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PRESERVATION NEWS

Prepared by Barbara Brown College Libraries Committee Commission on Preservation and Access

• Atlanta, Georgia. The date and place for the week-long Preservation Management Institute developed by the College Libraries Committee in cooperation with the staff of the SOLINET Preservation Program are not fixed yet, but it will occur during July 1991. Mark your calendars now and obtain application information from SOLINET— Preservation Program, SOLINET, Inc., 400 Colony Square, Plaza Level, 1201 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, GA.

• Princeton, New Jersey. Hedi BenAicha, preservation librarian at Princeton University, reports the successful completion of the first year of a three-year NEH-funded project to film approximately 9,000 titles in Princeton’s Arabic collection. The Arabic printed book collection, some 90,000 volumes housed in Firestone Library, dates from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, and almost³/ 4 of the collection is printed on highly acidic paper. Princeton is using the Mid-Atlantic Preservation Services (MAPS) to perform the actual microfilming. For additional information about the project contact: Hedi BenAicha, (609) 258-4957.

• Washington, D.C. A research project conducted under a Commission on Preservation and Access contract with the Research Libraries Group, Inc., has concluded that the tested scanning and automation format recognition (AFR) technology cannot be considered at this time as a viable mechanism for converting printed bibliographic records into machine-readable MARC format. Copies of the two-page project report are available from Trish Cece, Communication Assistant, Commission on Preservation and Access,

1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 313, Washington, DC 20036.

• Washington, D.C. The copyright implications of large-scale preservation and access programs are explored in a paper prepared for the Commission on Preservation and Access by Robert L. Oakley, director of the Law Library and professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. “Copyright and Preservation: A Serious Problem in Need of a Thoughtful Solution” addresses the specific concerns and issues of copyright compliance arising from the unprecedented massive reformatting of deteriorating books and journals printed on acid paper. Copies of the paper are available for $15.00. Orders must be prepaid, with checks made payable to “the Commission on Preservation and Access.” Payment must be in U. S. funds.

• Washington, D.C, The Task Force on Preservation Education convened by the Commission on Preservation and Access, chaired by Deanna Marcum, dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Catholic University, has issued the final report of the Preservation Education Institute held August 2-4, 1990, at Wye Plantation, Queenstown, Md. Library administrators, educators, archivists, network staff, and preservation specialists were invited to the institute to explore the possibilities of placing preservation in amore central position in library school curricula. Single copies of the report are available at no charge while supplies last from The Commission on Preservation and Access.

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