline is May 3, 2005. For 
more information, contact NEDCC, 100 
Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810­1494; 
phone: (978) 470­1010; fax: (978) 475­6021; 
Web site: www.nedcc.org/sfsbos/sfsdesc. 
htm. 

February 2005  133 C&RL News 

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http:www.philobiblon.com
www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder
mailto:jane_hedberg@harvard.edu
www.arl.org/pubscat/order
mailto:pubs@arl.org
www.arl.org/preserv/sound_savings_pro
www.arsc-audio.org/conference2005
mailto:nsee@loc.gov