Courses on preservation of new media

Course in Technology and Preservation of Newer Records Media
Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Sept 6--November 11; (no class 11 October)
NYU's Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York City
Tuition: For three graduate credits $1371 plus fees; Audit (no
credit) $685.50 plus fees

Palmer School of Library and Information Science will offer a course
graduate level course on the technology and preservation of newer
information media this fall at its Manhattan location in NYU's Bobst
Library in Greenwich Village. The course will be taught on Saturday
afternoons by Paul Banks, a well-known specialist in the
preservation of library and archives collections. The course is open
to Palmer School students as well as practitioners or others
interested in the topic, and may be audited or taken for credit.

All information is embodied in physical media, and newer media are
rapidly assuming increasing importance both as media to be preserved
and in some cases as media to which information is transferred for
preservation. Each medium has its own characteristics of permanence,
durability, and response to its environment.

Effective preservation strategies for these media must be based on
thorough understanding of their characteristics, for these media
will not survive passively, as books and manuscripts largely will.

The course deals with the materials and technologies of recorded
information, including video recordings, sound recordings, and
computer storage and output media as well as photographs,
reprographic processes, and motion pictures. The viewpoint of the
course is preservation both as media to be preserved and as
potential preservation media. Preservation strategies including
environmental control and copying will be discussed.

The instructor, Paul Banks, has over thirty years of experience in
library and archives preservation and in preservation education. He
was head of the preservation department at The Newberry Library in
Chicago, and established the first graduate library and archives
preservation program at Columbia University in 1981. He has
consulted, lectured, and published in a wide variety of library and
archives preservation areas.

For further information and registration, please contact the
Manhattan campus of the Palmer School, 212-998-2680; fax
212-995-4072 or e-mail at maylone<-a t->titan< . >liunet< . >edu.

Paul N. Banks
560 Riverside Drive #8L
New York NY 10027
212-865-1304

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