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October 2011  545 C&RL News

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

Hurricanes and floods
This past summer was more dangerous than 
usual for heritage collections in the United 
States, so the preservation directorate at the 
Library of Congress (LC) is promoting use 
of the extensive emergency recovery and 
response information on its Web site. There 
is an introduction to emergency response, 
followed by sections devoted to coping 
with earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, 
mudslides, tornados, volcano eruptions, and 
winter storms. For dealing with water dam-
age, a common occurrence in many types of 
emergencies, the site has three documents: 
“Quick Reference: Disaster Response and Re-
covery,” “When Waters Rise,” and “Response 
to Floods and Water Damage for Libraries, 
Archives, Museums, and Other Repositories.”

LC’s recovery and response information 
can be found at www.loc.gov/preservation 
/emergprep/recovery.html.

Connecting to Collections online
Heritage Preservation, in cooperation with 
the American Association for State and Lo-
cal History, has launched the Connecting to 
Collections (C2C) Online Community. The 
community aims to provide smaller cultural 
institutions with a virtual place to find pres-
ervation information and access to profes-
sional advice. 

It has a meeting room for Webinars pre-
sented by experts in a variety of preservation 
fields, a discussion forum for questions and 
conversation, a featured resource that will 
change approximately every two weeks, a 
calendar of preservation-related events, and 
an archive of past discussions. The C2C On-
line Community is supported by funding from 
the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The C2C Online Community can be found 
at www.connectingtocollections.org.

AIC guide
The American Institute for Conservation of 
Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) has published 
the second edition of The AIC Guide to Digital 
Photography and Conservation Documenta-
tion. The 224-page book covers the workflow, 
equipment, camera settings, image processing, 
storage and backup of electronic records, 
and photographic techniques necessary to 
support conservation documentation. It also 
includes more than 120 color illustrations, six 
appendices, a glossary, a bibliography and a 
list of online resources. It was authored by 
Franziska Frey, Dawn Heller, Dan Kushel, 
Timothy Vitale, Gawain Weaver, and edited 
by Jeffrey Warda.

The guide costs $75 and may be purchased 
from AIC at www.conservation-us.org/index.
cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=1531.

Preserving maps
The Conservation Center for Art and His-
toric Artifacts (CCAHA) is offering “Exploring 
Maps: History, Fabrication, and Preservation,” 
a program about map preservation November 
2–3, 2011, at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia 
in Pennsylvania. The faculty will include 
Deborah Boyer (Azavea), Martin Brückner 
(University of Delaware), Joseph Garver 
(Harvard University), Ronald Grim (Boston 
Public Library), John Hessler (Library of 
Congress), Abraham Parish (Yale University), 
Bruce Laverty (Philadelphia Athenaeum), and 
Jim Hinz, Richard Homer, Jessica Makin, and 
Samantha Sheesley (CCAHA).

Registration costs $225 for CCAHA mem-
bers and $250 for nonmembers. The registra-
tion deadline is October 21. For more infor-
mation or to register, go to www.ccaha.org 
/education/program-calendar/2011/11/02 
/history-preservation-of-maps. 

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