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Preservation Hews

Jane Hedberg prepares this column for the College Libraries Committee, Commission on Preservation and Access. Submissions for this column may be made to: Jane Hedberg, Wellesley College Library, 106 Central St., Wellesley, MA 02181-8275; (617) 283-2103; JHEDBERG@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU. Submission deadline is the 15th of the month and precedes publication by approximately six weeks.

OMS reprints collection conservation manual

The Office of Management Studies (OMS) of the Asso- ciation of Research Libraries (ARL) has issued a second printing of its 1993 publica- tion, Collection Conservation Treatment: A Resource Man- ual for Program Develop- ment and Conservation Technician Training. The 452-page manual contains in- structions for more than 100 conservation treatments, floorplans, and furnishing/equipment lists for conservation laboratories; flow charts and de- cision trees for conservation decision-making; plus a bibliography. It was developed by the 42 collections conservators and preservation ad- ministrators who attended the 1992 “Training the Trainers: A Conference on Training in Col- lection Conservation,” and compiled by Maralyn Jones, assistant head of the Conservation De- partment at the University of California, Berke- ley. The manual also includes a final report on the conference which was intended to facili- tate regional planning for collection conserva- tion training. Copies are available for $40.00, plus $5.00 shipping and handling (prepaid only) from ARL Publications, Department #0692, Washington, DC 20073-0692. For more infor- mation contact: Annette C. Verna (202) 296- 8656.

NEDCC republishes preservation manual

The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) has published the second edition of its Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual, edited by Sherelyn Ogden. The manual is intended to provide basic, practical information on a variety of collection care topics and to assist in developing sound preservation programs. The 35 leaflets in the original manual were reviewed and updated and 11 new leaf- lets were added. The new leaflets include “Importance of Collections Policies,” “Light Protection for Library and Archival Materials,” “Storage Solutions for Over- size Paper Artifacts,” and “The Implications of Digi- tal Imaging for Preserva- tion.” Copies of the entire manual (46 leaflets, plus binder) are available for $40.00 from NEDCC, 100

Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810-1494. Sets of 20 leaflets (the 11 new leaflets, plus the 9 most substantially revised original leaflets) are available for $8.50. Prices include shipping and handling and orders must be prepaid. For more information contact: Pat McCarthy at (508) 470-1010.

PRLC creates Hypatia

The Pittsburgh Regional Library Center (PRLC) has announced the creation of Hypatia, a new collection of full-text preservation databases which currently includes a top-level directory, a database of disaster plans, the AMIA-L listserv archives of the Association of Moving Images Archivists, a directory of regional resources for preservation and disaster recovery, and a link to the CoOL Webserver at Stanford University. Hypatia will be maintained by the preservation services manager at PRLC and new databases will be added as obtained. WAIS access is available through prlc.org port 210, using the search term hypatia in the hypatiadirectory-of-servers. SWAIS access is available, for users without a WAIS client, through telnet prlc.org or dial-in 412-825-5580, login: hypatia, password: hypatia (VT100 terminal emulation setting required).