Symposium on library and archive collections

The Ohio Preservation Council and the State Library of Ohio announce a
symposium,"Preservation Strategies For Library and Archival
Collections,"  on Friday, September 19 in Columbus (Dublin) Ohio, at
OCLC, 9:30 am to 3:30 PM. The program includes four presentations.

    Session 1: Preventive conservation for paper-based collections.
    Speaker: Cathleen A. Baker, Paper conservator.
        Cathy Baker has been a paper conservator for 25 years.
        Formerly on the faculty of the Art Conservation program at
        Buffalo State College, she is currently a graduate student
        in  the MFA program in Book Arts at the University of
        Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Her talk covers environmental
        concerns, storage, housing, and fundamentals of care that
        will protect a collection, even in the absence of a
        dedicated preservation or conservation staff.

    Session 2: Disaster preparedness and disaster response
    Speaker: Karen Sinkule, National Library of Medicine
        Karen Sinkule heads the Collections Conservation and
        Preservation Microfilming programs at the National Library
        of Medicine. The NLM has a highly developed program of
        preparedness, and considerable experience in the recovery of
        water damaged materials.  The deployment of appropriate
        supplies and equipment, as well as the techniques for
        recovery after a disaster will be covered.

    Session 3: Treatment assessment for book collections: performing
    "triage" in the networked, digital environment
    Speaker: Wesley Boomgaarden, Preservation Officer, Ohio State
    University
        Wes Boomgarden has served the field of library materials
        preservation administration since 1983, and has written and
        lectured on a wide variety of preservation topics. He will
        examine the changing role of "preservation triage," the
        review of damaged or deteriorated materials for
        conservation, replacement, and reformatting. In the
        increasingly networked, digital environment, how are
        treatment, retention, and reformatting decisions changing?
        How will we define the importance of "the original" even
        with "ordinary" traditional library materials?

    Session 4: Dard Hunter, historian of paper.
    Speaker: Cathleen A. Baker, Paper Conservator and Dard Hunter
    Biographer
        Cathleen Baker has researched the life of paper historian
        Dard Hunter, who traveled globally to study paper, and
        published books on the history of paper and papermaking.  Ms
        Baker's definitive biography of Dard Hunter is entitled, By
        his own labor: the Biography of Dard Hunter. It will be
        published in 1998.

Registration fee: OPC members, $10, non-members, $15
Registration deadline: September 12,1997
To receive a brochure, please contact

    Clara Ireland
    Preservation Consultant
    State Library of Ohio
    800-686-1533
    cireland<-a t->slonet< . >ohio< . >gov

Ann Olszewski, Preservation Librarian
Cleveland Public Library
17133 LakeShore Blvd
Cleveland, OH  44110-4006
216-623-2813
Fax: 216-623-2920

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