October 2010  499 C&RL News

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

Conserving photos
The Getty Conservation Institute has pub-
lished a new title, Issues in the Conservation 
of Photographs. The 752-page paperbound 
anthology chronicles the emergence and 
development of photograph conservation as 
a professional discipline. It includes 72 texts 
published from the 19th through the 21st 
centuries that are essential to understanding 
the key issues of photo conservation. Many 
of the texts (e.g., lectures, memos, and let-
ters) have never been published. The book 
was edited by Debbie Hess Norris and Jen-
nifer Jae Gutierrez of the Art Conservation 
Department at the University of Delaware.

The book costs $70 and is available 
from the Getty Bookstore at www.getty.edu 
/bookstore/titles/photocons.html. ISBN: 978-
1-60606-000-1.

Framing photos
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) has 
mounted “A Consumer Guide to Materials 
for Preservation Framing and the Display of 
Photographic Images” on its Web site. The 
brochure covers the anatomy of a frame pack-
age, causes of photo decay, best practices for 
framing, and recommendations for display. It 
joins four other guides about family photos: 
“A Consumer Guide to Traditional and Digital 
Print Stability,” “A Consumer Guide for the 
Recovery of Water-Damaged Traditional and 
Digital Prints,” “A Consumer Guide to Modern 
Photo Papers,” and “A Consumer Guide to 
Understanding Permanence Testing.”

All five guides are available free-of-charge 
at www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org 
/shtml_sub/downloads.asp.

NEDCC Webinars
The Northeast Document Conservation Cen-
ter (NEDCC) is offering Preservation 101 as 

a live online Webinar starting October 26, 
2010. It is a six-month course consisting of 11 
Webinars plus offline study and assignments. 
It will cover an introduction to preservation, 
deterioration of paper, film, electronic media, 
buildings and environments, collections care, 
analog and digital reformatting, conservation 
treatment, disaster planning, and building a 
preservation program. Donia Conn will be 
the instructor.

NEDCC is also offering individual two-
hour online Webinars. The first is “Surveying 
Your Collection” on August 25, 2010, the 
second is “Storage and Handling of Collec-
tions Materials” on September 22, the third is 
“Environmental Control and Monitoring” on 
October 21, the fourth is “Pest Management“ 
on November 17, and the fifth is “Collections 
Security” on December 15. All Webinars start 
at 2 p.m. EST.

Preservation 101 costs $600 and the 
registration deadline is October 22. The in-
dividual webinars cost $95 each. For more 
information, go to www.nedcc.org/education 
/training.calendar.php.

University of Illinois AvSAP
The University of Illinois Library has com-
pleted the Audiovisual Self-Assessment 
Program (AvSAP), a three-year, IMLS-funded 
project to develop a Web-based tool to help 
collections managers with little AV expertise 
to devise preservation plans for their collec-
tions. The AvSAP software uses information 
about format type, physical condition, and 
storage condition to determine preservation 
priorities. It can be used for either individual 
item or random sample surveys. It provides 
pop-up windows with illustrated background 
information about AV definitions and con-
cepts that can be used by the surveyor when 
wanted. Lastly, it produces a report of the 
findings to support decision-making.

Access to the AvSAP is available free-of-
charge at www.library.illinois.edu/prescons 
/avsap. 

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

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