ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


30/C & R LN ew s

H a v e rfo rd  receives
NEH g ra n t
Haverford College in Penn­
sylvania has received a grant 
of over $64,000 from the Di­
vision of Preservation and 
Access of the National En­
dowment for the Humanities 
to fund preservation micro­
filming of and improved ac­
cess to 103 title s  in the 
college’s international Quak­
er periodicals collection.

NEH awarded $18.7 mil­
lion for 54 projects in June 
1992. In addition to preservation microfilming, 
NEH supported projects to stabilize material 
culture collections, to increase access to col­
lections, and to provide preservation training. 
Of the many types of educational and cultural 
institutions that received grants during this cycle, 
Haverford was the only college.

SOLINET a n d  CPA cosponsor sem inar
SOLINET and the Commission on Preservation 
and Access will hold their second Preservation 
Management Seminar from July 22-30, 1993, at 
Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. This in­
tensive seminar is designed to provide academic 
librarians with practical, effective strategies for 
preservation of general collections. Participants 
can expect to set preservation priorities and to 
develop an action plan tailored to their own 
institution’s needs by the end of the seminar.

Registration is limited to 20 participants who 
will be selected from the applicant pool by the 
members of the commission’s College Librar­
ies Committee. Tuition, room, and board for 
the eight-day program is $1,500 (transportation 
not included). The commission will offer one 
scholarship plus as much as $500 toward trans­
portation costs. For more information or an 
ap p licatio n  form co n tact Amy B ernath at 
SOLINET, (800) 999-8558; e-mail: abernath® 
mail.solinet.net.

ARL sends m em o  on deacidification
Scott Bennett of Johns Hopkins University, 
David Bishop of Northwestern University, Ri­
chard De Gennaro of Harvard University, and 
Duane Webster of the Association of Research 
Libraries (ARL) sent a memo on October 23, 
1992, to all ARL directors with an interest in

Pivsewation
N ew s

Jane H edb erg

acting on mass deacidifica­
tion in FY93. In the memo 
th ey  u rg ed  th a t an y o n e 
p la n n in g  to  u se A kzo 
C h em icals’ DEZ process 
b e g in  d is c u s s io n s  w ith  
Akzo as soon as possible. 
According to Richard Miller 
of Akzo, the Dutch corpo­
ration is reviewing the fi­
nancial viability of its mass 
d e a c id ific a tio n  p la n t in 
Texas and may discontinue 
operations at the end of 
1993. For details contact: Ri­

chard Miller, Akzo Chemicals, Inc., 385 Surrey 
Lane, Fairfield, CT 06430; (203) 259-6800.

A M IG O S  distributes re p o rt on SAA 
A n n u al M e e tin g
AMIGOS Preservation Service is distributing a 
report on preservation-related sessions at the 
Society of American Archivists Annual Meet­
ing, held in September in Montreal. The report 
covers eight sessions, five of which focus on 
preservation of electronic, audio, video, or film 
materials. Free copies of the report are avail­
able from Tom Clareson, AMIGOS Bibliographic 
Council, Inc., 12200 Park Central Dr., Suite 500, 
Dallas, TX, 75251; (800) 843-8482.

G a y lo rd  publishes n e w  series
Gaylord Bros, has begun publication of Preser­
vation Pathfinders, a series of basic bibliogra­
phies on preservation topics. The first number 
in the series is titled An Introduction to Preser­
vation and contains 31 annotated citations on 
environmental control, disaster preparedness 
and response, preservation of photographs, 
collections conservation of paper and books, 
commercial library binding, and preservation 
in public libraries.

Free copies of the leaflet are available from 
Gaylord Bros., Box 4901, Syracuse, NY 13221- 
4901; (800) 448-6160. ■

Jane Hedberg prepares this colum n f o r  the College 
Libraries Committee, Commission on Preservation 
a n d  Access. Submissions m ay be m ade via: Internet: 
JHEDBERG@LUCY. WELLESLEY.EDU;f a x  (617) 283- 
3640; or m ail to: J ane Hedberg, Wellesley College 
Library, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02181-8275.

mail.solinet.net