ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries September 1 9 9 7 /5 7 3 Preservation N e w s Jane Hedberg Commission promotes regional cooperation The Commission on Preser­ vation and Access is sp o n ­ soring a one-year project to coordinate com m unication am ong the regional preser­ vation field services. The four services participating are AMIGOS Preservation Service, th e C onservation Center for Art and Historic A rtifa c ts (CCAHA), th e N o rth east D o cu m e n t C o n serv atio n C enter (NEDCC), and the Southeastern Library Net­ w ork (SOLINET) Preservation Services. It is h o p ed that by sharing training and educational materials, eliminating redundant training and p u b lis h in g a c tiv itie s , a n d c o o r d in a tin g fundraising activities, they can offer more effi­ cient services. Their first effort is a newsbrief called “Regional Alliance for P reservation,” w hich the commission m ade available as an insert in its June 1997 newsletter. They also plan construction of a Web site. For more in­ formation or a free copy o f the newsbrief, con­ tact any of the regional field services. AMIGOS is in Dallas, Texas; phone: (800) 843-8482; e- mail: clareson@amigos.org; Web site: h ttp :// www.am igos.org. CCAHA is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; phone: (215) 545-0613; e-mail: CCAHA@ shrsys.hslc.org; W eb site: h ttp : // w w w.ccaha.org. NEDCC is in Andover, Massa­ c h u s e tts; p h o n e : (508) 470-1010; e-m ail: d a lto n @ n e d c c .o r g ; W e b site : h t t p : / / w w w .nedcc.org. SOLINET is in Atlanta, Geor­ g ia ; p h o n e : (8 0 0 ) 9 9 9 -8 5 5 8 ; e -m a il: ju lie_ a rn o tt@ so lin et.n et; W eb site: h t t p : / / w w w . solinet.net/presvtn/ p resh o m e. htm . Emergency response and salvage wheel The National Task Force o n Emergency Re­ sponse has developed a wheel device that pro­ vides basic information about emergency re­ sponse on one side and salvaging dam aged collections on the other. Although the wheel and accom panying letter stress the value o f ad­ vance preparation, it is intended as an easy reference guide for staff of cultural institutions suddenly confronted by an emergency. The response advice covers di­ saster alerts, safety, p repa­ rations b efo re en terin g a building, stabilizing a build­ ing environment, docum en­ tation, protection of collec­ tio n s o n - s ite , d a m a g e assessment, salvage priori­ ties, and special concerns for historic buildings. The sal­ vage advice covers books a n d p a p e r , e le c tr o n i c records, textiles, furniture, ceramics/stone/m etal, organic materials, natu­ ral history specimens, framed art works, and photographs. The National Task Force on Emer­ gency Response is an initiative o f the Federal Em ergency M anagem ent Agency, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the National Insti­ tute for the Conservation of Cultural Property (NIC) with cooperation from more than 25 other public and private agencies, including the ALA. Copies of the w heel w ere distributed free of charge this past summ er to more than 45,000 libraries, museums, archives, and historical or­ ganizations. Funds for this massive production and distribution w ere provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the St. Paul Companies, Inc., an anonym ous foundation. If you did not receive a w heel or w ould like ex­ tra copies, you may order them from the NIC at 3299 K St. NW, Ste. 602, Washington, DC 20007-4415; phone: (888) 979-2233 (toll-free); fax: (202) 625-1485. Prices for single copies range from $5.95 for nonprofit organizations or governmental agencies to $9.95 for other customers. Discounts are available for orders of ten or more copies. NDLF welcomes sponsors Follow ing th e o rg an izatio n al ch an g es that brought it under the auspices of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), the National Digital Library Federation (NDLF) is now accepting sponsors. Libraries interested in becoming sponsors must be actively engaged (Preservation News cont. on page 587) Jane Hedberg prepares this column f o r the College Libraries Committee, Commission on Preservation a nd Access. Submissions m ay be m ade to: Jane Hedberg, Wellesley College;JHEDBERG@WELLESLEY.EDU. mailto:clareson@amigos.org http://www.amigos.org mailto:CCAHA@shrsys.hslc.org http://www.ccaha.org