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February 2012  107 C&RL News

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

Preservation Week
The third annual Preservation Week will be 
April 22–28, 2012. All cultural institutions, 
especially libraries, are encouraged to use 
Preservation Week events, activities, and 
resources to promote what we can do to 
preserve our personal and shared heritage 
collections.

For more information about Preservation 
Week, access to an event toolkit with sug-
gestions for planning and promoting events, 
and to add your event to the 2012 Preserva-
tion Week Google map, go to www.ala.org 
/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/preswk 
/index.cfm. This year Preservation Week also 
has a Facebook page at www.facebook.com 
/preservationweek.

ALCTS CE programming
The Association for Library Collections & 
Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced 
its upcoming online continuing education 
schedule. They will again offer “Fundamen-
tals of Preservation,” an introductory course 
designed to provide all types of library staff 
with a basic understanding of how to pro-
long the useful life of collections. 

The course consists of four sessions, 
spread over approximately eight months. 
Session one will be held from March 26 to 
April 20, session two from May 21 to June 
15, session three from September 10 to  
October 5, and session four from October 
22 to November 16. Instructors include 
Karen Brown (SUNY-Albany), Andy Hart, 
(University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), 
Julie Mosbo (Southern Illinois University-
Carbondale), Jacob Nadal (UCLA), and Peter 
Verheyen (Syracuse University).

ALCTS is also offering three one-hour 
preservation Webinars. “Preparing for the 
Worst” on February 22nd will be taught by 

Jennifer Hain Teper (University of Illinois) 
and Bobbie Pilette (Yale University). 

“Taking Care: Family Textiles” on April 
24 will be taught by Bronwyn Eves (Il-
linois State Museum). “Preserving Your 
Personal Digital Photographs” on April 26 
will be taught by Bill LeFurgy (Library of 
Congress).

The Fundamentals course is $109 for 
ALCTS members and $129 for nonmembers. 
Each Webinar is $39 for ALCTS members 
and $49 for nonmembers. For more infor-
mation or to register, go to www.ala.org 
/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/index.
cfm.

Newspaper archive summit
“A Mandate to Preserve: Assessing the Inau-
gural Newspaper Archive Summit,” a white 
paper written by Victoria McCargar, reports 
about the first Newspaper Archive Summit 
held April 10–12, 2011. The summit brought 
together archivists, librarians, historians, 
news publishers, and news content ven-
dors to consider the perilous state of news 
preservation. 

As more newspapers cease print publica-
tion or go out of business, more paper and 
digital content is put at risk. Participants 
considered the importance of preserving 
the “first draft of history,” the urgency of 
the threat, stakeholders who should be 
consulted, digital challenges, funding, out-
comes, and possible topics for consideration 
at a second summit. The first summit was 
sponsored by Reynolds Journalism Institute, 
University of Missouri (MU) Libraries, Miz-
zou Advantage at MU, and the Library of 
Congress.

The white paper is available as a free 
PDF at rjionline.org/sites/default/files 
/archives-whitepaper1.pdf. 

For more information about Summit I and 
the proposed Summit II, contact Kelly Peery, 
phone: (573) 882-9650; e-mail: PeeryK@
missouri.edu. 

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