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

LC Webcasts
The Preservation Directorate of the Li-
brary of Congress has mounted Webcasts 
of three Future Directions Symposia from 
its series “Preservation Roadmaps for the 
21st Century.” 

The first symposium, “25 Years of Preser-
vation Research/The Journey: Understand-
ing the Physical Environment,” was held 
October 20, 2010. It presented a review of 
environmental research done by the Image 
Permanence Institute and runs 210 minutes. 

The second symposium, “Assessing Op-
tions for Large Collections,” was held March 
15, 2011. It presented best-practices for pre-
serving large-scale legacy collections and runs 
139 minutes for part one and 142 minutes 
for part two. 

The third symposium, “Transitioning to a 
Digital Future,” was held October 20, 2011. 
It presented a variety of perspectives on 
preserving the core collections of the federal 
government and runs 237 minutes. Each 
Webcast consists of video with captions and 
is accompanied by a transcript.

The Webcasts are available free-of-charge 
at www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/results.
php?mode=s&cat=57.

Protecting high-density storage
The research center of FM Global, a mutual 
company that provides commercial and 
industrial property insurance, conducted 
extensive testing of fire suppression meth-
ods in library high-density storage facilities. 
The results of these tests are published in 
Technical Report: Fire Protection and Loss 
Mitgation of High Density Library and Ar-
chival Storage by Kristin L.T. Jamison. The 
126-page report describes the background 
and objective of the research, experimental 
techniques used, three large-scale fire tests 

conducted in their burn facility, the effec-
tiveness of various sprinkler arrays, and 
FM Global’s conclusions. It also includes 
five recommendations for improving high-
density storage fire protection.

The report is available free-of-charge from 
Dave Fuller at FM Global, David.Fuller@
FMGlobal.com.

Managing storage environments
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) will 
offer a second series of “Sustainable Pres-
ervation Practices for Managing Storage 
Environments” workshops and Webinars 
in 2012. 

The series is designed to assist collections 
care librarians and facilities managers in 
achieving optimal preservation environments 
that use the least possible amount of energy 
and are sustainable over time. Series II will 
consist of four two-day regional workshops 
and nine Webinars. The first workshop will 
be at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado 
on August 15–16, the second at the Folger 
Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. on 
September 12–13, the third at the Vizcaya Art 
Museum and Gardens in Miami, on October 
16–17, and the fourth at the Newberry Library 
in Chicago on November 14–15. 

Each workshop participant will receive a 
Sustainable Preservation Practices workbook 
that includes information from the sessions, 
HVAC system documentation instructions, 
suggestions for obtaining grant funding, refer-
ences, and Web links. Each of the Webinars 
will be focused on a specific topic, such as 
dealing with summer heat and humidity or 
winter dryness and will be available on the 
IPI Sustainability Web site following the 
broadcast.

The workshops and Webinars are all of-
fered free-of-charge thanks to support from 
the National Endowment for the Humani-
ties. For more information or to register for 
a workshop, go to www.ipisustainability.
org. 

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