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

Online emergency resources 
Heritage Preservation’s Heritage Emergency 
National Task Force has redesigned its Web 
pages to improve access to emergency 
resources. Links are organized to be used 
either pre­ or post­disaster, and many of the 
resources are free. 

Resources for Emergency Planning and 
Preparedness are subdivided into eight cate­
gories: Know Your Risks, Plan for Collections 
Emergencies, Prepare an Historic Property for 
Emergencies, Learn What Funding is Avail­
able and How to Get It, Train Your Staff and 
Volunteers, Get to Know Your Emergency 
Responders, Make a Case for Emergency 
Preparedness, and Protect Family Treasures 
from Disaster. Resources for Response and 
Recovery are subdivided into nine categories: 
Respond to and Emergency, Get Professional 
Help, Assess Damage, Get Funding to Aid 
Your Recovery, Share Information with Your 
Community and Local Media, Protect Your 
Health, Salvage Your Collections, Salvage 
an Historic Property, and Salvage Family 
Treasures from Disaster. The Web site also 
includes information about recent major 
disasters and Task Force activities. 

The URL is www.heritagepreservation. 
org/programs/TASKFER.HTM. 

ARL preservation report 
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) 
has released Safeguarding Collections at the 
Dawn of the 21st Century: Describing Roles 
and Measuring Contemporary Preservation 
Activities in ARL Libraries by Lars Meyer. 
It provides an overview of a number of 
preservation functions currently performed 
in research libraries and suggests how they 
should be characterized and measured. 
Meyer considers reshaping those functions 
by examining the creation of digital surro­

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 

gates, the collection of Web­based content 
and machine­dependent media, and the 
conduct of traditional core activities. 

He also looks at the networked digital 
environment and possibilities for interinsti­
tutional collaboration in digitization, Web 
archiving, shared collection storage, and 
deacidifi cation. 

The report is available free of charge 
at www.arl.org/bm~doc/safeguarding 
­collections.pdf. 

CCI technical bulletin 
The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) 
has published technical bulletin no. 29, 
Combatting Pests of Cultural Property by 
Tom Strang and Rika Kigawa. The 44­page 
leaflet reviews common types of pests that 
attack collections, presents a survey method 
to identify and gauge the severity of an infes­
tation, and suggests Integrated Pest Manage­
ment (IPM) remediation activities for coping 
with an infestation. 

Technical bulletin 29 costs $20 (CAD) in 
Canada and $25 (CAD) in the United States 
and other countries. It is available from the 
CCI online bookstore at https://www.cci­icc. 
gc.ca/bookstore/viewCategory­e.cfm?id=18. 
ISBN: 798­0­660­19899­6. 

DLF merges into CLIR 
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) became 
a program of the Council on Library and In­
formation Resources (CLIR) on July 1, 2009. 
DLF was founded in 1995 as a CLIR project 
and only became an independent organiza­
tion in 2005. 

The return to its former home was 
prompted by a desire to broaden its agenda, 
expand its contact with diverse groups of 
stakeholders, and take advantage of op­
erational savings during difficult economic 
times. Initially, current DLF members will 
become charter sponsors of the new DLF. 
This will be separate from CLIR sponsorship 
and some organizations may hold both. 

July/August 2009  417 C&RL News 

https://www.cci-icc
www.arl.org/bm~doc/safeguarding
mailto:hedberg@harvard.edu
www.heritagepreservation