Volume 5, Number 2
Apr 1981

Editor's Page

Corrections

• Heinke Pensky-Adam's appointment was not as head of the restoration department at Monastery Will Bindery in Chicago, as stated in the January issue, but as head of Studio LaRiviere, a private rare book and flat paper conservation laboratory in the Monastery Will Bindery.
• A National Preservation Program: Proceedings of the Planning Conference, a publication announced on p. 14 in the January issue, does include the working papers of the individuals who attended the conference. However, Frazer Poole's working paper for the conference as a whole, which was used as an agenda and discussion guide (referred to on p. 15-16 of the Proceedings) was omitted. It can be found on p. 444-449 of Library Conservation: Preservation in Perspective. John P. Baker and Marguerite C. Soroka, eds. Hutchinson & Ross, P0 Box 699, Stroudsburg, PA 18360. 459 pp. $45.
• In Lawrence McCrank's January article, "SAA Conservation Concerns," NEH was reported as having awarded $220,000 to the Society of American Archivists for their series of basic workshops. This figure was too high. The exact amount was $157,926, according to Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler, Director of the program.

Apology

An apology to Wei T'o is in order for the ambiguity created in the "Polyword Prize" note about a long noun phrase in the September issue, and in the correction regarding the air sampler that followed it. No criticism of Wei T'o or the grammatical correctness of the phrase was intended, in the note or the correction.

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