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C&RL News April 2011  238

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

Preservation Week
“Pass it on” will be the theme of the second 
annual ALA/ALCTS Preservation Week to be 
held April 24–30. Libraries of all types are 
encouraged to celebrate protection of our 
cultural heritage with events and promotions. 
Sixty-eight libraries participated in 2010, and 
it is hoped that number will increase in 2011. 
The Preservation Week Web site has toolkits 
to help plan and promote events, preserva-
tion resources, and information about events 
at other institutions. ALCTS is also selling 
posters and bookmarks that list tips for pre-
serving personal treasures.

For more information, go to www.ala.
org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/preswk 
/index.cfm.

Webinar series
The “Connecting to Collections Webinar Se-
ries” was originally targeted at the more than 
3,000 small libraries, museums, and archives 
that received a set of printed preservation re-
sources called the “Connecting to Collections 
Bookshelf.” Six of those Webinar sessions were 
recorded in late 2010 and are now available 
online. They are: “Telling the Story of Your 
Collections to the Press” presented by Anne 
Edgar of Anne Edgar Associates of NY; “Using 
Social Media to Tell your Collections’ Stories” 
by Nancie Ravenel of the Shelburne Museum; 
“Getting the Most from your Bookshelf: Care 
of Art and Objects” by Kristen Laise of Heritage 
Preservation; “Funding for Collections Care” by 
Debra Hess Norris of the University of Dela-
ware and Lee Price of the Conservation Center 
for Art and Historic Artifacts; “Public Outreach 
and Collections Care” by Amber Kerr-Allison 
of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 
Susan Blakney of West Lake Conservation, and 

Beth Tice of Baylor University; and “Getting 
the Most from your Bookshelf: Care of Paper, 
Photographs, and Audiovisual Collections” by 
Kristen Laise. The recordings are accompanied 
by session handouts and discussions. This proj-
ect is supported by the Institute of Museum and 
Library Services in partnership with Heritage 
Preservation.

The Webinar recordings and related 
materials are available free-of-charge at  
learningtimesevents.org/c2c/.

Microbial research
Cultural Heritage Microbiology, edited by 
Ralph Mitchell of the Harvard School of 
Engineering and Applied Sciences and Chris-
topher McNamara of the Harvard School of 
Public Health, covers both dangers of micro-
biological deterioration to cultural heritage 
objects and uses of microbial processes dur-
ing their conservation. Introductory essays 
synthesize past research and current findings, 
and it includes reprints of almost two dozen 
seminal scientific papers published during 
the last two decades. 

The book is divided into six sections, 
each covering a different type of cultural 
material. Of special interest for librarians and 
archivists is the second section, “Paper and 
Manuscripts.” It has a 15-page essay by Fran-
cesca Cappitelli and Claudia Sorlini, followed 
by reprints of “Aerobiological Research and 
Problems in Libraries” by Fausta Gallo, “The 
Role of the Conidia of Fungi in Fox Spots” 
by Mary-Lou Florian, and “Application of Mo-
lecular Techniques for Identification of Fungal 
Communities Colonising Paper Material” 
by Astrid Michaelsen, Flavia Pinzari, Katrin 
Ripka, Werner Lubitz, and Guadalupe Piñar.

The book is available for $169.95 from 
the American Society of Microbiology eS-
tore at estore.asm.org/viewItemDetails.
asp?ItemID=911 or through a bookseller. 
ISBN=978-1-55581-476-2. 

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