ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ M arch 2002 / 215 P r e s e r v a t i o n N e w s Jane Hedberg Photographs workshops The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) and the Intermuseum Con­ servation Association (ICA) will offer From Negative to Positive‚ a series of three daylong workshops about the preservation of photo­ graphic materials. The workshops will be held April 15-17, 2002, at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. The first workshop will be “Identification and Care of Photographic Prints,” taught by Debbie Hess Norris of the University of Delaware; the second will be “Identification and Care of Photographic Negatives,” taught by Andrew Robb, photograph conservator; and the third will be “Planning Your Digital Imaging Project,” taught by Steve Puglia of Photo Con­ servation and Imaging and Albert Albano and Timothy Vitale of ICA. Registration for the first two workshops is limited to 30 participants. The registration deadline is April 1, 2002. The fee for one workshop is $60, two workshops $120, and all three workshops $170. Reduced fees are available for CCAHA and ICA members. For more information, contact CCAHA, 264 South 23rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103; phone: (215) 545-0613; fax: (215) 735-9313; e-mail: ccaha@ccaha.org; Web: http://www.ccaha. org. Mass deacidification at LC The Library of Congress has awarded a third contract to Preservation Technologies L.P. (PTLP) of Cranberry, Pennsylvania, for mass deacidification services using its Bookkeeper process. The contract runs through FY2005, and calls for treatment of 1 million books and at least 5 million manuscript sheets. This rep­ resents a significant increase over previous contracts, up from 100,000 to more than 250,000 books annually by FY2005. LC staff members will provide training and oversight for PTLP staff members who do the select­ ing, processing, shipping, and reshelving of books that receive treatment. PTLP has developed a new horizontal treat­ ment cylinder for use on manuscripts and other unbound materials. They will install this new equipment, along with a spray booth, at the Library of Congress building on Capitol Hill so these items will not have to be shipped to Pennsylvania for treatment. For ad d itional in fo rm atio n , co n ta ct Kenneth Harris, preservation projects direc­ tor, Library of Congress Preservation Direc­ torate, Washington, D.C. 20540-4500; phone: (202) 707-1054; e-mail: khar@loc.gov. HUL digitizing guide The Office for Information Systems (OIS) at the Harvard University Libraiy (HUL) has de­ veloped a Guide to Image Digitization for Harvard organizations interested in using HUL systems and services for digitizing and deliv­ ering images. Although the systems and ser­ vices described are institution specific, this guide illuminates the issues any institution should consider when creating digital objects of enduring value. It covers the components of an image digitization project, including technical infrastructure, metadata creation, image reformatting, depositing agent, and copyright. It also covers how to start, includ­ ing selecting an online catalog, selecting cata­ loging support and storage systems, consid­ erin g im ag e re fo rm a ttin g n e e d s , and determining funding options. The guide is available free of charge at http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/guide_ images.html. A rc h ite c t u r e B o s to n For anyone interested in renovating older li­ brary or archives buildings, the theme for the Spring 2002 (March) issue of ArchitectureBoston is preservation. This journal is published by the Bαston Society of Architects to instill greater interest in the relationship between quality of life and the creation of built environments. This particular issue is devoted to the chal­ lenges of architectural design in a historic context. (continued on page 221) Jane Hedberg is preservation program officerat Harvard University Library, e-mail: jane_hedberg@harvard.edu;fax: (617) 4 9 6 -8 3 4 4 mailto:ccaha@ccaha.org http://www.ccaha mailto:khar@loc.gov http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/guide_ C&RL News ■ M arch 2002 / 221 G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n s knn-Christe Young The U n ive rs ity o f A rizo n a Library has received $123,672 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a two-year digital project that will create the Arizona Elec­ tronic Atlas. This Web-based interactive state atlas will be accessible to all levels of users. The project will develop a model workflow and methodology that other organizations can use to develop their own Web-based atlases and other products using Geographic Infor­ mation Systems (GIS) technologies. The University o f Michigan has been awarded a grant for $860,000 from the An­ drew W. Mellon Foundation to support post­ doctoral fellowships focusing on the use of the university’s research collections. With the grant, and $140,000 in matching funds from the Office of the University’s Provost, a pub­ lic goods program that will offer both junior and senior postdoctoral fellowships will be instituted for a four-year term. The fellow­ ships, which are intended for scholars in the fields of the humanities and related social sciences, are expected to attract scholars to the university whose work would be derived from the collections housed on campus. Fur­ ther information about the application pro­ cess may be found at http://www.umich.edu/ -provost/publicgoods/. Cornell University Library (CUL) has received an $830,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to digitize the remain­ ing records in its card catalog and add them to its online catalog. In the 1970s, CUL be­ gan converting records from card to machine- readable format, and, since 1983, all records for newly acquired materials have been added to the library’s online catalog. How­ ever, more than 276,000 bibliographic records for items in Cornell’s collections, including a large number of humanities and social sci­ ence titles, exist only on paper cards filed in Ed. n o te : Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: ayoung@ala.org. traditional, heavy wooden cabinets. This means that these titles also have no elec­ tronic bibliographic record in national or in­ ternational databases. CUL will convert all of its card catalog records for titles classified according to the Library of Congress classifi­ cation system. The project will be completed early in 2005. A c q u i s i t i o n s Emory University has acquired the papers of composer and choral director William Levi Dawson. Described as the “Dean of African American Choral Composers,” Dawson is world renowned for his arrangements of Negro spirituals and for his composition of the Negro Folk Symphony, premiered in 1934 by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. The collection includes the scores and sheet music of other African American composers, with correspondence from John W. Work, William Grant Still, George Washington Carver, Leontyne Price, and Fanny and Ralph Ellison. It also includes hundreds of recordings from African American church, high school, college, and university choirs and a wide array of classical, jazz, blues, and popular music on 78- and 33-rpm phonodisc, as well as reel-to- reel, cassette, and 8-track tape. Dawson’s library included books of music theory and history (most notably a first edition of the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison) and hundreds of scores of classical music. The papers are expected to be open for research early in 2003. ■ ( “Preservation News” continued from page 215) Free copies of this issue are available from ArchitectureBoston, 52 Broad St., Boston, MA 02109-4301; phone: (617) 951- 1433; fax: (617) 951-0845; Web: http:// www.architects.org. ■ http://www.umich.edu/ mailto:ayoung@ala.org http://www.architects.org