Volume 9, Number 7
Dec 1985

People

• Connie Brooks, Associate in Library Services (Conservation) for the Division of Library Development in the New York State Library, is the one who will be coordinating the New York State Conservation/Preservation Program that was described on the front page of the September issue of this Newsletter. (For correction and background, see "Corrections" on the Editor's Page.) Her address is: Conservation/Preservation Program, Division of Library Development, New York State Library, 10-C-SO Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY 12230 (518/474-6971).
• Bruce Plumley arrived inn September from Andover, England (near London) to work as journeyman bookbinder for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia. He will be responsible for training of apprentices inn the shop and developing a restoration program.
• Babette and Daniel Gehnrich, both of whom recently completed binding apprenticeships in Germany, are now working at the Thistle Bindery in Northampton, Massachusetts with David Bourbeau.
• Robert Strauss has left the University of Minnesota, where he was manager of the University Bindery, to join the staff of Library Binding Service. He will be heading a new division of L.B.S. that will develop and market a number of archival products and services designed for use by conservators, librarians, binders and others involved in the care of paper-based materials. His new address is: L.B.S./Archival Products, 2134 East Grand Avenue, P.O. Box 1413, Des Moines, IA 50305 (515/262-3191, or 1-800/247-5323).
• Pamela Fae Cole is currently in an internship in the Conservation Laboratory at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
• Michèle Hyacinthe and Stéphan Ipert travelled around the United States last summer, visiting bookbinding shops and conservation labs in libraries, museums and conservation organizations. They were very impressed by the quality of the work they saw and gratified by the welcome they received. They would like to thank all of their hosts for this experience. They go on to say that they now teach book and paper conservation inn a Parisian school of bookbinding. Mr. Ipert is at 3, rue Gustave Flaubert, 69250 Neuville sur Saône, France.