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C&RL News January 2010  40

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

MIAP part-time
The Moving Image Archiving and Preserva-
tion Program (MIAP) at New York University 
will offer a part-time master’s degree track, in 
addition to its full-time track, beginning fall 
2010. MIAP is an interdisciplinary graduate 
program that trains students in the technical 
aspects of creation, curation, migration, and 
preservation of motion picture fi lm, video, 
and media. The new four-year, part-time 
track will cover the same curriculum as the 
two-year full-time track.

The application deadline for the part-
time track is February 1, 2010. For more 
information, go to www.nyu.edu/tisch
/preservation.

IPI digital prints Web site
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is 
building DP3 (digital print preservation por-
tal), a Web site devoted to the long-term care 
of digitally printed materials. It will contain 
information about identifi cation of digital 
print processes, their chemical and physical 
nature, and recommendations for storage, 
display, and handling. IPI is also providing 
a free electronic newsletter about its digital 
print projects and the results of its research.

The URL for DP3 is www.dp3project.
org/.

Copyright Watch
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is 
hosting Copyright Watch, a new Web site 
that collects and monitors copyright laws 
from all over the world. It aims to provide 
user-friendly access to copyright information, 
support comparative research, raise aware-
ness of the function of copyright law in an 
information society, and facilitate sharing 
of latest developments. It was begun by 
participants of the Access for Knowledge 

community and is supported by the EFF, 
Corporacion Innovarte, Electronic Informa-
tion for Libraries, International Federation of 
Library Associations, Professor Michael Geist, 
Third World Network, and Bangalore Centre 
for Internet and Society.

For more information about Copyright 
Watch, go to www.copyright-watch.org.

LC video
The Library of Congress (LC) has created 
a short video to explain the nature of Web 
archiving. It begins by explaining the value 
of Web content and how easily it might 
disappear. It goes on to describe how LC is 
working to preserve Web-based information 
that has long-term historical value. 

There are four primary challenges: 
determining the scope of what to collect, 
acquiring the legal right to collect it, devel-
oping the technology for managing dynamic 
content, and providing access to what it 
does collect.

The video has a three-minute and ten-
second running time and requires Adobe 
Flash 10 and a Javascript-enabled browser. 
It can be viewed at digitalpreservation.gov
/videos/webarch09/index.html.

Collection valuation
The Preservation Directorate at the Library 
of Congress (LC) has added 2008 through 
2009 data to its General Collections Valua-
tion Web page. It is helpful to have average 
book prices arranged by subject, so insur-
ance appraisals following an emergency 
can be as accurate as possible. LC used the 
data supplied in the New Title Reports from 
YBP Library Services to calculate averages 
prices for more than 900 Dewey Decimal 
classifi cation numbers and over 500 Library 
of Congress classifi cation letters.

Microsoft Excel is required to view the 
spreadsheets. For more information and to 
see the data, go to www.loc.gov/preserv
/emergprep/insurancevaluation.html. 

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