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February 2010  93 C&RL News

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

NARA preservation conference
The National Archives and Records Adminis-
tration (NARA) will hold its 24th annual pres-
ervation conference, “Plan for Preservation: 
Assess, Prioritize and Manage,” on March 18, 
2010, at the National Archives in Washington 
D.C. The one-day conference will explore 
strategic planning for preservation. As of 
December 2009, the presentations include “Is 
Risk Management Hazardous to Your Collec-
tion?” by Norbert Baer of New York University; 
“Managing Preservation Today: What Do We 
Learn From Those Who Have Come Before?” 
by Doris Hamburg of NARA; “Innovation, 
Interconnections, and Evidence: Steward-
ship for a 21st Century Archive” by Nancy 
Bell of The National Archives (UK); “Using 
Risk Assessment to Determine Preservation 
Priorities: Tools and Services in Development 
at the Canadian Conservation Institute” by 
Irene Karsten of the Department of Canadian 
Heritage; “Documenting What is Needed to 
Preserve Our Records” by Allison Olson of 
NARA; “A Model for a Cross-Repository Survey 
of Photograph Collections” by Paul Messier of 
Paul Messier LLC; “A Statewide View of As-
sessment, Prioritization and Management of 
Preservation Resources” by Sherelyn Ogden 
of the Minnesota Historical Society; and “Eight 
Days A Week: Advocacy and Funding for 
Preservation Management” by Debbie Hess 
Norris of the University of Delaware.

Registration costs $150 ($75 for full-time 
students). For more information, contact 
Richard Schneider, Preservation Conference 
Coordinator, NARA, phone: (301) 837-3617; e-
mail: richard.schneider@nara.gov; URL: www.
archives.gov/preservation/conferences/2010/.

Copyright and digitization
Cornell University Library has published Copy-
right and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for 

Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and 
Museums by Peter B. Hirtle, Emily Hudson, 
and Andrew T. Kenyon. It explains U.S. 
copyright law basics, the rights of copyright 
holders, the major exemptions used by cul-
tural organizations, and the importance of 
risk assessment for digitization projects. It 
also includes two case studies about digitizing 
oral histories and student work. The 272-page 
book is an American edition of an Australian 
publication by Hudson and Kenyon.

The book is available for free download 
at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_
id=1495365 and hdl.handle.net/1813/14142 
or for purchase for $39.95 from CreateSpace 
(a subsidiary of Amazon) at https://www.
createspace.com/3405063.

Film preservation
The “Video Aids to Film Preservation” Web 
site now includes six documentaries about 
fi lm preservation made by professional pro-
ducers and laboratories. The fi lms include 
Winstar Productions’ Keeper of the Frame, 
Eastman Kodak’s Murder on the Screen, Film 
Technology Group’s Moving Images for the 
Future, Cineric’s Restoring CinemaScope 55 
The King and I, Small Gauge Blow Up, and 
Restoring Harry Smith’s Mahagonny.

The URL for the fi lms is www.folkstreams.
net/vafp/index.php.

Conservation symposium
The Royal Academy of Arts in London held a 
two-day symposium, “Conservation: Principles, 
Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths” in Sep-
tember 2009. It subsequently mounted audio 
recordings of the presentations on its Web site. 
The sessions on day 1, “Principles, Dilemmas 
and Uncomfortable Truths” and “Making Mean-
ing: Theories and philosophies of conservation 
ethics,” may be of the most interest.

The URL for the presentations is www.
royalacademy.org.uk/education/conservation-
principles-dilemmas-and-undormfortable-
truths,1104,AR.html (sic). 

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