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C&RL News November 2009  606

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

CCAHA mounts conference videos
On October 27, 2009, UNESCO’s World Day 
for Audiovisual Heritage, the Conservation 
Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), 
premiered its new video series about preser-
vation of audiovisual media. The series began 
with recordings of the two-day conference, “A 
Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovi-
sual Media,” which was offered for the fi nal 
time in Atlanta, earlier in October. 

The conference covered audiovisual 
preservation basics, fi lm, audio and video 
preservation, and contracting for reformat-
ting. Faculty included George Blood (Safe 
Sound Archives), Alan Lewis (independent 
preservation consultant), and Sarah Stauder-
man (Smithsonian Institution Archives).

The videos are available free-of-charge 
at www.ccaha.org thanks to support from 
the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the 
Institute for Museum and Library Studies, and 
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

ARSC conference recordings
The Association for Recorded Sound Collec-
tions (ARSC) has mounted audio recordings 
of presentations delivered at its 2009 Confer-
ence held in Washington, D.C. Presentations 
of particular interest include: “The Fight for 
Copyright Reform and What It Means For 
You” by Tim Brooks; “The Outlook for Copy-
right Reform in 2009 and Beyond,” a panel 
with Jonathan Band, June Besek, Malcolm 
Grace, Gigi B. Sohn, and Corey D. Williams; 
“The State of Audio Preservation in the United 
States: A National Study and Next Steps,” a 
panel with Patrick Loughney, Gregory Lukow, 
and Eugene DeAnna; “Scaling Up: Increas-
ing Audio Preservation Effi ciency Through 
Automation and Parallel Transfers“ by Mike 
Casey; “From Ingest to Web-Site: Creating a 
Preservation Master and Automating On-line 

Access” by Rob Poretti; “Born Digital But Not 
Equal: A Survey of Digital Audio Formats, 
from Physical Media to Files” by David Nolan; 
and “Strategies for Preserving Born Digital 
Audio” by Chris Lacinak.

The recordings are available free-of-
charge in M3U and MP3 formats at www.
arsc-audio.org/conference/audio2009
/index.html.

Emergency workbook
The Federal Library and Information Center 
Committee has mounted the second edition 
of the Disaster Preparedness Workbook for 
Cultural Institutions Within the Military on 
the Library of Congress Web site. 

The new edition, by independent pres-
ervation consultant Beth Patkus, and former 
director of the U.S. Naval War College Library 
Robert Schnare, updates the original 1998 
publication and incorporates lessons learned 
from the attacks of 9/11. It is a comprehensive 
look at all aspects of emergency planning, 
preparedness, and response that should be 
useful to cultural organizations outside the 
military.

The 372-page workbook is available 
f o r  f r e e  d o w n l o a d  a t  w w w . l o c . g o v
/ f l i c c / a b o u t / F L I C C _ W G s / d i s a s t e r
/DisasterPreparednessWorkbook.pdf.

BL and the NPO
The British Library incorporated the National 
Preservation Offi ce into the British Library 
Collection Care Department and changed 
its name to the British Library Preservation 
Advisory Centre. The new department will 
share expertise with and provide preserva-
tion education opportunities to libraries and 
archives in the UK.

For more information, contact Caroline 
Peach, the new head of the Advisory Centre, 
at caroline.peach@bl.uk. 

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the subject line. 

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