Mary Ballard's thoughts on AATA coverage of textile related subjects

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    Concerning Mary Ballard's thoughts on 
the coverage of textile related material in 
AATA, as an AATA abstractor for more than 
15 years, I have some insights into the 
way  AATA operates. 
    Perhaps distlist participants don't know 
or have forgotten that  AATA depends on volunteers
to produce almost all of its abstracts. If no one
makes the commitment to read and abstract
each issue of a particular journal, abstracts of
articles from that journal may never find their 
way into AATA. Many of the journals which are of 
interest to textile conservators such as practical trade
journals in fields like dry cleaning are of  low priority
to AATA. There are many high priority newsletters
(like the ICOM Committee on Conservation Working
Group newsletters) which are not included in AATA
on a regular basis because they have no definite
abstractors.
   If the members of the textile conservation community
are serious about having complete AATA coverage of the 
literature they find of interest, each of them must make
the commitment to abstract one or more of these
periodicals.
      Rebecca Rushfield   
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