ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ January 2004 /  37

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

A ir  m o n ito rin g  g u id e
The American Institute for Conservation of 
Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) has included 
a special insert in the November 2003 (v. 28: 
no. 6) issue of AIC News. “Air Monitoring 
Guide” is a seven-page health and safety leaflet 
by Dennis Ertel that covers the purpose of air 
sampling, w hat agents and characteristics to 
sample, w hen to sample, w ho should do the 
sam pling, types o f sam pling instrum ents, 
sample collection and analysis, and interpret­
ing results. There is also a glossary, a brief 
bibliography, and a list o f sources for air 
monitoring equipment. Ertel works in the oc­
cupational medicine industry and is a m em­
ber of the AIC Health and Safety Committee.

For more information, contact AIC, 1717 K 
Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20006; 
phone: (202) 452-9545; fax: (202) 452-9328; e- 
mail: info@aic-faic.org; URL: aic.stanford.edu.

Ed u catio n  sym p o siu m
The Simmons Graduate School of Library and 
Information Science in Boston is planning a 
symposium on April 12, 2004, to consider pres­
ervation education programs at library schools 
in North America. Speakers and participants 
will review the current state of preservation 
education, as determined by a survey con­
ducted by JeanAnn Croft and Karen Gracy of 
the University of Pittsburgh, and determine 
new  approaches and collaborative initiatives.

Attendance and lunch are free-of-charge, 
thanks to support from the H.W. Wilson Foun­
dation, but preregistration is mandatory. For 
more information, contact Erin Dini, Simmons 
GSLIS, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115- 
5898; phone: (617) 521-2800; fax: (617) 521- 
3192; e-mail: erin.dini@ simmons.edu; URL: 
www.simmons.edu/gslis/index.html. A project 
d escrip tio n  o f th e  survey is available at 
www.sis.pitt.edu?~kgracy/Pres_Edu_Study.htm.

Stored alive
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) at the 
Rochester Institute of Technology has devel­
oped “Stored Alive,” an interactive Web site 
that demonstrates the effect of tem perature 
and humidity on various types of objects. It

begins with five potential storage areas: an 
attic, parlor, basem ent, bam , and m useum  
gallery. Mouseovers provide descriptions of 
the environments found in those spaces and 
charts showing a year’s worth of temperature 
and humidity data. Selecting an area produces 
a group of objects that may be stored: an oil 
painting, color photograph, porcelain vase, 
book, antique clothes iron, and w ooden table. 
Selecting an object for storage produces a 
description of the physical condition of the 
object after 50 years in the space. This site 
was designed for use as a teaching tool to 
explain how  chemical, biological, and physi­
cal decay can be exacerbated or delayed by 
the storage environment. It was supported by 
funds from the National Endowment for the 
Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Li­
brary Services, and the Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation.

The URL is ww w .clim atenotebook.com / 
games/storedalive.html. It can be used on the 
Web, dow nloaded from the W eb to a local 
hard drive, or uploaded from a 3-5-inch, PC- 
formatted floppy disc. Discs are available for 
$1.00 each (minimum order of 10) plus $3.00 
shipping and handling from IPI, Rochester 
Institute of Technology, 70 Lomb Memorial 
Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604; phone: (585) 
475-5199; fax: (5 8 5 ) 475-7230; e-m ail: 
ipiwww@rit.edu; URL: www.rit.edu/ipi.

F ictio n  a b o u t co n se rv a tio n
R ebecca A nne R ushfield a n d  Patricia S. 
Griffin have compiled “Conservation Fiction: 
Or Fiction that Acknowledges the Existence 
o f C o n se rv atio n  a n d  C o n se rv a to rs” a n d  
mounted it on the CoOL (Conservation Online) 
W eb site. The list includes printed works, nov­
els, short stories, fiction about forgery, films, 
plays, and television programs and commercials.

T h e URL is p a lim p s e s t.s ta n fo r d .e d u / 
byauth/rushfiled/conservation-fiction. Addi­
tions, updates, or corrections may be sent to 
Rebecca A. Rushfield at wittert@juno.com. ■

Jane H edberg is preservation p ro g ra m  o ffic e r a t Harvard 
University Library, e-mail: jane_hedberg@ harvard.edu; fax: 
(61 7 )4 9 6-8 3 4 4

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