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Anne F. Clapp has had to move her recently established studio for the conservation of art and artifacts on paper. The new address is 1-D Robert Lane, Monroe Park Apartments, Wilmington, DE 19807. The mailing address is P.O. Box 1968, Wilmington, DE 19899. Telephone: (302) 658-0828. Call preferably 8-10 a.m. or 4-6 p.m., week days.
Cathy Asher will be in Japan March 27-April 22 on a grant, learning Japanese book mending techniques.
George Kelly, developer of the diethyl zinc process for mass deacidification of books, retired from the Library of Congress January 8.
Ursula Dreibholz will leave the U.S. near the end of March for a job in Yemen, where she will work on early Islamic manuscripts, all on parchment, from the 8th and 9th centuries. The manuscripts, 20,000 or more of them, were discovered recently in the roof of a mosque. Ms. Dreibholz's employer will be the University of Hamburg.