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

Persistence of memory 
The Northeast Document Conservation 
Center (NEDCC) and the Museum Computer 
Network (MCN) are sponsoring “Persistence 
of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets” 
November 1–2, 2005, in Boston, Massachu-
setts. This two-day conference will present 
best practices for long-term retention of 
digital resources and address organizational, 
financial, and technological challenges to 
digital preservation. 

The conference costs $285. Registra-
tion deadline is October 21, 2005. (It is 
a preconference to the MCN 2005 con-
ference and separate registrations are 
required.) For more information, contact 
Ginny Hughes, NEDCC, 100 Brickstone 
Square, Andover, MA 01810; phone: 
(978) 470-1010; fax: (978) 475-6021; e-
mail ghughes@nedcc.org; URL: www. 
nedcc.org. 

Insurance manual 
ALA’s Library Administration and Manage-
ment Association (LAMA) has published 
Risk and insurance management manual 
for libraries by Mary Breighner, vice-presi-
dent of FM Global, and William Payton, 
director of risk and insurance management 
at the University of Missouri. 

This book is intended to help those 
responsible for library assets to protect 
them from loss due to natural or man-made 
disasters. It includes chapters about risk 
management philosophy, risk identifi ca-
tion, quantification and evaluation, loss 
prevention, risk financing, insurance, new 
construction, and claims. 

The book costs $36 for ALA members or 
$40 for nonmembers. To order, call (866) 
Shop-ALA or visit the ALA online store at 
www.alastore.ala.org. 

Jane Hedberg is preservation program offi  cer at Harvard 
University Library, e-mail: jane_hedberg@harvard.edu; 
fax: (617) 496-8344 

NPO storage conference 
The National Preservation Office (NPO) in 
the British Library has published Where Shall 
We Put It? Spotlight on Collection Storage 
Issues, papers from a conference held on 
October 4, 2004. The presentations included 
are “The future of collection storage” by 
Helen Shenton; “The preservation environ-
ment: Diagnosis and treatment” by Jim Reilly; 
“Where is it? The future of moving national 
collections and how new technology in the 
commercial sector can help with tracking and 
moving” by Reg Allen; “An alternative for the 
long-term storage of archival records—A salt 
mine in Cheshire” by Anna Bülow and Tom 
Gregan; “’Say unto this mountain, Remove 
hence to yonder place’: Moving the John 
Rylands Library” by John Hodgson; “CASS: 
Exploring the benefits of joint storage in 
Scotland” by Neil Dumbleton; and “A UK 
first: An automated, high-density solution for 
the British Library” by Dawn Olney. 

The proceedings are available as a free 
642 KB PDF at www.bl.uk/services/npo 
/conf2004.pdf. 

PREMIS data dictionary 
The Preservation Metadata: Implementa-
tion Strategies Working Group (PREMIS) 
has published Data dictionary for pres­
ervation metadata: Final r eport of the 
PREMIS working group, which contains a 
description of the PREMIS data model, the 
data dictionary (version 1.0), examples, a 
description of the methodology, implemen-
tation considerations, special topics, and 
a glossary. As noted in the introduction, 
the data dictionary “defines and describes 
an implementable set of core preservation 
metadata with broad applicability to digital 
preservation repositories . . . not intended 
to be fixed and final . . .” 

For up-to-date information about PREMIS 
activities or to access a free 237-page PDF 
copy of the publication, visit www.oclc. 
org/research/projects/pmwg/. 

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