April 2010  215 C&RL News

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

Digital preservation workshop
BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research), 
LYRASIS, and OCLC are jointly presenting 
“Digital Preservation for Digital Collabora-
tives.” The multiday workshop is designed 
to aid participants in collaborative or con-
sortial digital projects to develop workable 
long-term preservation plans. Registrants 
will participate in several Webinars before 
attending two days of in-person instruction. 
The in-person workshops will be offered 
three times in 2010, first in Philadelphia on 
April 28–29, second in San Jose on August 
3–4, and third in Chicago on November 
16–17. There will also be post-workshop 
support to ensure that participants com-
plete their plans. The faculty includes Liz 
Bishoff (BCR), Pricilla Caplan (Florida Cen-
ter for Library Automation), Tom Clareson 
and Robin Dale (LYRASIS), and Katherine 
Skinner (MetaArchive Cooperative).

Registration costs $150, with discounts 
offered for multiple attendees from the 
same collaborative. For more information or 
to register, go to www.bcr.org/dps/training 
/neh-dpdc.html.

Film poster
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) has 
developed a large (47" by 35") education-
al poster, Knowing and Protecting Motion 
Picture Film. In addition to general infor-
mation about motion picture film formats, 
soundtracks, and preservation, it includes a 
history of film materials, a timeline of film 
technology, tips for examining and identify-
ing film materials, microscopic views of 12 
materials, and a glossary of technical terms.

The poster costs $50 and may be pur-
chased from IPI’s online store at www.
imagepermanenceinstitute.org/shopping 
/shopexd.asp?id=35.

CCI notes
The Canadian Conservation Institute’s CCI 
notes will no longer be distributed in print, 
but will be accessible online in both Eng-
lish and French. The long-running series 
of pamphlets covers preservation, collec-
tions care, emergency preparedness, and 
conservation of a variety of cultural ma-
terials, including books, paper, and pho-
tographs.

CCI notes is available free of charge at 
www.cci-icc.gc.ca/crc/notes/index-eng.
aspx in either HTML or PDF formats.

PCAN
Holly Robertson and Beth Doyle have 
launched PCAN, a blog also known as 
Preservation and Conservation Adminis-
tration News. They envision it as an on-
line meeting place where practitioners can 
find news, conference reports, editorials, 
essays, white papers, book reviews, vid-
eos, and discussions. They also provide 
links to preservation organizations, other 
blogs, and social media sites.

The URL for PCAN is prescan.wordpress.
com/.

Foundation grants
The Library of Congress and the Founda-
tion Center have collaborated to publish 
the 2010 edition of Foundation Grants for 
Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and 
Museums. 

It lists 2,270 grants of $5,000 or more 
that were awarded by 505 foundations 
between 2005 and the date of publication. 
It also contains a list of foundations that 
make awards for preservation, a state-by-
state description of funded projects, and a 
statistical analysis of the awards by founda-
tion, subject, recipient location, recipient 
type, and grant size.

The 2010 edition is available as a free 
PDF at www.loc.gov/preserv/foundtn-
grants.html. 

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

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