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

Printing process samples 
The Image Permanence Institute is develop­
ing a new Web site called the Digital Sample 
Book. It contains images of more than 20 
printing processes. These images facilitate 
examination of process characteristics (im­
age structure, paper fibers, paper base/image 
tone, texture, sheen, image relief, support 
structure/thickness, fl uorescence). 

They also permit side­by­side comparison 
of two processes or different views of the 
same process. At present, it covers prepho­
tographic (engraving, etching, lithography, 
woodcut), photomechanical (collotype, gra­
vure, letterpress, offset lithography), photo­
graphic (carbon, chromogenic color, instant 
photography, iron­based photography, non­
chromogenic color, printing­out, silver gelatin 
prints), and digital processes (chromogenic 
digital exp., electrophotography, inkjet, offset 
lithography, other). 

The URL is www.digitalsamplebook. 
com/. 

Connecting to collections 
The Institute of Museum and Library Ser­
vices (IMLS) will cooperate with Heritage 
Preservation to produce Connecting to Col­
lections: The National Tour. It is designed to 
raise awareness among leaders of small and 
midsized cultural organizations about the 
importance of collections care. The tour will 
consist of four national meetings that will also 
be accessible through Webcasts and DVDs. 
The first meeting will be held in Atlanta on 
January 31–February 1, 2008, and focus on 
diverse ethnic and cultural collections. The 
second will be held in Denver in June 2008 
and will focus on collaboration in a digital 
age. The third will be held in San Diego in 
January 2009 and focus on care of living col­
lections. The fourth will be held in Buffalo, 

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

New York, in June 2009 and focus on training 
in collections care. This tour is part of IMLS’s 
multiyear initiative, Connecting to Collections: 
A Call to Action. 

For more information, contact Jeannine 
Mjoseth at IMLS, phone: (202) 653­4632; e­mail: 
jmjoseth@imls.gov; URL: www.imls.gov. 

Harcourt Bindery DVDs 
Sam Ellenport, owner of The Harcourt Bind­
ery of Boston has produced two DVDs to 
document the 19th­century processes and tra­
ditions used in his hand bookbindery. “Book­
binding at the Harcourt Bindery, 2006,” shows 
how a cloth and leather book was bound, 
and “Nineteenth Century Bookbinding Tech­
niques at the Harcourt Bindery,” shows small 
production runs of leather bindings. 

The DVDs cost $15 each, plus $3 for 
shipping and handling, and may be ordered 
from Sam Ellenport, 205 School St., Belmont, 
MA 02478; e­mail: sam@chagfordinc.com. 
Individuals must prepay, but institutions can 
be invoiced. 

DROID wins award 
The Digital Registry Object Identifi cation 
(DROID), a software tool developed by The 
National Archives (London, England), has 
won the 2007 Digital Preservation Award. 
This award is one of the annual UK Con­
servation Awards sponsored by Sir Paul 
McCartney. 

DROID was designed to identify un­
known digital file formats by examining in­
ternal signatures and file extensions. Once a 
file has been labeled, the PRONOM Technical 
Registry, a database containing information 
about file format lifecycles and obsolescence, 
can be used to identify the most likely way to 
preserve the file in a readable format. 

For more information about DROID and 
PRONOM, go to droid.sourceforge.net/wiki 
/index.php/Introduction. For more informa­
tion about the Conservation Awards, go to 
www.conservationawards.org.uk/. 

December 2007  753 C&RL News 

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www.digitalsamplebook