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

AV workshop 
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic 
Artifacts (CCAHA) and PALINET are cospon­
soring “A Race Against Time: Preserving Our 
Audiovisual Media.” This two­day workshop 
will be held twice, first on April 24 and 25 
at the Catholic University of America in 
Washington, D.C., and then on October 24 
and 25 at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and 
Museum in Cleveland. Through lectures, 
discussions and hands­on exercises, partici­
pants will learn about intervening to preserve 
videotapes, audiotapes, motion picture fi lm, 
film strips, LPs, 78s, wax cylinders, and other 
audiovisual formats. 

Alan Lewis, a private consultant, is the 
principal speaker at both sessions. Anji 
Kalita Cornette (the Cutting Corporations) 
and Sarah Stauderman and Riccardo Fer­
rante (Smithsonian Institution Archives) are 
on the faculty of the Washington session. 
George Blood (Safe Sound Archive), Lisa 
Carter (University of Kentucky), and John 
Walko (Scene Savers) are on the faculty of 
the Cleveland session. 

This workshop costs $200. For more 
information or to register, contact CCAHA, 
Preservation Services Office, 264 South 
23rd St., Philadelphia, PA 19103; phone: 
(215) 545­0613; fax: (215) 735­9313; e­mail: 
ccaha@ccaha.org; URL: www.ccaha.org/pdf 
/AV07Announcement.pdf. 

Protecting family heirlooms 
The Library of Congress Preservation Direc­
torate, with support from the ALA Carnegie­
Whitney Award, has mounted, “Preparing, 
Protecting, Preserving Family Treasures.” 
This three­part Web site is designed to give 
the general public basic instruction in pre­
serving memorabilia. “Preparing Your Family 
Treasures” covers storage, location, emergen­

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

cy planning, and insurance. “Protecting Your 
Family Treasures Everyday” covers preven­
tion, handling, and displaying items safely. 
“Preserving Treasures after the Disaster” cov­
ers damage from water, contamination, mold, 
smoke and soot, and locating a conservator. 
Each section also includes links to Web sites 
with more detailed information. 

T h e  U R L  i s  w w w . l o c . g o v / p r e s e r v  
/familytreasures/index.html. 

PREMIS study 
The Library of Congress’ Network Devel­
opment and MARC Standards Offi ce has 
mounted “Rights in the PREMIS Data Model” 
on its Web site. This 32­page study by Karen 
Coyle was commissioned to provide back­
ground information for the first revision of 
the Preservation Metadata: Implementation 
Strategies’ (PREMIS) Data Dictionary for 
Preservation Metadata. This study explains 
digital rights for preservation activities, re­
views specific examples of digital rights and 
the preservation actions possible in such situ­
ations, relates copyright law to preservation 
actions, and recommends expansion of the 
current Data Dictionary. 

The URL for this study is www.loc.gov 
/standards/premis/Rights­in­the­PREMIS 
­Data­Model.pdf. 

Rare Book School course 
The California Rare Book School at UCLA is 
offering a summer course, “Preservation Stew­
ardship of Library Collections.” This week­long 
general introduction to contemporary preser­
vation methods and management will be held 
August 6–10, 2007, and will be taught by Mark 
Roosa (Pepperdine University). 

This course costs $995. For more infor­
mation or to register, contact Claire Raffel, 
The California Rare Book School, 254 GSEIS 
Building, Box 951520, Los Angeles, CA 
90095­1520; phone: (310) 794­4138; fax: 
(310) 206­4460; e­mail: calrbs@gseis.ucla. 
edu; URL: www.calrbs.org/index.html. 

April 2007  255 C&RL News 

www.calrbs.org/index.html
mailto:calrbs@gseis.ucla
http:www.loc.gov
www.loc.gov/preserv
mailto:jane_hedberg@harvard.edu
www.ccaha.org/pdf
mailto:ccaha@ccaha.org