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Preservation News

Jane Hedberg

Jane Hedberg prepares this column for the College Libraries Committee, Commission on Preservation and Access. Submissions may be made to: Jane Hedberg, Wellesley College; JHEDBERG@WELLESLEY.EDU.

Commission and CLR merge

The Commission on Preservation and Access and the Council on Library Resources (CLR) will officially merge on July 1, 1997. Until that time, the two organizations will operate pro tempore as a merged organization. The legal documents necessary to finalize the restructuring, plus the new name and mission statement will be drawn up by April 1997. The new organization will continue to be active in all former program areas: leadership, digital libraries, economics of information, preservation and access, international initiatives, and discussions with scholars. Stanley Chodorow will serve as chairman, Marilyn Gell Mason as vice-chairman, David B. Gracy II as secretary, and Dan Tonkery as treasurer.

Preservation meetings at Midwinter

There will be a number of Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) meetings during the ALA Midwinter Meeting, and because it is taking place in Washington, D.C., many will be held at the Library of Congress. In particular, the Preservation Administrators Discussion Group (PADG) will hold its meeting on Friday, February 14, 2:00-5:30 p.m. in the Mumford Room at LC. Everyone with an interest in preservation administration is invited to attend. For more information about the PADG meeting, contact either John Dean, Cornell University, jfd5@cornell.edu, or Winston Atkins, North Carolina State University, winston_atkins @nscu.edu. For times and locations of other meetings, consult the official ALA schedule or AN2, the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services’ (ALCTS) electronic newsletter. To subscribe to AN2, send an e-mail message to listproc@ala.org with only the following line of text: subscribe an2 [your name],

LAPNet updates disaster lists

The Los Angeles Preservation Network (LAPNet) has published the second edition of its List of Disaster Supplies and Suppliers and Disaster Consultants List. Both lists have a bias toward Los Angeles sources, but national sources are also included. Copies are available from Katherine Donahue, LAPNet treasurer, c/o UCLA Biomedical Library, P.O. Box 951798, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798. Supplies and Suppliers costs $35.00, Consultants costs $20.00, both together cost $45.00. Orders must be prepaid and include the following information: institution name, individual name, address with zip code, and choice of paper or diskette format (it may be 5 1/4” or 3 1/2” and have WP5.0, WP5.1, or ASCII text).

NARA preservation conference

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will hold its 12th annual preservation conference on March 18, 1997, in College Park, Maryland. The conference is titled: “What Is Being Done to Control Insects and Mold Now that Systematic Fumigation Has Ended?” Topics and speakers include large-scale pest monitoring (Carol Butler, National Museum of Natural History), fungal problems and solutions (Mary Lou Florian, formerly of the Royal British Columbia Museum), integrated programs (Albert Greene, General Services Administration), pest management (Margaret Hacker, NARA), hazards of control strategies (Wendy Clare Jessup, Jessup and Assoc.), and new control strategies (Tom Strang, Canadian Conservation Institute). More information or registration forms are available from NARA by e-mail at preserve@nara.gov or fax: (301) 713-6653.

Listserv about moving images

AMIA-L is the online discussion list of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, which focuses on topics relating to the preservation of moving images on film, video, or other formats. To subscribe to AMIA-L, send an e-mail message to Listserv@lsv.uky.edu with only the following line of text: Subscribe AMIA-L [your name]. ■