mailto:dalton@nedcc.org http://www.nedcc.org mailto:julie_arnott@solinet.net solinet.net/presvtn/ 5 74 /C&RL News September 1 9 9 7 / 5 8 7 public access librarian at Hostos Community College, City University o f New York. R a n d a ll S o u th e r is now assistant reference librarian at the University of San Francisco. K r istin e S tacy-B ates is now engineering and collections reference librarian at the Iowa State University Library. R am on a H. T h iss has been appointed infor­ mation services m anager at Tompkins-McCaw Library, Virginia Commonwealth University’s health sciences library. J ia n W ang has been nam ed catalog librarian at th e U niversity o f M ic h ig a n -D e a rb o rn ’s Mardigian Library. S h e lly W arw ick has joined the faculty of the Graduate School o f Library and Information Studies at Q ueens College, City University of New York. R e tir e m e n ts D a v id C urry, head of the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University o f Iowa Libraries, retired Ju n e 30, 1997, after 21 years in the position. Prior to his appointm ent at the Hardin Library, he served as engineering librarian and m athem atics librarian from 1972 to 1975. F red D u g a n , cataloger at the University of Texas at Austin, retired May 1, 1997, after more than 35 years o f service. W illia m D . M oritz recently retired after 31 years o f service to the University of Wiscon­ sin-M ilw aukee’s G olda Meir Library. Since 1971, he served as the library’s associate di­ rector, with tw o years as acting director dur­ ing that time. From 1966 to 1967 he served as interlibrary loan librarian. After that, until 1971, he was administrative assistant to the director. N a n cy B allard W a lsh retired after a diverse career including serving for ten years as the library director at the Industrial College o f the Armed Forces. J o h n W o m a ck , bibliographer for serials, En­ glish literature, and econom ics for the Collec­ tions and Information Resources Division at the University o f Texas at Austin, retired April 30, 1997, after more than 35 years o f service. D e a th s L ester E u g e n e A s h e im , 83, retired William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor at the School of In­ formation and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), died in July. Asheim had also served on the faculty o f the Graduate Library School at the Univer­ sity of Chicago, 1948 to 1961 and 1971 to 1974, w here he was dean from 1952 to 1961. He di­ rected ALA’s International Relations Office from 1961 to 1966 and its Office for Library Education from 1966 to 1971. In 1975 he joined the faculty of UNC-CH, w here he taught until his retire­ ment in 1984. Often cited as his most important work, Asheim’s 1954 article “Not Censorship but Selection” studies the distinction between selec­ tion and censorship. Asheim received his Ph.D. from the University o f Chicago. S o lo m o n B eh ar, formerly humanities librar­ ian at the University o f California, Berkeley, died unexpectedly in May. He joined the li­ brary in 1961 in the Gifts Division o f the Ac­ quisitions Department. In 1969 he becam e head of the Protest Literature Collection, and in 1973 he was a founding m em ber of the Collection D evelopment Office. H isa y o M u rakam i, 68, program m anager of the Gordon W. Prange Collection at the Uni­ versity of Maryland, College Park, died in June after undergoing surgery. Since 1994, Murakami had managed the Prange Collection, a collec­ tion o f Japanese-language publications for the immediate postw ar years (1945-49) of the Al­ lied occupation of Japan. She played key roles during the visits to the Prange Collection by fo rm e r J a p a n e s e p rim e m in is te r N o b o ru Takeshita and by Shin-ichiro Ogata, librarian o f the National Diet Library of Japan. ■ ( P reserva tio n N ew s co n t. f r o m p a g e 5 7 3 ) in a s u b s t a n tiv e d ig ita l p r o je c t a n d willing to contribute staff resources to NDLF projects. Sponsorship costs $19,000 per year, plus $25,000 during the next five years for a capital investment fund. The CLIR was formed by the merger of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Council on Library Resources. For more information on sponsorship, contact Deanna Marcum, president, CLIR; phone: (202) 939-3400; e-mail: dmarcum@clir.org. ■ mailto:dmarcum@clir.org