RE: Spanish version of Calipr

[Lydia Preiss <lpreiss@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin,  have you heard of the Calipr preservation assessment softwear
package?  Lydia

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>From: 	Jeanne Drewes[SMTP:jdrewes@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 	Thursday 2 April 1998 5:55AM
>To: 	padg@xxxxxxx
>Subject: 	Spanish version of Calipr
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>March 31, 1998
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>CONTACT: JEANNE DREWES
>(410)516-5486
>jdrewes@xxxxxxx
>http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/library/pres/jeanne.htm
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>Mellon Foundation Supports Preservation Outreach Efforts at 
>The Johns Hopkins Universitys Milton S. Eisenhower Library
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>The Milton S. Eisenhower Library of the Johns Hopkins
>University is pleased to announce an $8,000 grant award from
>the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a Spanish-language
>version of Calipr, a widely used preservation assessment
>software package. To date there is no such assessment tool
>available to Spanish-language institutions.  The Mellon
>Foundation grant is providing the funds needed to remedy
>this. 
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>Calipr is a powerful tool for collecting and analyzing data
>used for estimating the preservation needs of library and
>archival collections.  Understanding collection needs is the
>starting place for development of a comprehensive
>preservation program.   Calipr generates several different
>management reports to provide important insights into the
>needs of collections as a whole and to those parts of
>collections of greatest value and at greatest risk of damage
>and loss.  If preservation programming already is in place,
>Calipr identifies what further work needs to be done to
>address unmet needs.  
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>Calipr was developed in 1989 by the Conservation Department
>at the University of California, Berkeley, and used by the
>California State Library  to conduct a statewide
>preservation needs assessment survey.  In 1997, the U.S.
>Department of Education supported development of a Windows
>version of Calipr (under the provisions of the Library
>Services and Construction Act). 
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>Jeanne Drewes, Preservation Department Head at the MSE
>Library and director of this translation project, will
>demonstrate a work-in-progress form of Spanish Calipr this
>May at "An International Conference on Preservation of Paper
>and Photographs", which will be sponsored by the Northeast
>Document Conservation Center and funded through the
>Commission on Preservation and Access, the American Council
>on Learned Societies, and the Social Studies Research
>Council.  The Spanish-language version will be available in
>several formats including DOS and Windows and will be
>distributed via the Web, and by request via disk.  The
>software will be available for broad distribution in Summer
>1998.
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>For additional information about the Milton S. Eisenhower
>Library, contact M.J. Miller, Associate Director of
>Development, at (410)516-5579. 
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