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December 2012 711 C&RL News

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

PDT&C
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 
(PDT&C) is the new title for Microform 
& Digitization Review: Preservation and 
Access Issues for Cultural Heritage Institu-
tions. The revised journal will focus on 
preserving digital content by considering a 
variety of technological, social, economic, 
political, and user issues. It is published 
by De Gruyter Saur and will appear quar-
terly. Michele Cloonan, Simmons Graduate 
School of Library and Information and 
Library Science, is the editor-in-chief; and 
the Editorial Board is comprised of inter-
national experts. The first issue (vol. 42: 
no.1) has articles about quality control for 
large-scale digitization projects, historical 
research in digital archives collections, 
preserving the “creator” in new media, 
documenting the Occupy Movement, and 
mapping the preservation landscape for 
the 21st century.

A subscription costs $149. For more 
information, go to www.degruyter.com 
/view/j/pdtc.

IPI guide
IPI (Image Permanence Institute) has 
made “Guide to Sustainable Preservation 
Practices for Managing Storage Environ-
ments” available for sale. The 112-page 
workbook is designed to help institutions 
maintain the best climate for preservation 
of collections with the least consumption 
of energy. Chapters are titled: “The Basic 
Elements of the Environment and Their 
Effect on Material Decay,” “The Factors 
that Shape the Storage Environment,” 
“Document the Current Storage Environ-
ment,” “Document Each Storage Facility’s 

Mechanical System,” “Understand the Role 
of Dew Point,” “Analyze Collected Data,” 
“Create an Environmental Management 
Team,” “Specific Activities of the Environ-
mental Management Team,” “Investigate 
Opportunities for Energy Savings,” “An-
notated Bibliography,” “Influence of Local 
Climate on HVAC System Exercise with 
Regional Examples,” and “HVAC System 
Documentation Worksheets.”

The guide costs $25, plus shipping and 
handling. Participants in IPI’s Sustainable 
Preservation Practices-Series II workshops will 
receive copies of the workbook for free. For 
more information, go to https://www.image-
permanenceinstitute.org/store/publications 
/ s u s t a i n a b l e - p r e s e r v a t i o n - p r a c t i c e s 
-guidebook.

Farewell
This is my final column. I am retiring from 
the Harvard Library. Now seems like the 
perfect time for a change to this column. 
When I agreed to take over Barbara Brown’s 
preservation column in C&RL News, I cer-
tainly had no expectation that I would keep 
doing it for more than 20 years. As I got into 
the rhythm of writing each month, I grew 
to really enjoy the process and appreciate 
working with the fabulous people at ACRL. 

I owe an unpayable debt of gratitude to 
Mary Ellen Davis, ACRL executive director; 
David Free, editor-in-chief of C&RL News; 
and Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor. 
They have been supportive, cooperative, and 
cheerful when the pressures of publishing a 
journal could have made them otherwise. I 
also owe my husband, Hilding Hedberg, re-
tired director of the Grafton (Massachusetts) 
Public Library, my thanks and love for cri-
tiquing every single one of my 228 columns.

My hope is that this column has helped a 
little to inform and influence the protection 
of our valuable heritage. Farewell in preserv-
ing our past for the future. 

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