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

Video clips 
“Video Aids to Film Preservation,” a Web 
site about preservation of motion picture 
film, audio tape, and video tape, has added 
21 new demonstrations to its video clip col­
lection. Developed to illustrate the National 
Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) Guide 
to Film Preservation, each short clip covers 
a specific technique. The newest clips focus 
on emergency preparedness, emergency 
recovery, and splicing. 

The clips about emergencies include key 
procedures for disaster response, activating 
erase locks on cassettes, activating brakes 
on small gauge video or audio cassettes, 
rewinding tapes and cassettes to prevent ex­
posure to damage, winding fi lm, identifying 
materials for disaster recovery, washing and 
handling wet film, handling water­soaked 
35mm polyester film, taking an 8mm video­
tape cassette apart, reassembling an 8mm 
videotape cassette, and reinforcing a splice 
with dental fl oss. 

The URL for “Video Aids” is www.folk­
streams.net/vafp. The URL for the NFPF 
Guide is www.fi lmpreservation.org/. 

Connecting to Collections Bookshelf 
The Institute of Museum and Library Ser­
vices (IMLS) has distributed “Connecting 
to Collections Bookshelf” to 776 additional 
museums, libraries, and archives. The 
“Bookshelf” consists of essential books and 
online resources accompanied by a user’s 
guide that enables small cultural institutions 
to improve their care of special, art, or local 
history collections. Each set contains 11 gen­
eral publications and either 6 publications 
about caring for living biological collections 
or 5 publications about caring for nonliving 
collections, depending on the needs of the 
receiving institution. 

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

IMLS will offer the “Bookshelf” to another 
1,000 institutions next year, and applications 
will be accepted between January 5 and 
March 9, 2009. (Institutions operated by the 
U.S. government, for­profit organizations, or 
institutions that do not hold special collec­
tions are not eligible.) 

For more information, go to www.aaslh. 
org/Bookshelf/. 

IFLA conference session 
The International Federation of Library Asso­
ciations and Institutions (IFLA) has mounted 
online papers from two sessions held by the 
Core Activity on Preservation and Conserva­
tion (PAC) at the IFLA conference this past 
summer. Session 1: Digital Objects as Physical 
Carriers includes Interactive Multimedia on 
CD­ROM, Risk Carriers—The Risks Faced to 
Hand Held Media, Media Matters, and Ingest 
Strategies of Digital Libraries. 

Session 2: Preservation Infrastructures 
includes Implementing a Co­operative Long­
Term Preservation Infrastructure Solution for 
Heterogeneous Institutions, Infrastructure 
Models Used by California Digital Library’s 
Preservation Projects, A Model of Digital 
Preservation Infrastructures that Connects 
Individuals to Libraries, Library and Archives 
Canada, and From Theory to Practice. 

The URL for the papers is www.ifl a.org 
/IV/ifla74/Programme2008.htm. Go to entry 
84 (August 11, 2008, from 8:30­12:45). 

ABC for Book Collectors 
Oak Knoll Books and the British Library 
have made a PDF of John Carter’s ABC 
for Book Collectors available online. It is 
a classic dictionary of terms pertaining to 
books, bibliography, and book collecting. 
Originally published in 1952, it has been 
reissued regularly since. The PDF is a copy 
of the 8th edition that was republished with 
corrections in 2006. 

The URL for the ABC is www.ilab.org 
/images/abcforbookcollectors.pdf. 

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