Volume 20, Number 6
Nov 1996

People

• Toby Murray recently returned from Taiwan, where she participated in a symposium on conservation and preservation sponsored by the Council for Cultural Affairs and the Hwa Kang Museum of the Chinese Culture University. Her Basic Guidelines for Disaster Planning in Oklahoma has been translated into Chinese.
• Anne R. Kenney has been appointed a commissioner of the NHPRC (National Historical Publications and Records Commission), succeeding John Fleckner.
• Fynette Eaton of the Center for Electronic Records of the National Archives and Records Administration received the 1996 Technology Excellence Award from the Interagency Committee on Information Resources Management in June. She was recognized for her role in the design and implementation of the Archival Preservation System (APS), which copies electronic records from government agencies onto certified media for long-term preservation, and captures technical and physical information about them.
• Katherine L. ("K") Walter, Chair of the Serials Department at the University of Nebraska Library in Lincoln, has been appointed as the National Consultant to the AMIGOS Preservation Service Advisory Council. She has developed statewide preservation plans for the states of Kansas and Nebraska, and played a key role in getting a permanent paper law passed in Nebraska.
• Abby Shaw, formerly with Archivart, has taken the position of Director of Marketing for Conservation Resources International, of Springfield, Virginia. Abby will continue to work out of her Philadelphia office: 237 Fitzwater St., Philadelphia, PA 19147 (800/639-8422, fax 215/625-8489).
• Stella Patri was 100 years old on November 2. She was one of a number of Americans, many of them bookbinders, who went to Florence to help with recovery of museum artifacts and rare books when the Arno overflowed in November 1966. She closed her San Francisco bookbindery and retired about ten years ago.
• Thomas O. "Tuck" Taylor, who has been supplying archival grade protective pouches to the preservation field for years through Taylor Made Company, announced his retirement in June in a letter to friends and customers that began, "I realized I was pushing my luck and age when my eldest son announced his retirement earlier in the year. And one of our employees announced his retirement because of increasing arthritis problems." Most of the business will be sold, but he will continue to supply the hobby markets. Institutional orders can be sent to Atlantic Protective Pouches in Tom's River, NJ (908/240-9194).
• Marilyn Kemp Weidner was awarded the University Products award last June for distinguished achievement in the field of conservation. She taught in the Cooperstown program in the early 1970s; in 1977 she founded and directed the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia. Her acceptance speech and a report of the award ceremony is in the AIC News for September 1996.
• Mark Andersson, graduate of the North Bennet Street School bookbinding program, and book conservator at the University of Washington, received a Fulbright Grant for the study of Scandinavian bookbinding and conservation. He is currently studying in the conservation lab at Uppsala University with Per Cullhed and will return to Seattle next July.
• Fred Glazier, State Librarian of West Virginia, is the person who arranged for UNESCO's RAMP documents to be made available in the United States a few years ago. He was fired April 22 on short notice and without explanation by the West Virginia Library Commission. His accomplishments over the last 24 years in office are reviewed and statements of support are published in the June/July American Libraries, p. 19 and 21. Glazer filed suit July 24 in Kanawha County Circuit Court to challenge his dismissal. Details in the September American Libraries, p. 17.
• Eileen Usovicz, formerly operations manager with MAPS (Mid-Atlantic Preservation Service), has opened a preservation microfilming consultancy in Kansas City: CBR Consulting Services, Inc., which offers consulting, workshops, training and exposure testing tools. Her telephone number is 816/444-8246, and e-mail is LeeMAPS1@aol.com.