ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries November 1991 / 649 PRESERVATION NEWS P r e p a r e d b y B a r b a r a B r o w n College Libraries Committee Commission on Preservation and Access • Amherst, Massachusetts. The Amherst College Archives has received two federal Morrow Papers. The National Endowment for the Humani ties Division of Preservation and Access and the U.S. D epartm ent of Education Higher Education Act, Title II-C Program have joined forces in pro viding $105,000 to support this 18-month project. Anne Ostendarp has been named project archivist; preservation officer Daria D ’Arienzo will be project director. Diplomat, financier, and lawyer Dwight W. Morrow (1873-1931) corresponded with busi ness, political, and international leaders such as Reuben Clark, Calvin Coolidge, T. Coleman duPont, and Sir Arthur Salter. The 120 linear feet collection was donated by Mrs. Morrow in 1954. For addi tional information on the project contact: Anne Ostendarp, College Archives, Robert Frost Library, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002; (413) 542- 2299. • Albany, N ew York. The first environmen tal control publication developed specifically for libraries, archives, and other organizations is called Conservation Environment Guidelines f o r Librar ies and Archives‚ and has been published by New York State Library’s Conservation/Preservation Pro gram. The 88-page resource packet discusses the conservation environment, collections environment assessment and monitoring, and compromises for conservation environment goals. It also addresses building environments and systems that can create a good conservation environment. The packet is available for $10.00 from: Tiffany H. Allen, The New York State Library, 10-C-47 Cultural Educa tion Center, Albany, NY 12230. Checks should be made payable to: The University of the State of New York. • W ashington, D.C. A new eight-panel pho tographic exhibit that draws attention to the preser vation and access of information in brittle books is available for short-term loan to universities and colleges, libraries, archives, scholarly societies, and other organizations from the Commission on Pres ervation and Access. The 10-by-7-foot modular display is built around a large full-color photograph of a brittle book with crumbling paper. The display includes velcro end panels for mounting informa tion and photographs specific to an institution’s own preservation program. Panels can be rearranged to serve as a complete backdrop for a conference booth or for a tabletop display. The exhibit is lightweight, portable, and easy to assemble. Institu tions can borrow the display free of charge but must pay shipping charges. For more information con tact: Trish Cece, Commission on Preservation and Access at (202) 483-7474. • Chicago, Illinois. A new Preservation Train ing Program being launched by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) intends to create a criti cal mass of institutional preservation programs managed by competent archival administrators, and to do so as rapidly and efficiently as possible. The program was recently awarded a $645,554 grant by the National Endowment for the Humani ties. SAA plans to train 60 archivists over a three- year period, examining preservation topics from a management point of view. More information is available from SAA, 600 S. Federal, Suite 504, Chicago, IL 60605. ■ ■ 650 / C&RL News R ecruitm ent and m entoring program s for African- Americans developed in California T he C alifornia L ibrarians Black C aucus of G reater Los Angeles (CLBC) and the Graduate School of Libraiy and Inform ation Science (GSLIS) at the University o f California Los Angeles (UCLA) have joined forces to develop a recruitm ent and m entoring program for African-Americans. “W e in the library community are concerned about the shortage of African-American librarians and we are developing aggressive programs to reach out to talented African- American students and bring them into the pro fe s s io n ,” e x p la in e d Beverly Lynch, dean of UCLA’s GSLIS. T h e C L B C /U C L A M entor Program ’s goals are threefold: 1) to in crease awareness of ca reer options in the field of library and informa tion science, 2) to en courage African-Ameri- cans to attain the MLS Brainstorming at UCLA degree at the GSLIS; and Univ., Northridge; Jo 3) to utilize practicing in Public Library; Eri formation professionals facilitator; and Sand in recruiting, retaining, Public and m entoring prospec tive and enrolled African-American students. The program is supported in p a rt by a $27,000 Library Services Construction Act grant award from the California State Library. During the past year a series o f workshops were h e ld to im p le m e n t t h e M e n to r P ro g r a m ’s goals.There w ere two workshops involving pro spective mentors; the first introduced the program and the GSLIS to CLBC m em bers and the second involved the actual training of m entors. A m entoring handbook, p re p are d by Eric Brasley, the project’s consultant from KPMG Peat Marwick Manage m ent Consultants, was used and may serve as a model to o ther organizations interested in develop ing similar m entoring programs. C ontact the stu dent services assistant at UCLA at (213) 825-5269 for m ore information about the handbook. Two other meetings targeting library leaders and o ther professionals w ere held to generate support for the program and aggressive recruitm ent activi ties. Library directors of public and academic li braries in Southern California m et at UCLA to discuss stra te g ies for re c ru itin g p e o p le from un d e rre p re se n te d groups, particularly African- Americans, into the information fìeld.The 25 li brary managers who a ttended spent an afternoon brainstorm ing ways to improve the general image of the profession and to identify viable strategies for recruiting stellar individuals into the profession. In a second meeting, career counseling directors from m ajor universities in the Southern California area were invited to UCLA. This information session review ed c a re e r op tions in library and in formation science as it is shaped in the ‘90s, and explored ways in which they could forge p a r tn e r s h ip s w ith GSLIS and CLBC to achieve the program ’s goals. The GSLIS is fol lowing up on initial contacts m ade at both meetings with visits to their campuses and li : Clark Wong, Cal State brary systems during yce Sumbi, L A County 1991-92. c Brasley, discussion T o c o m p le te th e ra Reuben, L A County program implementa- Library. tionphase, a reception was held for prospec tive proteges to inform them of program benefits and to give them to opportunity to m eet GSLIS staff and CLBC members. E ric Brasley stressed that he wants African- Americans to be aware that the field of librarianship is m uch broader than traditionally thought. “The multicultural aspect o f today’s librarianship should make the field a great deal m ore attractive to African-Americans than it has been in the past,” Brasley said. "Ethnic communities are going to be relying m ore and m ore on libraries and databanks for information, and they are going to n eed skilled librarians who understand th eir concerns to assist them in accessing that information. T he goal o f the M entoring Program is to make sure those librarians are th ere for them .” CLBC and GSLIS share responsibility for ad ministering, promoting, and monitoring the pro gram. The program ’s success will b e m easured by how effective it is in increasing the num ber of African-Americans who com plete the graduate li brary program in the near future. To date, the program has 13 m entor/protege pairs. 1 1 649.pdf 650=.pdf