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

The British Library conference papers 
The British Library has mounted online papers 
from “Second Life for Collections,” the 2007 
National Preservation Office conference. The 
conference covered reformatting issues and 
considered the future of both microfi lm and 
digitization. Speakers presented reports (“The 
metamorphosis of Metamorfoze,” “The British 
Library/JISC British Newspaper Projects,” “Proj­
ect Motorway: Implementation of Large­Scale 
Scanning Projects,” “Google at Oxford”) and 
case studies (“Beyond Microfi lm: Digitizing 
Very Large Plans,” The Challenge of Operating 
a Local Authority Archive Reprographic Service 
on a Commercial Basis,” “Microform and Digital 
Publishing”). 

The papers are available as a free PDF at 
www.bl.uk/npo/pdf/conf2007.pdf. 

PARS preservation awards 
Barclay W. Ogden, head of the Preservation 
Department at the University of California­ 
Berkeley Library, is the 2009 recipient of the Paul 
Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award 
(sponsored by Preservation Technologies, L.P.). 
Ann Russell, former director of the Northeast 
Document Conservation Center, is the 2009 
recipient of the LBI George Cunha and Susan 
Swartzburg Preservation Award (sponsored by 
the Library Binding Institute). Both awards are 
presented by the Preservation and Reformatting 
Section (PARS) of ALA’s Association for Library 
Collections and Technical Services. 

For more information about Banks/Harris 
award, go to www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs 
/alcts/awards/profrecognition/banksharris. 
cfm, and for the Cunha/Swartzburg award, go 
to www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/awards 
/profrecognition/lbicunhaswartz.cfm. 

CCAHA AV conference 
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic 

J a n e  H e d b e rg  i s  s e n i o r  p re s e r v a t i o n  p ro gr a m  
officer at Harvard University Library, e-mail: jane_ 
hedberg@harvard.edu; fax: (617) 496-8344 

Artifacts (CCAHA) will offer “A Race Against 
Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media,” July 
29–30, 2009, in Denver, and in Atlanta, October 
20–21, 2009. This conference will provide an 
overview of identifying and preserving AV 
media, reformatting options, contracting for AV 
preservation services, surveying and selecting 
AV media for preservation, and locating fund­
ing sources through lectures, case studies, and 
panel discussions. Faculty members in Den­
ver include, Alan Lewis (formerly of NARA), 
George Blood (Safe Sound), Tom Clareson 
(Lyrasis), Anna Scott (Aspen Historical So­
ciety), and Sarah Stauderman (Smithsonian 
Institution Archives). 

Registration costs $200. For more informa­
tion, go to www.ccaha.org. 

Digital curation institute 
The “DigCCurr Professional Institute: Cura­
tion Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle” 
will be held in two sessions, one June 22–26, 
2009, and the other January 6–7, 2010, at the 
University of North Carolina (UNC)­Chapel 
Hill. The institute is designed to foster skills, 
knowledge, and community among profes­
sionals responsible for digital collections. 
During the initial five­day session, lectures, 
discussions, and labs will introduce curation 
program development, evaluation of informa­
tion producers environments, submission and 
transfer scenarios, submission agreements and 
policies, infrastructure independence, digital 
preservation, technological change, access and 
use, and existing tools. Each participant will 
formulate a six­month action plan that will be 
reviewed during the January follow­up ses­
sion. Faculty members include Carolyn Hank, 
Cal Lee, Richard Marciano, and Helen Tibbo 
(UNC­Chapel Hill), Nancy McGovern (Uni­
versity of Michigan), Seamus Ross (University 
of Toronto), and Manfred Thaler (University 
of Cologne). 

Registration costs $650. For more infor­
mation, go to ils.unc.edu/digccurr/institute. 
html. 

308C&RL News May 2009

http:www.ccaha.org
mailto:hedberg@harvard.edu
www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/awards
www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs
www.bl.uk/npo/pdf/conf2007.pdf