The Preservation Committee of the Technical Services Special Interest Section is seeking to establish liaisons with other organizations in AALL. I am the liaison from the Preservation Committee to ALL-SIS. At the Annual Meeting in San Antonio, I distributed flyers inviting ALL-SIS members to the Preservation Program B-3, in which Pat Turpening described the Northeast Document Conservation Center Preservation Survey, which seven academic librarians from Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, and Washington State researched from August 2004 to June 2005. Three of the librarians, Ann Nez of the University of Washington; Curt Conklin of Brigham Young; and Joe Thomas of Notre Dame discussed their experiences and discoveries. I moderated the discussion.
Also part of the invitation flyer was the Preservation and Binding Roundtable featuring Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, the Director of the Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record at the School of Information at the University of Texas. The Center was established last fall with a $1M endowment from William Kilgarlin, a former Texas Supreme Court Justice. According to the press release announcing the Center, “Through research and education, the Center's mission is to advance knowledge and practice in the record of the human enterprise, creativity, and discovery. Building on the School of Information’s top ranking programs in preservation management and conservation studies, the new Center will also address pressing concerns in digital preservation, and promote research, education, and public outreach in the broad area of cultural records management.” Ellen also teaches courses in preservation management, preservation reformatting, conservation, and digitization. Ellen spoke about some exciting initiatives being undertaken at the Kilgarlin Center.
Please contact me with your preservation questions and challenges. I will be glad to research them for you.
Sally Wambold, Law Library, University of Richmond VA 23173
Phone: 804-289-8226 Fax: 804-287-1845
swambold@richmond.edu