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OM S reprints collection 
conservation m anual
The Office o f Management 
Studies (OMS) o f the Asso­
ciation o f Research Libraries 
(ARL) has issued a second 
printing o f its 1993 publica­
tion, Collection Conservation 
Treatment: A Resource Man­
ual f o r  Program Develop­
ment and Conservation 
Technician Training. The 
452-page manual contains in­
structions for more than 100 

Preservation
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J a n e  Hedberg

con servation  treatments, 
floorplans, and furnishing/equipment lists for 
conservation laboratories; flow charts and de­
cision trees for conservation decision-making; 
plus a bibliography. It was developed by the 
42 collections conservators and preservation ad­
ministrators who attended the 1992 “Training 
the Trainers: A Conference on Training in Col­
lection Conservation,” and compiled by Maralyn 
Jones, assistant head o f the Conservation De­
partment at the University o f California, Berke­
ley. The manual also includes a final report on 
the conference which was intended to facili­
tate regional planning for collection conserva­
tion training. Copies are available for $40.00, 
plus $5.00 shipping and handling (prepaid only) 
from ARL Publications, Department #0692, 
Washington, DC 20073-0692. For more infor­
mation contact: Annette C. Verna (202) 296- 
8656.

NEDCC republishes preservation  
m anual
The Northeast Document Conservation Center 
(NEDCC) has published the second edition o f 
its Preservation o f Library and Archival Mate­
rials: A Manual, edited by Sherelyn Ogden. The 
manual is intended to provide basic, practical 
information on a variety o f collection care top­
ics and to assist in developing sound preserva­
tion programs. The 35 leaflets in the original

Jane Hedberg prepares this column fo r the College 
Libraries Committee, Commission on Preservation 
and Access. Submissions fo r this column may be 
made to: Jane Hedberg, Wellesley College Library, 
106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02181-8275; (617) 
283-2103; JHEDBERG@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU. 
Submission deadline is the 15th o f the month and 
precedes publication by approximately six weeks.

manual were reviewed and 
updated and 11 new leaf­
lets were added. The new 
leaflets include “Importance 
o f C ollections P o licies,” 
“Light Protection for Library 
and Archival M aterials,” 
“Storage Solutions for Over­
size Paper Artifacts,” and 
“The Implications o f Digi­
tal Imaging for Preserva­
tion.” Copies o f the entire 
manual (46 leaflets, plus 
binder) are available for 
$40.00 from NEDCC, 100 

Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810-1494. 
Sets o f 20 leaflets (the 11 new leaflets, plus the 
9 most substantially revised original leaflets) 
are available for $8.50. Prices include shipping 
and handling and orders must be prepaid. For 
more information contact: Pat McCarthy at (508) 
470-1010.

PRLC creates H ypatia
The Pittsburgh Regional Library Center (PRLC) 
has announced the creation o f Hypatia, a new 
collection o f full-text preservation databases 
which currently includes a top-level directory, 
a database o f disaster plans, the AMIA-L list­
serv archives o f the Association o f Moving Im­
ages Archivists, a directory o f regional resources 
for preservation and disaster recovery, and a 
link to the CoOL Webserver at Stanford Uni­
versity. Hypatia will be maintained by the pres­
ervation services manager at PRLC and new 
databases will be added as obtained. WAIS 
access is available through prlc.org port 210, 
using the search term hypatia in the hypatia­
directory-of-servers. SWAIS access is available, 
for users without a WAIS client, through telnet 
prlc.org or dial-in 412-825-5580, login: hypatia, 
password: hypatia (VT100 terminal emulation 
setting required). ■

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