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C&RL News November 2010  562

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

Conservation videos
The American Institute for Conservation of 
Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) has begun 
posting videos about art and conservation 
on its Web site. Of particular interest is “The 
Plus/Minus Dilemma: The Way Forward in 
Environmental Guidelines,” a video of a 
panel discussion at the AIC Annual Confer-
ence in Milwaukee, May 13, 2010. 

This discussion was the third round 
table in an ongoing International Institute 
for Conservation of Historic and Artistic 
Works (IIC) series, “Dialogues in the New 
Century.” 

The assembled experts discussed envi-
ronmental guidelines for storage, advances 
in environmental research, and ways to 
protect cultural objects in environmentally 
responsible ways. Also of interest may be 
“Behind the Scenes at NYPL’s Conservation 
Lab” and “The Noble Rot” by Ben Hem-
mendinger.

The videos may be found at www.
conservation-us.org/video.

NDIIPP videos
The National Digital Information Infrastruc-
ture and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) at 
the Library of Congress has released three 
new videos. “Bridging Physical and Digital 
Preservation” describes the conservation of 
the Waldseemuller Map, its preservation in a 
special exhibition case, and the digital copy 
and multispectral images created to assist in 
understanding the map. It runs 4 minutes, 
41 seconds. “Why Digital Preservation is 
Important for You” is intended to explain 
to a general audience why it is necessary to 
actively manage digital possessions and to 
offer simple and practical strategies for pre-
serving those possessions. It runs 7 minutes, 
40 seconds. “Archiving Digital Photos” is a 

recording of Phil Michel, the digital conver-
sion coordinator at the Library of Congress’s 
Prints and Photographs division, offering 
practical advice about preserving personal 
photos. It runs 10 minutes, 59 seconds.

All three videos and more are available 
free-of-charge at www.digitalpreservation.
gov/videos/.

PADI terminated
The subject gateway to Preserving Access 
to Digital Information (PADI) and the elec-
tronic list padiforum-l, services provided 
by the National Library of Australia (NLA) 
since 1997, have been discontinued. NLA 
reluctantly concluded that it could no lon-
ger maintain the 3,000+ links in the gateway 
nor could it invest in converting the Web 
site, database, and list to Web 2.0. Although 
the Web site will remain live until the end 
of 2010, no new resources have been added 
since July, and there will not be any further 
link maintenance. 

A copy of the Web site has been archived 
in PANDORA, Australia’s Web archive. An 
archive of padiforum-l will also be avail-
able, but postings ended as of September.

ALCTS Webinar
The Association for Library Collections 
and Technical Services (ALCTS) is offering 
a short Webinar about the fundamentals 
of digital preservation. It will cover the 
definition and three key concepts of digital 
preservation, the risks to digital materi-
als, and the tools available for addressing 
those risks. 

The presenters are Cathy Martyniak (Uni-
versity of Florida) and Emily Gore (Clemson 
University). The Webinar will take place at 
2 p.m. Eastern time, November 17, 2010.

The Webinar costs $39 for ALCTS mem-
bers and $49 for nonmembers. Group rates 
are also available. To register, go to www.
ala.org/ala/onlinelearning/reg/webinar.
cfm. 

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