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

IPI newsletters 
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is offer­
ing two free online newsletters. “Climate Notes: 
Managing the Storage Environment for Preser­
vation” is a quarterly that began publication 
in June 2008. It covers current environmental 
management practice, preventive conservation 
projects, and the latest news from IPI. Articles 
from the most recent issue include, “Energy 
Savings and Collection Management” and 
“Funding for Environmental Improvements.” 
“Archival Advisor Newsletter” is a monthly that 
began publication in June 2007. It is a general 
preservation education tool intended for family 
photo collectors, genealogists, and scrapbook 
makers. Articles from the most recent issue 
include “Preserving Photographs in a Digital 
World” and “The Traveling Photographer: Get­
ting the Photos Home.” 

To see back issues or subscribe to “Climate 
Notes,” go to www.imagepermanenceinstitute. 
org/shtml_sub/newsletter_archive.asp and for 
“Archival Advisor Newsletter,” go to www. 
archivaladvisor.org. 

Green symposium proceedings 
The Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the 
Cultural Record at the University of Texas­
Austin has mounted online the proceedings of 
“From Gray Areas to Green Areas: Developing 
Sustainable Practices in Preservation Environ­
ments.” On November 1 and 2, 2007, the two­
day symposium explored how cultural heritage 
organizations could implement sustainable 
environmental practices. Presentations included 
“What will the cultural record say about us? The 
stewardship of culture and the mandate for 
environmental sustainability” by Michael Henry, 
“Going green in museums: A conservator’s view” 
by Paul Himmelstein and Barbara Appelbaum, 
“From Japanese tradition: Is /Kura/ a model 
for a sustainable preservation environment?” 

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

by Kazuko Hioki, “Sustainability means less is 
more” by Joachim Huber, “Providing safe and 
practical environments for cultural property in 
historic buildings…and beyond” by Richard 
Kerschner, “Sustainable practices for conser­
vation environments” by William Lull, “Real 
and relevant green building” by Peter Pfeiffer, 
“Specifying storage environments in libraries and 
archives” by James Reilly, “Pennsylvania’s Rare 
Collections Library; Design overview” by Cor­
nelius Rusnov, and “From Institutional mission 
to sustainable outcome: Cultivating stewardship 
through the planning and design process” by 
Laurie Zapalac. 

The proceedings are available at www.ischool. 
utexas.edu/kilgarlin/gaga/proceedings.html. 

BL collection care videos 
The British Library mounted nine short videos 
on its Web site that demonstrate how to properly 
handle different types of materials. Designed 
primarily to educate library users, the videos 
cover “Caring for the collections: Introduction,” 
“Using books,” “Using gloves with collection 
items,” “Using books in boxes and using other 
types of books,” “Using folded items,” “Using 
rolled items,” “Using archive material,” “Using 
prints, drawings and photographs,” and “Using 
other formats.” 

The videos are available at www.bl.uk 
/aboutus/stratpolprog/ccare/collectioncarevid­
eos/index.html. 

NARA annual conference 
The U.S. National Archives and Records Admin­
istration (NARA) annual preservation conference 
is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, 
March 26, 2009, at the National Archives Building 
in Washington, D.C. The title of the conference 
is “The challenges of preserving and providing 
access to digitized historic records.” 

For more information, go to www. 
archives.gov/preservation/conferences/2009/ or 
contact Richard Schneider, preservation confer­
ence coordinator at (301) 837­3617 or richard. 
schneider@nara.gov. 

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February 2009  125 C&RL News 

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