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Preservation News

Jane Hedberg

Salvage information

There have been countless responses to the tragedies of September 11, 2001, including Web pages devoted to salvaging cultural materials and records. The National Task Force on Emergency Response produced When the Dust Settles: Safely Cleaning Family Treasures, which is available at http://www.heritagepreservation. oig/PDFS/Dustpressrelease.pdf. The Environmental and Occupational Safety Health Sciences Institute created Dust in Your Home/Business: Removing It and Reducing Your Exposure, which is available at http://www.eohsi. rutgers.edu/wtc/dust.shtml. The National Fire Protection Association made five of its standards available for free download at http:// www.nfpa.org/Codes/CodesandStandards/Of- fer/Offer.asp. Among them is NFPA 471: Recommended Practicefor Responding to Hazardous Materials Incidents.

SOLINET leaflets

SOLINET has added three new free disaster preparedness leaflets to its list of online publications. Drying Techniques for Water-Damaged Books and Records is available at http://www. solinet.net/emplibfile/dtytech.pdf, Drying Wet Books and Records is available at http:// www.solinet.net/emplibfile/wetbooks.pdf, and Decision-making Tree for Disaster Recovery is available at http://www.solinet.net/emplibfile/ decisiontree.pdf.

For more information, contact SOLINET, 1438 West Peachtree Street NW, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30309-2955; phone: (800) 999-8558 (toll-free); fax: (404) 892-7879; e-mail: ariley@solinet.net; URL: http://www.solinet. net/preservation/preseivationhome.cfm.

AATA Online

The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), in association with the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC), will launch “AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature” on June 8, 2002. This database will initially contain all the entries from “Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts” and “IIC Abstracts,” published from 1955 to the present. It will be kept up-todate with quarterly additions of new abstract entries. By the end of 2002, the database will also contain the entries from 20 AATA special supplements and approximately 2,000 abstracts published by the Fogg Art Museum and the Freer Gallery of Art between 1932 and 1955. “AATA Online” will become the complete online database for this information, containing more than 100,000 abstracts for publications about preservation and conservation. The interface offered with this sendee will permit setting search preferences, saving search strategies, notice of new abstracts in preselected subject areas, downloading and printing search results, and browsing the AATA classification scheme and subject categories.

“AATA Online” will be available free-of-charge at http://www.getty.edu/conservation. For more information, contact the AATA office at GCI, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1684; phone: (310) 440-7325; fax: (310) 440- 7702; e-mail: aata@getty.edu.

BCIN online

The Conservation Information Network (CIN) announced the launch on May 8, 2002, of a new Web site for access to their bibliographic database (BCIN). BCIN cumently contains more than 190,000 bibliographic records about conservation that were contributed by the Canadian Conservation Institute Library, the Getty Conservation Institute, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, the International Council of Museums, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, the National Archives of Canada, and the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education. The BCIN will contain only the “Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts” entries published between 1955 and 1997, so to obtain access to a complete database of that title, see the item above.

BCIN will be available free-of-charge at http://www.bcin.ca. ■

Jane Hedberg is preservation program officerat Harvard University Library, e-mail: jane _ hedberg@harvard.edu; fax: (617) 496-8344