Workshop on scanning

The Northeast Document Conservation Center announces an extension of
the registration deadline for school for scanning NYC.  The new
registration deadline is October 24, 1997. School for Scanning:
Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections,
November 3-5, 1997;  At the New York Academy of Medicine,  1216 5th
Ave. (at 103rd St.), NYC

School for Scanning is a conference designed to take the mystery out
of digital technology while training participants in: The Basics of
Digital Technology; File Formats; Content Selection for
Digitization; Legal Issues; Text and Image Scanning; Quality
Control and Costs; Metadata; Digital Preservation; World Wide Web
Applications; CD-ROM Publications.

The faculty includes: Steve Dalton, NEDCC; Howard Besser, University
of California at Berkeley; Steve Chapman, Harvard University; Paul
Conway, Yale University Library; Richard Ekman, The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation; Franziska Frey, Image Permanence Institute; Janet Gertz,
Columbia University; Kevin Guthrie, JSTOR; Paul Handly, National
Park Service; Melissa Smith Levine, Library of Congress; Steve
Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Roy
Rosenzweig, George Mason University; Maxine Sitts,Digital
Communications Consultant; Roy Tennant, University of California at
Berkeley; Diane van der Reyden, Conservation Analytical Laboratory;
Diane Vogt-O'Connor, National Park Service; and Stuart Weibel, OCLC.

The cost of the conference is $255 including lunches.  All
participants will also be responsible for all their travel and
lodging costs.  The number of participants is limited and
registration applications will be accepted on a
first-come-first-served basis.

For more information or to request a flier with a registration form,
contact Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100
Brickstone Square, Andover, MA  01810-1494; 508-470-1010;
<tracy<-a t->nedcc< . >org>.

Gay S. Tracy
Public Relations Coordinator
Northeast Document Conservation Center
100 Brickstone Square
Andover  MA  01810-1494
978-470-1010
Fax: 978-475-6021

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