ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Preservation 
News

J a n e  H e d b e rg

ERO M M  on the W e b
T h e E u ro p ean  R egister o f 
Microform Masters (EROMM) 
is n o w  a v a ila b le  o n  th e  
W orld W ide W eb . It cu r­
rently con tain s m ore than
3 5 0 ,0 0 0  b ib lio g rap h ic re c­
ords o f reform atted b o o k s 
held  b y 32 libraries in 11 
E u ro p e a n  c o u n tr ie s . A p ­
proximately half the titles are 
in French and almost a third 
are in English, with the re­
m ainder in other European 
languages. EROMM intends 
to facilitate ordering use cop ies o f the titles
from the contributing libraries and, therefore,
plans to bring up an online ordering service
soon.

T h e R esearch Libraries G roup (RLG) and
EROMM signed an agreem ent last year to e x
change records. The first sample o f RLG’s RLI
records for reformatted b ooks is now visible in
th e  EROMM d a ta b a s e . T h e  URL is http:/
w w w .brzn.de/erom m /gbvero-e.htm.

C o lu m b ia  fin ish e s  se co n d  p h a s e  of 
im a g e  pro ject
Columbia University has finished the second
phase o f its Oversize Color Images Project and
m ounted the report on its W eb site. The project
was designed to investigate the use o f digital
technology for providing access to brittle vol­
um es containing large color maps. Phase I fo­
cused o n  image quality and the differences b e ­
tw een digital images created from originals and
microform copies. Phase II focused on match­
ing bitm apped images o f text pages scanned
from microfilm with digital images o f the maps,
to create facsimiles o f the original volumes. The
W eb site also contains the report from Phase I
o f the project, m ore than 300 images o f maps
and four com plete volumes, text and images,
o f the New Y ork State Museum bulletin. The
URL is http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/nysmb.

E m e rg e n cy  R e sp o n se  u p d a te
The National Task Force o n  Em ergency Re­
sponse has continued work on its dual mission
to safeguard Am erica’s cultural heritage from
natural disasters and to provide expertise to
help the general public recover from disasters.
It held a one-day summit in D ecem b er 1996 to

 
 
 

 
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bring to g eth e r the alm ost
two dozen participating cul­
tural organizations, associa­
tio n s , and  g o v e r n m e n ta l
ag e n cie s. T h e  A ssociation
for Library Collections and
Technical Services (ALCTS),
with its Preservation and Re­
formatting Section (PARS),
represented ALA. The Task
Force, through The National
Institute for the Conserva­
tio n  o f  Cultural P ro p erty
(NIC), has distributed Flood/

 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

Hurricane Information Pack­
ets to cultural institutions in the Pacific North­
west.

T h e  F e d e r a l E m e r g e n c y  M a n a g e m e n t 
Agency (FEMA), as part o f its w ork with the 
Task Force, has b een  mounting articles about 
salvaging cultural materials on its W eb site. 
There is now  a list o f recom m endations and 
Flood Tips— Saving W ater-Damaged B ooks at 
http://w w w .fem a.gov/fema/Fldbks.htm .

M o re W e b  sites o f in te rest
The Preservation Service (PRESERV) o f the Re­
search Libraries Group has created a W eb page. 
It includes information about PRESERV, its ad­
visory council, participants, strategic plan, and 
working groups. This may be o f most interest 
to RLG m em bers, but does indicate the range 
o f current RLG preservation activities. The URL 
is http://www.rlg.org/preserv.

Arts, Crafts, and Theater Safety, Inc. (ACTS) 
has developed a W eb site about the hazards 
posed  by the toxic or dangerous materials used 
in the arts. It offers health and safety cou nsel­
ing, educational and technical information, and 
referrals to physicians and other sources o f pro­
fessional help. The publications available for 
sale include a four-page data sheet about un­
derstanding Material Safety Data Sheets, and a 
nine-page data sheet about biological hazards. 
T h e URL is http://www .casew eb.com /acts/. 
Data sheets may be ordered for $.25 per page 
from ACTS, 181 Thom pson St., #23, New York, 
NY 10012-2586; phone: (2 1 2 ) 777-0062; e-mail: 
ACTS@CaseW eb.Com. ■

Jane Hedberg p repares this column fo r  the College 
Libraries Committee, Commission on Preservation and 
Access. Submissions may be made to: Jane Hedberg, 
WellesleyCollege;JHEDBERG@WELLESLEY.EDU.

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