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

Earthquake recovery information
The Library of Congress provides resource 
pages on its Web site about emergency pre-
paredness, response, and recovery for cul-
tural heritage materials. The resources cover 
a variety of topics, including recovery from 
fire, flood, hurricane, mudslide, tornado, 
and earthquake. Although intended to sup-
port institutions in the United States, the re-
sources may be of interest to international 
cultural organizations.

For general information about emergen-
cies, go to www.loc.gov/preserv/emergprep 
/prepare.html, and for information about 
earthquake recovery, go to www.loc.gov 
/preserv/emergprep/earthquake.html.

Preservation Week
ALA’s first Preservation Week, “Pass It On: 
Saving Heritage and Memories,” will be 
held May 9–15, 2010. All libraries and cul-
tural heritage institutions are encouraged 
to celebrate collecting and preserving our 
heritage. To facilitate promotion and plan-
ning, ALA has mounted a toolkit that con-
tains program ideas, an online speakers’ 
bureau, examples of marketing materials, 
and funding suggestions. It contains links 
to resources in English, Spanish, French, 
Chinese, Italian, and Arabic. Preservation 
Week is also supported by the Library of 
Congress and the Institute of Museum and 
Library Services.

The toolkit is available free-of-charge 
at www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts 
/confevents/preswk/kit.cfm.

IIPC registry
The International Internet Preservation 
Consortium (IIPC) has launched a registry 
of Web archives. Its purpose is to offer a 
single point of discovery for Web content 

that is preserved by an organization com-
mitted to long-term access. Each entry in 
the registry lists the collecting institution, 
start date, interface language or languages, 
access methods, harvesting methods, and 
a description of the contents. The registry 
began with 21 entries, but it is expected to 
hold more over time.

IIPC was founded in 2003 by the national 
libraries of Australia, Canada, Denmark, 
Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, and 
Sweden, the British Library (UK), the Library 
of Congress, and the Internet Archive. Since 
2006, membership has grown to 37 institu-
tions. The consortium has four primary goals: 
to enable collection and preservation of a rich 
body of Web content, to foster development 
and use of common techniques and stan-
dards, to advocate for initiatives and legisla-
tion that support Web preservation, and to 
encourage cultural institutions to collect and 
preserve Web content.

For more information, go to netpreserve.
org or contact Abbie Grotke, IIPC Communi-
cations Officer, Library of Congress; phone: 
(202) 707-2833, e-mail: abgr@loc.gov, URL: 
www.loc.gov/webarchiving/.

UT-Austin PC CAS program ends
The University of Texas-Austin School of In-
formation announced on January 13, 2010, 
that it would terminate its Masters-level Cer-
tificates of Advanced Study for conservation 
and preservation administration. Students 
currently enrolled will be able to finish their 
studies, but future students must enroll in 
the School of Information’s general MSIS 
program and create a custom specialization 
in preservation.

For more information, consult the UT 
Austin Web site at www.ischool.utexas.edu 
/programs/specializations/ or contact Mary 
Lynn Rice-Lively, Associate Dean, School of 
Information, 1616 Guadalupe, Suite 5.202, 
Austin, TX 78701-1213, phone: (512) 471-2371, 
e-mail: marylynn@ischool.utexas.edu. 

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

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