ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ September 2003 / 557

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

CD and DVD guide
The Council on Library and Information Resources
(CLIR) and the National Institute o f Standards
and Technology (NIST) have produced C are an d
H andling G uide fo r  the P reservation o f  CDs
a n d  DVDs: A G uide fo r  L ibrarian s a n d  Ar
chivistsby Fred R. Byers. This 52-page guide con­
tains chapters about ensuring that disc content
remains available, disc structure, how long one
can store discs and still use them again, conditions
that affect discs, and cleaning, as well as a glossary.
There is also a one-page quick reference of do’s
and do not’s that summarize the guide’s major
recommendations.

NIST Special Publication 500-252 and the
one-page reference are available free-of-charge
in PDF at http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/
carefordisc/. Comments may be sent by e-mail to
Fred Byers at byers@nist.gov.

Lam ination guide
The Anthropology Conservation Laboratory at the
Smithsonian Institution has mounted Guidelines
f o r  the C are o f  W orks on P ap er with C ellulose
A cetate Lam ination on its Web site. This online
document describes what lamination is and why it
may be a problem, plus how to identify laminated
papers, determine their condition, and decide on a
course o f action. It also contains a list o f re­
sources and a glossary.

The guidelines are available free-of-charge at
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/conseivation/
lamination/. For more information, contact Greta
Hansen, Department o f Anthropology, NHNH-
MRC 112, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box
73012, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012; e-mail:
hansen.greta@nmnh.si.edu.

Report a b ou t shared repositories
CLIR published D eveloping Print R epositories:
M odelsf o r  S hared Preservation a n d  A ccess by
Bernard F. Reilly Jr. and Barbara DesRosiers in
June 2003. This report examines existing shared
regional and national repositories and considers
the possibilities these facilities offer for shared
collection development and management. In ad­
dition, it examines repositories that specialize in
rare or little-used materials in specific collecting
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The report is available free-of-charge in HTML 
and PDF or for $20 in print at http://www. 
clir.org/pubs/abstract/publl7abst.html.

First photograph symposium
The Harry Ransom Center and the Getty Conser­
vation Institute are cosponsoring “At First Light: 
Niépce and the Dawn of Photography,” Novem­
ber 20– 23, 2003, at the Harry Ransom Center in 
Austin, Texas. Topics to be covered include his­
tory, photographic method and scientific investi­
gation of the first photograph, Joseph Nicéphore 
Niépce and his work, photography before 1839, 
conservation and preservation of early photo­
graphs, and research in Heliography and related 
photographic processes.

For more information about the symposium, 
consult http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/AFiy.

IS&T archiving conference
The Society for Imaging Science and Technology 
(IS&T), in conjunction with the Technical Asso­
ciation of the Graphic Arts (TAGA), will hold its 
Archiving Conference April 20–2 3 , 2004, in San 
Antonio, Texas. IS&T is an international nonprofit 
organization dedicated to disseminating informa­
tion about the latest scientific and technological 
advances in all types o f imaging. TAGA is an in­
ternational technical association serving the graphic 
arts industries. The IS&T Archiving Conference is 
intended to foster discussion about techniques for 
preserving, cataloging, indexing and retrieving 
documents and images, with a particular emphasis 
on identifying useful current technologies and ar­
eas where further research is needed. It offers a 
rare opportunity for librarians and archivists to 
discuss these issues with people in the industries 
that produce images to be preserved.

For more information about the conference, 
consult http://www.imaging.org/conferences/ 
archiving2004. For more information about the 
organizations, consult IS&T’s Web site at http:/ 
/www.imaging.org, and TAGA’s Web site at 
http://www.taga.org/. ■

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

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http://www.imaging.org/conferences/
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