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

Hurricane Katrina 
Walter Henry (Stanford University) has de­
voted a section of his CoOL (Conservation 
OnLine) Web site to emergency information 
and resources useful to library and archives 
professionals involved in recovery of cultural 
materials damaged by Hurricane Katrina. 
He has provided links to both emergency 
response documents and the Katrina­related 
Web sites created by organizations such as 
ALA, American Institute for Conservation of 
Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), Society 
of American Archivists (SAA), American 
Association of Museums (AAM), Heritage 
Emergency National Task Force, Regional 
Alliance for Preservation (RAP), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and 
National Institute for Occupational Safety 
and Health (NIOSH). In addition, AIC has 
created the National Collections Emergency 
News on CoOL to provide a clearinghouse 
for recovery news and authoritative infor­
mation, particularly about health and safety 
issues. 

CoOL can be found at palimpsest. 
stanford.edu/. The AIC’s National Col­
lections Emergency News can be found 
a t  p a l i m p s e s t . s t a n f o r d . e d u / b y f o r m  
/mailing­lists/ncen/. 

RLG checklist for TDR 
The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has re­
leased a draft report, “An Audit Checklist for 
the Certification of Trusted Digital Reposito­
ries,” for public comment. This report is the 
result of a joint RLG and National Archives 
and Records Administration (NARA) project 
to identify the requirements for a repository 
to reliably store, migrate, and provide access 
to digital collections. It contains a defi ni­
tion of the checklist’s intended audience, 
a description of the audit and certifi cation 

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

process and criteria, the audit instrument, a 
glossary, and references. 

Robin Dale, project manager, welcomes 
comments about the draft before mid­Janu­
ary 2006. In a second project, the checklist 
will be used to audit the Koninklijke Biblio­
theek (KB, National Library of the Nether­
lands), which holds the digital archives for a 
number of organizations, including Elsevier 
Science Direct Journals, the Inter­University 
Consortium for Political and Social Research 
(ICPSR), and Portico, in its e­Depot. 

A free PDF document of the report and 
an e­mail link for comments are avail­
able at www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ 
ID=20769. More information about the 
RLG­NARA Digital Repository Certifica­
tion Task Force is available at www.rlg. 
org/en/page.php?Page_ID=367. More 
information about the KB e­Depot is 
available at www.kb.nl/dnp/e­depot/dm 
/dm­en.html. 

National Digital Newspaper Project 
The Library of Congress has mounted a new 
website for the National Digital Newspaper 
Program (NDNP). It collocates general 
information, such as a program overview, 
timeline, grant application form, list of grant 
recipients, and press releases, with techni­
cal information, such as selection criteria, 
digital conversion resources, technical speci­
fications, architecture development, NDNP 
workflow, and a style guide. 

The NDNP is a joint project of the Library 
of Congress and the National Endowment for 
the Humanities to create an Internet­based 
searchable database of U.S. newspapers, 
with descriptive information and digitization 
of selected historic pages. 

Over a 20­year period, this project is 
designed to digitize historically signifi cant 
newspapers published between 1836 and 
1922 in all the states and U.S. territories. 

The Web site can be found at www.loc. 
gov/ndnp/index.html. 

November 2005  739 C&RL News 

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