ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ December 2003 I 759

P r e s e r v a t i o n  N e w s Jane Hedberg

C o n serve O Gram s o n lin e
The National Park Service (NPS) has m ounted 
over 140 Conserve O Grams on its Web site, 
including 25 n ew  titles. Conserve O Grams 
are issue briefs, usually three to four pages 
long, w hich cover a w ide variety of preser­
vation topics. Although written primarily for 
m useum  collections, they contain informa­
tion useful for caring for library and archives 
collections. Among the 21 topics covered are 
security, fire and curatorial safety, agents of 
deterioration, disaster response and recov­
ery, and archival and manuscript collections 
and rare books. There are 24 Conserve O 
Grams in the latter category, beginning with 
“W hat Makes a Book Rare?” and ending with 
“How  to Preserve Acidic W ood Pulp P aper.”

The URL is w w w .cr.n p s .g o v /m u s eu m / 
publications/conserveogram /cons_toc.htm l. 
Adobe Acrobat 4 or higher is required to 
both view  and print.

A R L p reservatio n  statistics
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) 
has p u b lis h e d  ARL Preservation Statistics 
2001-02. The data show  fluctuations at the 
institutional level, but increases in preserva­
tion expenditures, staffing levels, and vol­
umes microfilmed overall.

The printed report costs $60.00 for mem­
bers or $120.00 for nonm em bers, plus ship­
ping and handling. To order, contact ARL 
Publication Distribution Center, P.O. Box 531, 
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701-0531; phone: 
(301) 362-8196; fax: (301) 206-9789; e-mail: 
pubs@ arl.org; URL: w w w .arl.o rg /p u b sca t/ 
order/. The data tables for FY02 and the p u b ­
lished versions of previous years’ reports are 
available free-of-charge at ww w.arl.org/stats/ 
pres/index. htm l.

D isaster recovery contract
The Preservation and Binding Working Group 
of the Federal Library and Information Cen­
ter Committee (FLICC) has produced a draft 
disaster recovery contract, to assist federal 
agencies, especially libraries an d  archives, 
in working with procurem ent officials and 
vendors. The draft is designed to speed the

contracting process, so m aterials m ay be 
salvaged as quickly as possible. It stresses 
careful consideration of the scope of work, 
security (particularly if the disaster site is a 
crime scene), the length of the contract and 
price.

T h e  URL fo r th e  d r a f t c o n t r a c t is 
w w w . lo c. gov/flicc/pdf/ disaster. p d f.

Ink je t p rin ts sta b ility
The Image Perm anence Institute (IPI) has 
m ounted Stability Issues a n d  Test Methods 
fo r  In k Jet Materials, a thesis by Barbara Vogt 
for the Department of Image Engineering, Uni­
versity of Applied Science, Cologne, Germany. 
In her thesis, Vogt reviews the basics of ink 
jet technology, inks, color science, media de­
sign, light-fastness, water-fastness, humidity- 
fastness, ozone-fastness, and the effects of 
other pollutants, then reports on the results of 
various tests perform ed on various prints. 
These results emphasize the need for stan­
dards for testing ink jet prints and the diffi­
culty of generalizing about ink fading.

The thesis is available at w w w .rit.edu/ 
~661 w w w  l/s u b _ p ag e s/8 p ag e l7 f. h tm .

Needs asse ssm e n t tool, a d d itio n a l in ­
form ation
The Northeast Docum ent Conservation Cen­
ter publication, Assessing Preservation Needs: 
A  Self-Survey G uide (previously described 
in the O ctober 2003 column), is now  avail­
able free-of-charge o n  the NEDCC Web site. 
The accom panying 30-minute video presen­
tation is available for purchase from Amigos 
Library Services, Inc.

T he URL fo r th e  free te x t v e rsio n  is 
w w w .nedcc.org. The video costs $40.00 in 
VHS or $50.00 in DVD (discounts are avail­
able for Amigos members). To order, con­
tact Amigos Library Services, 14400 Midway 
Road, Dallas, TX 75244-3509; phone: (800) 
8 4 3 -8 4 8 2 ; fax : (9 7 2 ) 9 9 1 -6 0 6 1 ; URL: 
www.amigos.org/video_form .htm l. ■

Jane Hedberg is preservation prog ra m  o ffic e r a t Harvard 
University Library, e-mail: jane_hedberg@ harvard.edu; fax: 
(617)496-8344

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