ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Preservation 
N ew s

Jan e  Hedberg

Dalton heads NEDCC 
field service
Steve Dalton, director o f re­
pro g rap h ic services at th e  
Northeast D ocum ent Conser­
vation C enter (NEDCC) for 
about tw o years, will becom e 
the director o f its Field Ser­
vices Program  in June. H e re­
places K aren  M otylew ski, 
w ho left to  b eco m e director 
of Preservation an d  C onser­
vation Studies at th e Univer­
sity of T exas at Austin.

Commission mounts hom epage
The Comm ission o n  Preservation an d  Access 
has m o u n ted  a h o m ep ag e o n  th e W orld W ide 
Web at h ttp ://w w w .c p a .o rg /. As o f this w rit­
ing, it contains inform ation on  Comm ission staff 
and organization, a n u m b er o f pub lish ed  Com­
mission docum ents, an d  som e back issues of 
the C om m ission n ew sletter. It w ill b e  a u g ­
m ented by oth er Comm ission docum ents in the 
future. M. Stuart Lynn, Com m ission vice-presi
dent, desig n ed  th e  h o m ep ag e as an  easy w ay 
for readers to  locate Comm ission information. 
Readers are rem inded that m any preservation 
and conservation docum ents are also available 
on CoOL (C o n se rv a tio n  O n lin e ) at h t t p : / /  
palim psest.stanford.edu/.

For m ore information, contact M. Smart Lynn, 
C o m m issio n  o n  P re s e rv a tio n  a n d  A ccess, 
phone: (510) 548-2244; e-mail: mslynn@ cpa.org.

USC concludes digital photographic 
archives plan
The U niversity o f S outhern California (USC) 
Libraries has co m p le te d  th e  im plem en tatio n  
plan for a fully cataloged digital photographic 
archives. D evelopm ent o f th e p lan  included 
surveying researchers about potential electronic 
image usage, creating a 23,000-image database 
w ith a digital im age delivery system, a n d  co n ­
structing a digital preservation m odel for origi­
nal p h o to g ra p h ic  reco rd s. T h e p reserv atio n  
m odel ad v o cates careful c o n sid e ra tio n  o f a 
num b er o f factors a n d  som e subjective deci­
sions in o rd er to  determ ine ap p ro p riate scan­
ning param eters.

F o r m o r e  i n f o r m a t i o n , c o n t a c t  J o h n  
W aiblinger, Assistant University Librarian for 
Scholarly T echnology & Inform ation Systems,

USC Library, Los Angeles, 
CA 9 0 0 8 9 -0 1 8 2 ; e -m a il: 
w aibling@calvin.u se .e d u .

RIT offers photograph 
preservation sem inar
T h e R ochester Institute of 
T echnology’s (RIT) T echni­
cal a n d  E ducation C enter of 
th e  G raphic Arts an d  Im ag­
in g , in  c o n ju n c tio n  w ith  
RIT’s Im age P erm anence In­
s t i t u t e  a n d  th e  G e o r g e  
E a s tm a n  H o u s e  I n t e r n a ­
tional M useum  of P hotog­

raph y an d  Film, will offer a five-day sem inar 
entitled, “Preserving P hotographs in a Digital 
W orld.” T he sem inar includes three days o f “tra­
ditional” pho to g rap h  preservation an d  tw o days 
o f digital im aging technology. Jam es Reilly, 
G ra n t Ro m er, D o u g la s N ish im u ra, D e b b ie  
Norris, D avid W ooters, an d  Franziska Frey will 
serve o n  th e faculty. The sem inar will b e  held 
at th e  G eorge Eastm an H ouse M useum  o f P h o ­
tog rap h y  an d  Film in Rochester, N ew  York, 
August 19– 24, 1995, an d  A ugust 17– 22, 1996.

Cost is $950 for th e sem inar, instructional 
materials, and evening receptions. (Travel, food, 
an d  lodging are n o t included.) For m ore infor­
m ation, contact Val Jo hnson, RIT/T&E Seminar 
Center, Frank E. G annett Building, 66 Lomb 
M em orial Drive, R ochester, NY 14623-5604; 
phone: (716) 475-2736.

M arcum reaffirm s Commission 
commitment
In a com m unication entitled “T he Fullest Defi­
nition o f Preservation,” D eanna Marcum, new  
p resident o f th e Com m ission o n  Preservation 
an d  Access, reaffirm ed the Com m ission’s com ­
m itm ent to  traditional, as w ell as digital preser­
vation. She w rote, “T he Comm ission m ust not 
lose sight o f th e fullest definition of preserva­
tion an d  access if it is to  m eet its obligations.” 
For the com plete text o f he r statem ent, see the 
May 1995 issue o f th e Com m ission’s new slet
ter.

J a n e  Hedberg prepares this column f o r  the College 
Libraries Committee, Commission on Preservation 
a n d  Access. Submissions m ay be m ade to: J a n e  
Hedberg, Wellesley College Library, 106 Central St., 
Wellesley, MA 02181; JHEDBERG@WELLESLEY.EDU.

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