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

NARA conference 
The National Archives and Records Adminis­
tration (NARA) will hold its 21st annual con­
ference, “Managing the Intangible: Creating, 
Storing and Retrieving Digital Surrogates of 
Historical Materials,” April 30–May 1, 2007, in 
Adelphi, Maryland. It will cover the basic goals 
of reformatting, conversion processes for static 
and dynamic media types, tools and work­
flows to increase efficiency, managed storage, 
retrieval of digital surrogates, infrastructure 
costs, and implications of digitization for pres­
ervation programs and cultural organizations. 
The 2007 conference will last two days and 
be convened at a hotel, unlike the previous 
one­day conferences held at a NARA facility. 
It is hoped that the new format will encourage 
discussion and interaction among speakers, 
attendees, and NARA staff members. 

The registration fee is $275. For more 
information, contact Richard Schneider, 
Conference Coordinator (NWT), National 
Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, 
Room B­815, College Park, MD 20740­6001; 
phone: (301) 837­3617; e­mail: richard. 
schneider@nara.gov; URL: www.archives. 
gov/preservation/conferences/2007/. 

Florence fl ood video 
The University of Utah has mounted The 
Restoration of Books, Florence 1968 as a free 
streaming video. This rare 39­minute fi lm was 
shot in 1968 by Roger Hill for the Royal Col­
lege of Art in London to aid U.S. fundraising 
for the Florence flood salvage operations. 
It shows library collections devastated by 
the November 1966 flood and several of 
the restoration techniques employed by the 
conservators who went to the rescue. In par­
ticular, it shows Peter Waters covering a book 
in leather and Christopher Clarkson making 
a limp vellum binding. 

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

The URL for the streaming video is data. 
scl.utah.edu/fmi/xsl/stream/details.xsl?­
recid=354&a::v=21y4272i9i. Streaming video 
requires a recent model computer (less than 
three years old) and a DSL or faster connec­
tion. If you encounter problems in viewing, 
please contact Randy Silverman, Preserva­
tion Librarian, Marriott Library, University of 
Utah; phone: (801) 585­6782; e­mail: randy. 
silverman@utah.edu. 

E-journal archiving 
The Council on Library and Information 
Resources (CLIR) has published E-Journal 
Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of 
the Landscape by Anne R. Kenney, Richard 
Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, 
and Ellie L. Buckley. 

The authors reviewed the archiving activi­
ties of 12 e­journal programs (Canada Insti­
tute for Scientific and Technical Information, 
LOCKSS Alliance, CLOCKSS, Koninklijke 
Bibliotheek e­Depot, Kooperativer Aufbau 
eines Langzeitarchivs Digitaler Informa­
tionen, Los Alamos National Laboratory 
Research Library, National Library of Aus­
tralia PANDORA, OCLC Electronic Collec­
tions Online, OhioLINK Electronic Journal 
Center, Ontario Scholars Portal, Portico, and 
PubMed Central). 

They concluded that current license agree­
ments do not protect long­term access to e­
journals, that libraries are not able to address 
the preservation of e­journals unilaterally, that 
much of the scholarly e­literature isn’t cov­
ered by archiving agreements, and that cur­
rently there is no obvious means of preserv­
ing most e­literature. The report concludes 
with specific recommendations for academic 
libraries, publishers, and e­journal archiving 
programs to address this situation. 

The report is available free­of­charge 
at www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub138abst. 
html. Paper copies are also available for $30 
each at the same URL. ISBN 1­932326­26­X 
or 978­1­932326­26­0. 

C&RL News January 2007  42 

www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub138abst
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