ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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

FEDLINK RFP
The Federal Library and Information Network 
(FEDLINK) has mounted an online request for 
proposal (RFP) for preservation services. This RFP 
is intended to help the staff members of federal 
government libraries and information centers iden­
tify and select appropriate vendors for preserva­
tion services that will be outsourced. It is divided 
into six sections, called lots, which specify the 
requirements for Conservation of Rare Books and 
Other Bound Rare library and Archival Materials 
(including protective enclosures), Conservation of 
Flat Paper and Other Unbound Rare Library and 
Archival Materials (including protective enclo­
sures), Preservation Photocopying/Scanning of 
Books, Preservation Microfilming, Preservation 
Duplication of Photographs and Negatives, and 
Preservation Consultation and Training. Although 
developed in conformance with federal procure­
ment procedures, these detailed specifications 
could be of use to any organization involved in 
outsourcing.

The URL is wwwl.eps.gov/spg/LOC/CS/ 
FEDLINKCS/postdate_l.html. Scroll dow n to 
the entry for December 31, 2003, and select So­
licitation 01.

Binding w orkshops
The Greater Western Library Alliance, Heckman 
Bindery, Archival Products, the Association of 
Library Collections and Technical Services, and 
the University of Kansas Continuing Education 
are sponsoring a one-day workshop about library 
binding in two locations. The first workshop will 
be held on April 29, 2004, in Kansas City, Mis­
souri, and the other will be held on May 13,2004, 
in Salt Lake City, Utah. Topics to be covered in­
clude processing materials, working productively 
with a library bindery, and the role of binding in a 
preservation program. Brian Baird of the Univer­
sity of Kansas, Lora Lennertz of the University 
of Arkansas, and Hilary Seo of Iowa State Uni­
versity are the instructors.

For more information, contact the University 
of Kansas Continuing Education, Registrations, 
1515 St. Andrews Drive, Lawrence, KS 66047- 
1625; phone: (877) 404-5823 (toll free); fax: (785) 
864-4871; e-mail: kuce@ku.edu; URL: www. 
kuce.org/programs/lbw/index.html.

CCAHA w orkshops
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic 
Artifacts (CCAHA) will again offer its three- 
part workshop series, “Disaster Mitigation for 
Cultural Collections,” April 19-21, 2004, in 
San Francisco. It will be cosponsored by the 
California Preservation Program. The first day 
Julie Page of University of California-San the

go and Michael Smith of LaSalle University 
will cover “Assessing Vulnerability and Identi­
fying Risks.” The second day Jack Watts of the 
Fire Safety Institute and Nicholas Artim of 
the Fire Safety Network will cover “Fire 
Safety, Detection and Suppression.” The third 
day, Monona Rossol of Arts, Crafts, and The­
atre Safety, Inc. and Wilbur Faulk of Contem­
porary Services Corporation will cover “Un­
derstanding Health, Safety and Security Risks.”

Workshops cost $90 for one, $170 for two, 
or $240 for all three, and the registration dead­
line is April 5, 2004. For m ore information, 
contact Preservation Services, CCAHA, 264 
South 23rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103; 
phone: (215) 545-0613; fax: (215) 735-9313; 
e-mail: ccaha@ccaha.org; URL: w w w .ccaha. 
org.

School for Scanning
The Northeast Document Conservation Cen­
ter (NEDCC) will once again hold “School for 
Scanning: Building Good Digital Collections” 
in Chicago, June 2-4, 2004. This three-day con­
ference provides the latest information about, 
and best practices for, converting paper-based 
collections into digital assets. Its primary authe

nce is administrators and project managers, 
not technicians.

Registration is $385 and the deadline is May 7, 
2004. For more information, contact Ginny 
Hughes, NEDCC, 100 Brickstone Square, 
Andover, MA 01810; phone: (978) 470-1010; fax: 
(978) 475-6021; e-mail: ghughes@nedcc.org; 
URL: www.nedcc.org.

Jane Hedberg is preservation program officer at Harvard 
University Library, e-mail:jane_hedberg@harvard.edu; fax: 
(617)496-8344

mailto:kuce@ku.edu
mailto:ccaha@ccaha.org
http://www.ccaha
mailto:ghughes@nedcc.org
http://www.nedcc.org
mailto:jane_hedberg@harvard.edu


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