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C&RL News, November 2004
Vol. 65, No. 10

by Jane Hedberg

Building projects
The Southeastern Library Network, Inc. (SOLINET) has published online Under Construction: Preservation and Collections Care Issues during Building Projects and Renovations, the proceedings of a preservation conference held at its Annual Membership Meeting in May 2003. This collection of presentations includes: “The ‘Ideal’ Preservation Environment” by Michael Trinkley (Chicora Foundation, Inc.); “Connecting the Community of Scholars: A Library Building from Planning to Reality” by Mary Molinaro (University of Kentucky); “Creating Today’s ARC Takes More Than Forty Days and Forty Nights” by Ann Hamilton (Georgia Southern University); “What Your Contractor Never Told You: Strategies for Protecting Your Institution during Construction and Renovation” by Scott Devine (North Carolina State University); “The Moving of Collections” by Alfred Lemmon (Historic New Orleans Collection); and “Fire Protection during Renovations and Alterations” by Deborah Freeland (Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.).

A PDF of the proceedings is available free-of-charge at www.solinet.net/preservation/preservation_templ.cfm?doc_id=2686.

California Preservation Clearinghouse
A small group of California librarians and archivists has created a Web site to act as a statewide clearinghouse for information about preservation. The California Preservation Clearinghouse (CPC) provides information about emergency preparedness and response, preservation education, preservation management, collections maintenance, programs and workshops, consulting services, the California Preservation Program (CPP), and the CaLibArc-Preserve discussion list. Although intended for Californians, the Web site contains material that may be of help to others, including a generic disaster plan workbook, a disaster plan template, a disaster plan exercise, a Web-based tutorial on the care and handling of books, an explanation of preserving digital objects, a presentation about saving family treasures, and much more.

The CPC URL is cpc.stanford.edu. For more information about the CPC or the CPP contact, Sheryl J. Davis, Preservation Services-Science Library, University of California-Riverside, P.O. Box 5900, Riverside, CA 92517-5900; phone: (909) 787-4660; e-mail: sheryl.davis@ucr.edu or Julie A. Page, Preservation Department-Geisel Library, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. 0175N, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175; phone: (858) 534-7695; e-mail: jpage@ucsd.edu.

CDL digital glossary
The California Digital Library (CDL) has mounted on its Web site a glossary of digital words and terms that covers crawling and harvesting, digital objects, interface customization tools, library and technology, linking services, metasearching, preservation, XML, plus terms used by CDL and the University of California.

The glossary URL is www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/glossary.

Cornell internships
Cornell University Library will conduct an internship program in preservation management and practice for Native Americans during the next two years. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, this program is intended to create a cadre of 12 professionals to work in tribal colleges and universities influencing the preservation of Native American cultural heritage and training others in appropriate preservation practice.

Six interns will study and work at Cornell in Ithaca, New York, during June, July, and August of 2005 and another six will train in the summer of 2006. They will learn about preservation program development, including preparing needs assessments, surveys, emergency preparedness and response plans, and grant proposals.

The internship, costs of travel and housing, and a $5,000 stipend will be provided to each applicant selected. For more information, contact Barbara B. Eden, Associate Director, IRIS/Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance, Cornell University Library, B15 Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14853; phone: (607) 255-5291; fax: (607) 254-7493; e-mail: beb1@cornell.edu.