Preservation Issues in Small to Mid-Sized Libraries Discussion Group

The ALA Midwinter meeting for the PARS Preservation Issues in Small
to Mid-Sized Libraries Discussion Group will be held at the San
Diego Marriott Hotel, Room Torrey 1 on Sunday, January 11, 2004 from
8:30-11:00a.m.

Previously, institutions designed conservation laboratories within
existing library space to address the preservation needs of a
library or archive.  Today, many institutions are constructing
conservation laboratories off-campus and often times in association
with remote storage facilities to accommodate growing programs,
state-of-the-art equipment, and to alleviate some of the space
issues within the library.  This discussion group will address the
advantages and disadvantages of designing new conservation
laboratories in tandem with off-site remote storage, existing models
of institutions that have already built new conservation labs, and
what other approaches are being investigated in designing new
conservation facilities.  A moderator will ask a panel representing
various institutions to address several questions and then the
discussion will be opened up to all attendees.

The panel will feature:

    Winston Atkins
    Preservation Officer at Duke University

    Claire Q. Bellanti
    Director of the UC Southern Regional Library Facility and UCLA
    Library Resource Sharing

    Jake Nadal
    Head of the Preservation Department at University of Indiana

    Patricia Smith-Hunt
    Head of Preservation at Ohio University

 Thomas Teper, Head of Preservation at the University of Illinois at
Urbana Champagne.

Moderators:

    Jean Ann Croft
    Preservation Department
    University of Pittsburgh
    Pittsburg, PA 15260
    412-244-7522
    jeanann [at] pitt__edu

    Atalanta Grant-Suttie
    Preservation Department
    University of Maryland
    McKeldin Library
    College Park, MD  20714
    301-405-9328
    ag175 [at] umail__umd__edu


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