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June 2012  363 C&RL News

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

Emergency wheel
Heritage Preservation’s Emergency Response 
and Salvage Wheel is available as a free app 
for iPhones, iPods, and iPads. The app covers 
important issues to consider during the critical 
initial stages of an emergency that threatens 
cultural property, including “Disaster Alert,” 
“Safety First,” “Going Off-Site,” “Stabilization,” 
“Documentation,” “Retrieve/Protect,” “Assess 
Damage,” “Salvage Priorities,” and “Building 
Tips.” It also outlines the first steps to be taken 
to salvage damaged books and paper, photo-
graphs, electronic records, paintings, textiles, 
furniture, ceramics/stone/metal, organic mate-
rials, and natural history specimens.

The app is available free-of-charge from 
the Apple App Store. Search for “ERS: Emer-
gency Response and Salvage.” It requires iOS 
5.1 or later.

Education directory
The Preservation and Reformatting Section 
of the Association for Library Collections and 
Technical Services has updated its Preserva-
tion Education Directory. The 9th edition of 
the online directory contains course listings 
and content information for graduate-level 
preservation and preservation-related courses 
offered in the United States and Canada. It also 
lists institutions and organizations that provide 
continuing education courses in preserva-
tion. In this revision the directory has been 
expanded to cover audiovisual and digital 
media preservation.

The directory is available free-of-charge 
at www.ala.org/alcts/resources/preservation 
/educationdirectory.

Preserving e-resources
The Coalition for Networked Information 
(CNI) has mounted video of “Preservation 
Status of e-Resources: A Potential Crisis in 

Electronic Journal Preservation.” The lecture 
was delivered at the December 2011 CNI 
meeting by Oya Rieger, associate university 
librarian for digital scholarship services at 
Cornell University, and Robert Wolven, as-
sociate university librarian for bibliographic 
services and collection development at 
Columbia University. The speakers reported 
some early findings from their study of e-
journal preservation that indicate significant 
preservation risks remain despite recent 
efforts to mitigate them.

The video is available free-of charge on 
YouTube at http://youtu.be/sjAaSRJILd0 and 
on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/35776220.

Orphan works conference
The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology 
at University of California-Berkeley School of 
Law has mounted audio recordings and slide 
shows from many of the presentations made 
at “Orphan Works and Mass Digitization: 
Obstacles and Opportunities.” The confer-
ence, held on April 12–13, 2012, in Berkeley, 
California, considered the current relationship 
between copyright law and orphan works 
(i.e., works still under copyright but whose 
rights holders cannot be located through a 
reasonably diligent search). 

Session 1 was “Who wants to make use of 
orphan works and why?”, session 2 was “Who 
is concerned about broader access to orphans 
and why?,” session 3 was “What is the best ap-
proach to addressing the orphan works prob-
lem?,” session 4 was “What role should regis-
tries play in averting orphan work problems? 
What mechanisms will facilitate information 
sharing about which works are public domain, 
orphan, or open access?,” session 5 was “Who 
wants to do mass digitization and why?,” and 
session 6 was “Should data mining and other 
non-consumptive uses of in-copyright digital 
works be permissible, and why?”

The agenda, recordings, and slide shows 
are available free-of-charge at www.law.
berkeley.edu/11731.htm. 

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