ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


448 / C &RL News

P R E S E R V A T I O N
N E W S

P rep a red  by B arbara B row n

College Libraries Committee 
Commission on Preservation and Access

• W ash ington, D .C . Bibliography on Mass 
Deacidification, a 32-page report by Carole Zim- 
mermann, is now available from the Library o f 
Congress Preservation Office. According to Zim- 
mermann, the purpose o f  the report is to reach all 
audiences interested in the preservation o f  book 
and paper materials through mass deacidifìcation. 
The bibliography is available at no charge from the 
Preservation Office, Library o f  Congress, Madison 
Building, LM -G21, Washington, D C  20540.

• W a ld o rf, M aryland. The Association o f 
Physical Plant Administrators o f  Universities and 
Colleges (APPA) has published the proceedings o f 
its highly successful seminar on environmental 
conditions for housing library and archival materi­
als that was held in Washington earlier this year. 
The seminar was sponsored jointly by APPA and 
the Commission on Preservation and Access. Pres­
ervation o f  Library and Archival Materials in­
cludes the keynote address by Billy Fiye, chairman 
o f  the Commission, “Toward a Collaborative Na­
tional Preservation Program.” The compilation is 
available for $28.00 to APPA member institutions 
and for $35.00 to non-members (includes postage 
and shipping). Send check with order to APPA 
Publications, P.O. Box 753, Waldorf, M D  20604.

• L ex ington, Virginia. Facuity members and 
participants have been selected for the week-long 
Preservation Management Seminar (developed by 
SOLINET and the College Libraries Committee 
o f the Commission on Preservation and Access) 
which will be held on the Washington & Lee Uni­
versity campus, July 20-27, 1991. Faculty mem­
bers are: Charlotte B. Brown, Franklin and 
Marshall College; Carol E. Eyler, Mercer Univer­
sity; Lisa L. Fox, SOLINET; and Carolyn Morrow, 
Harvard University. Participants are: Anne Ar­
mour, University o f  the South; Krista Armstrong, 
Shenandoah University; Ruth Ash, Berry College;

Art Bagley Jr., University o f  Tampa; R obin 
Brabham, Univ. o f  North Carolina at Charlotte; 
Margaret Clerldn, Middlebury College; Catherine 
L. Crohan, Siena College; Gail Garfìnkle, College 
o f  Charleston; Robert Garzillo, R hode Island 
School o f  Design; Jane Hedberg, Wellesley C ol­
lege; Vickie Kline, York College o f  Pennsylvania; 
Annette Morris, Georgetown University Law Cen­
ter; Victoria T. Stanton, Univ. o f  North Florida; 
B ebecca Stuhr-Rommereim, Grinnell College; 
Michael Sutherland, Occidental College; and Yo­
landa Warren, Washington & Lee University. ■  ■

Beware o f copier toner scams
Libraries are reporting experiences with 

fraudulent ph otocopier toner salespersons. 
Their aim is to sell toner at inflated prices, 
usually by contacting a library employee over 
the telephone and convincing the employee to 
accept a shipment o f  toner. The toner and a bill 
is then shipped to the library. A com m on tech­
nique is for a salesperson to pose as a library’s 
regular supplier, calling to inform library staff o f  
a price increase, suggesting that the library 
order a large supply now— over the phone—  
before prices go up. UC Berkeley reports that 
someone offered to send information concern­
ing “toxic materials” in the library’s copier, 
asked for the model number o f  the library’s 
copier, and asked if the library had adequate 
supplies o f  toner. The University o f  Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign reports that returning the 
goods, along with a letter stating that any further 
shipments not requested with authorized uni­
versity purchase orders would be considered 
free gifts, has stopped repeat occurrences.