ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


April 1 9 9 5 /2 7 5

Preservation 
New s

Ja ne Hedberg

M otylewski to head 
PCS
Karen Motylewski, director o f 
field services at the Northeast 
D o c u m e n t C o n s e r v a t i o n  
Center (NEDCC) in Andover, 
Massachusetts, has b e e n  ap­
pointed director o f Preserva­
tion and Conservation Stud­
ies (P C S) at th e G radu ate 
School o f Library and Infor­
mation Science at the Univer­
sity o f Texas at Austin. PCS, 
formerly located at Columbia 
University, is an im portant 
national training program for preservation pro­
fessionals, with 80 graduates to date.

RLG publishes proceedings of digital 
symposium
The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has pub­
lished “Digital Imaging T ech nolog y for Preser­
vation,” the proceedings o f a symposium held 
at Cornell University in March 1994. More than 
90 preservation and inform ation professionals 
from RLG libraries attended the two-day sym­
posium to consider both  the potential and real­
ity o f “digital preservation.” In addition to pre­
sentations by speakers, the symposium included 
an “Imaging E xposition” by vendors o f digital 
imaging systems/applications and participants 
in library digital imaging projects.

C op ies o f  the 1 39-p ag e, p ap erb o u n d  sym ­
posium  p ro c e e d in g s  are av ailab le from  RLG 
for $ 2 0 .0 0  e a ch , plus $ 8 .0 0  sh ip p in g and h an ­
dling. O rd ers m ay b e  sen t to th e D istrib u ­
tion S erv ices Center, T h e Research Libraries 
Group, Inc., 1200 Villa Street, Mountain View, 
CA 9 4 0 4 1 -1 1 0 0 ; fax: (4 1 5 ) 96 4 -0 9 4 3 ; e-mail: 
bl.dsc@rlg.stanford.edu.

CCAHA receives NEH gran t for 
w o rksh o p s an d  su rveys
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic 
Artifacts (CCAHA) in Philadelphia has received 
a three-year, $210,117 grant from the National 
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to sup­
port tw o new  w orkshops and to subsidize a 
conservation survey program. O n e w orkshop 
will cover environm ental m onitoring and the 
other will cover handling oversized architec­
tural records. Each will b e  offered six times 
during the th ree years in various lo catio n s

throughout the Mid-Atlantic 
region. T he overview c o n ­
servation surveys are d e ­
signed for nonprofit institu­
tio n s  w h ic h  h a v e p a p er- 
based  collection s o f lon g­
term value to the study and 
u n derstand ing o f  th e h u ­
manities.

T h e cen ter is currently 
solicitin g  a p p licatio n s for 
the limited num ber o f con ­
servation surveys. T he sur­
vey con sists o f  a one-d ay 
site visit b y a m em ber o f the 

CCAHA staff and a report featuring observa­
tions and recom m endations. Cost to the institu­
tion is $300, plus travel exp en ses for the sur­
veyor. Applications will b e  reviewed as they 
are received and institutions will b e selected 
throughout the year.

F o r m o re  in fo rm a tio n , c o n ta c t V irg ilia 
Rawnsley, D irector o f  Preservation Services, 
CCAHA, 264 South 23rd Street, Philadelphia, 
PA 19103; phon e: (2 1 5 ) 545-0613; fax: (21 5 ) 
735-9313.

U C-Berkeley investigates digital 
encoding of finding aids
T he B erkeley Finding Aid P roject at the Library 
o f the University o f California, B erkeley, has 
b e e n  investigating the b est m ethods for digital 
encoding o f the finding aids used  by special 
collections, archives, and pictorial collections. 
Project staff have begun creation o f a 1,000 find­
ing aid database using a Standard Generalized 
Markup Language D ocum ent Type Definition 
(SGML D T D ) p ro to ty p e standard. A p p roxi­
m ately 20 other institutions are participating 
with B erkeley in this project. For m ore infor­
m ation, con tact Daniel V. Pitti, librarian for ad­
v a n c ed  te ch n o lo g ie s  p ro jects, U niversity o f 
C alifornia, B e r k e le y ; e-m ail: d pitti@ library. 
berkeley.edu.

J a n e  H edberg prepares this column f o r  the College 
Libraries Committee, Commission on Preservation 
a n d  Access. Submissions m ay b e m ad e to: J a n e  
Hedberg, Wellesley College Library, 106 Central St., 
Wellesley, MA 02181-8275; (617) 283-2103; 

JHEDBERG@WELLESLEY.EDU. Submission deadlin e 
is the 15th o f  the month a n d  precedes publication  by 
approximately six weeks.

mailto:bl.dsc@rlg.stanford.edu
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