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J a n e  H e d b e rg  i s  s e n i o r  p re s e r v a t i o n  p ro gr a m 
officer at Harvard University Library, e-mail: jane_
hedberg@harvard.edu; fax: (617) 496-8344

CoOL moved to AIC
After Stanford University Libraries an-
nounced it could no longer support Conser-
vation OnLine (CoOL), the American Insti-
tute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic 
Works (AIC) moved to assume responsibility 
for the indispensable Web-based resource. 
The preservation community is indebted to 
Walter Henry and Stanford for 22 years of 
invaluable service and to AIC for taking on 
this important work.

For more information about the transi-
tion, go to the “CoOL and DistList Updates” 
in Quick Links at www.conservation-us.org/.

Digital sustainability
Ithaka S + R, the strategy and research arm 
of Ithaka, has published Sustaining Digi-
tal Resources: An On-the-Ground View of 
Projects Today by Nancy L. Maron, K. Kirby 
Smith, and Matthew Loy. The 39-page report 
examines different fi nancial models used 
by 12 digitization projects. The projects are 
BOPCRIS Digitisation Centre at the Univer-
sity of Southampton (UK), Centre for Com-
puting in the Humanities at King’s College 
London (UK), DigiZeitschriften, Göttingen 
State and University Library (Germany), 
eBird, Information Science Department at 
Cornell University (US), Electronic Enlight-
enment at the University of Oxford (UK), 
Hindawi Publishing Corporation (Egypt), 
Inamédiapro and ina.fr, L’Institut national de 
l’audiovisuel (France), Licensed Internet As-
sociates programme at The National Archives 
(UK), Middle School Portal 2: Math and 
Science Pathways at the National Science 
Digital Library (US), Stanford Encyclopedia 
of Philosophy at Stanford University (US), 
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae at the University 
of California-Irvine (US), and V&A Images 
at the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK). 

Analysis of the 12 projects identifi ed key 
factors for sustainability, including the role 
of entrepreneurial leadership, creating value, 
minimizing direct costs, developing diverse 
revenue sources, and establishing account-
ability and metrics for success.

For a free copy of the report, go to www.
ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/strategy/ithaka-case
-studies-in-sustainability/report/SCA_Ithaka
_SustainingDigitalResources_Report.pdf.

CCAHA workshops
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic 
Artifacts (CCAHA) is offering “A Race Against 
Time: Preserving our Audiovisual Media” for 
the last time October 20–21, 2009, in Atlanta. 
This completes a three-year national tour 
for the workshop. CCAHA is also offering 
“Environmental Management: Stewardship 
and Sustainability” November 12, 2009, in 
Philadelphia.

The registration fee for “Race Against 
Time” is $200. “Environmental Management” 
is $85 for CCAHA members and $100 for non-
members. For more information and to reg-
ister online, go to www.ccaha.org/education
/program-calendar.

LC “Preservation News”
The Preservation Directorate of the Library 
of Congress (LC) has instituted an update 
service that will deliver announcements about 
preservation research, staff publications, and 
other topics of interest to the preservation 
community. 

The service is available by e-mail or RSS 
reader. To subscribe, go to “Topics: Collections 
Preservation” at www.loc.gov/rss.

World Day for AV Heritage
UNESCO has declared October 27, 2009, as 
World Day for AV Heritage to call attention 
to the importance of moving images and 
recorded sound to the cultural record of the 
20th and 21st centuries. The theme this year 
is “Fading Heritage: We Can Save It.” 

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