Volume 9, Number 6
Nov 1985

People

• Doris Hamburg is the new Head of the Paper Conservation Section at the Library of Congress.
• Robert Futernick is a new fellow of the AIC.
• Laura Wait has moved from Denver to Santa Fe, where she will be working in book conservation, fine binding and box-making. Her new address is: Prins-Wait Studios, 1570 Pacheco St., Unit E-13, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505/983-2528). Her husband, Steven Prins, is a paintings conservator.
• Jane S. Withee has been appointed Preservation Librarian for Morris Library at Southern Illinois University at Carbon-dale.
• Christine Young is now paper conservator at the William-Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. She was formerly with the Indianapolis Historical Society.
• Jean Tarascio returned to the Marriott Library Conservation Lab at the University of Utah in September after a year's internship at the Library of Congress.
• Poul A. Christiansen, who founded Restaurator nine years ago, has turned over the office of Editor-in-Chief to Dr. Helmut Bansa, Institute of Restoration of Books and Manuscripts, Bavarian State Library, P.O. Box 150, D-8000 Munich 34, FR Germany.
• Helene M. Donnelly of Camberwell School of Art & Crafts has been appointed Research Officer for a study of disaster preparedness of archives and libraries in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. the study is funded by the British Library.
• Sally Buchanan resigned in late August from her position as Conservation Officer at Stanford University Libraries. She will be dividing her tine in the immediate future between teaching a course on conservation at the University of California library school (Berkeley), doing consulting, and working on a book.
• Cheryl Holland has been named Conservation Librarian for the Washington University (St. Louis) Libraries, where she will be establishing a program. She received her training in preservation at Columbia University and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
• Robert Milevski completed his Preservation Administration internship at LC in October and is now an intern in the Conservation Laboratory at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
• Marsha Hollingsworth, hand bookbinder of Port Townsend, Washington, is taking a leave of absence from her binding business.
• Patricia Palmer, who has worked at the Humanities Research Center in Austin for the last four years, will be the Society of American Archivists' new Conservation Program Officer.
• Ann Swartzell has been appointed to the position of Associate Librarian (Conservation) at the New York State Library. She will be administering the statewide preservation program described on the front page of the last issue of this Newsletter. She assumed her new duties in September, following completion of her Mellon Foundation internship at Yale and, prior to that, her work as Coordinator of preservation microfilming at Harvard.
• Jan Sobota has moved to 18915 Arrowhead Ave., Cleveland OH 44119.
• Ann Carroll Kearney has taken the position of Associate Conservator at Case Western Reserve University Libraries. She is a graduate of Cleveland Institute of Art and a former Fulbright scholar in bookbinding at Camberwell.