Subject: ALCTS e-forum: Preservation Practices Today: Managing Shrinking
Budgets and Changing Formats
From: "Kristin E. Martin" <kmarti_at_uic.edu>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:28:18 -0600
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to everyone!
Registration information is at the end of the message.
Preservation Practices Today: Managing Shrinking Budgets and Changing
Formats
March 9‐10, 2010.
E-forum starts at 9 AM Eastern, 8 AM Central, 7 AM Mountain, and 6 AM
Pacific time and runs until 8 PM Eastern, 7 PM Central, 6 PM Mountain,
and 5 PM Pacific time
Moderated by: Stephanie Lamson, University of Washington & Peter
Verheyen, Syracuse University with guest Lars Meyer, Emory University,
author of the recent ARL report Safeguarding Collections at the Dawn of
the 21st Century
As the range of preservation activities continues to expand but funding
and staffing to support preservation become increasingly scarce, how are
you and your institution meeting the preservation needs of collections?
Traditional core preservation activities include library binding of
serials and monographs, repair of circulating collections, rehousing and
enclosures, disaster planning, environmental monitoring, reformatting of
brittle materials (microfilming and preservation photocopying) and in
some cases full conservation treatments on special collections
materials. Digitization has become another tool for reformatting brittle
materials and the preservation needs of audio‐visual materials and
digital files have received greater attention as we have become
increasingly aware of their fragility. Of course, the components of a
successful and sustainable institutional preservation program vary
depending on the size and nature of the institution.
* How are you raising awareness of preservation issues both within your
institution and with the greater public?
* What do you need to help you preserve your collections and what
challenges do you face?
Please join our discussion of how libraries are managing preservation in
2010. We will be joined by Lars Meyer, Senior Director, Content Division
at Emory University Libraries, where he is responsible for tech
services, preservation, digitization, and storage. Lars recently
authored the recent ARL report Safeguarding Collections at the Dawn of
the 21st Century, and hosted the webinar in which the report was discussed.
Stephanie Lamson is Head, Binding & Marking and Asst. Preservation
Librarian at the University of Washington Libraries. She began her
career as a preservation technician at Cornell University where she
worked primarily on grant‐funded reformatting projects. She recently
completed a website to support preservation training for library student
employees and a multi‐year project to identify and preserve the most
important early Washington State agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
literature in cooperation with several other institutions.
Peter D. Verheyen is Head of Preservation and Conservation at Syracuse
University. After beginning as work‐study in preservation under John
Dean at Johns Hopkins, he studied binding and conservation in Germany
and Switzerland to become a rare book conservator working in
private practice and research library preservation programs. He
established the conservation lab at Syracuse for the treatment of
special collections materials, and developed a high‐density system for
storing architectural drawings. In response to a need for efficient
rehousing in anticipation of off‐site storage he introduced Syracuse to
the shrink‐wrapping of volumes.
http://library.syr.edu/about/departments/preservation
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--
Kristin E. Martin
Metadata Librarian
Catalog Department (MC 234)
2-390 Richard J. Daley Library
University of Illinois at Chicago
801 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
312-413-5052
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