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

“Shelter from the Stormy Blast” 
The Atlanta Regional Council for Higher 
Education (ARCHE), the Society of Georgia 
Archivists (SGA), and the Southern Librar­
ies Regional Network (SOLINET) mounted 
an online emergency preparedness guide, 
“Shelter from the Stormy Blast: A Guide to 
Disaster Recovery Services for Georgia and 
the Southeast.” It is meant to bridge the gap 
between general advice and practical action. 
It provides an overview of national, regional, 
and local emergency networks. It also lists 
questions for evaluating vendors of emergency 
services, definitions of recovery technologies 
and terminology, yellow pages headings for 
identifying local service providers, and com­
mon abbreviations. 

The URL for this Web site is soga.org 
/resources/disasterplanning.php. 

Preservation 101 
The Northeast Document Conservation Center 
(NEDCC) released “Preservation 101: Preserva­
tion Basics for Paper and Media Collections,” 
an online course that may be sampled selec­
tively, used as a static textbook, or engaged 
interactively with a facilitator. The course 
consists of eight sessions: Introduction to Pres­
ervation, Deterioration of Paper Collections, 
Deterioration of Film and Electronic Media, the 
Building and Environment, Collections Care, 
Reformatting and Treatment, Disaster Plan­
ning, and Building a Preservation Program. 
Each session includes lessons, checklists, 
worksheets, and assignments. After session 
eight a final assignment unites the previous 
assignments and helps set short­, medium­, 
and long­term preservation priorities. 

Preservation 101 was funded by the 
Institute of Museum and Library Services 
and is available free of charge at www. 
preservation101.org. For more information, 
contact Lori Foley at NEDCC, phone: (978) 470­

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

1010; fax: (978) 475­6021; e­mail: lfoley@nedcc. 
org; URL: www.nedcc.org. 

Digital preservation workshop 
The Inter­university Consortium for Political 
and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University 
of Michigan is offering Digital Preservation 
Management: Short­Term Solutions for Long­
Term Problems on October 19­24, 2008 in 
Ann Arbor, Michigan. This fi ve­day workshop 
builds on the digital curriculum developed at 
Cornell University. It will cover introductory 
information, terminology, obsolete and endan­
gered media, challenges, and components of 
a digital preservation program with an online 
tutorial. It will cover organizational context, 
OAIS, digital preservation in practice, requisite 
resources, and next steps during the onsite 
classes. Nancy McGovern and Aprille McKay 
of ICPSR are the instructors. This workshop 
will be offered again in May 2009, October 
2009, and May 2010. 

Registration costs $750 (additional support 
has been supplied by the National Endowment 
for the Humanities). For more information, con­
tact ICPSR, phone: (734) 647­5000; fax: (734) 
647­8200; e­mail: digital­preservation@icpsr. 
umich.edu; URL: http://www.icpsr.umich. 
edu/dpm/workshops/fi veday.html. 

NCPC Annual Conference 
The North Carolina Preservation Consortium 
(NCPC) will hold its annual conference, Cul­
tural Respect in Preservation and Conservation, 
November 20, 2008, at the University of North 
Carolina­Chapel Hill. Speakers include Michele 
Cloonan (Simmons College), Marian Kaminitz 
(Smithsonian Institution), Karen Jefferson (At­
lanta University Center), and Corine Wegener 
(Minneapolis Institute of Arts). 

Registration costs $60 for NCPC members 
and $75 for nonmembers. For more informa­
tion, contact Robert James at NCPC, phone: 
(919) 660­1157; e­mail: robertjamesncpc@gmail. 
com; URL: ncpreservation.org. 

C&RL News July/August 2008  416 

http:ncpreservation.org
http://www.icpsr.umich
http:umich.edu
http:www.nedcc.org
mailto:jane_hedberg@harvard.edu
http:preservation101.org
http:soga.org