Volume 21, Number 2
Jul 1997

People

• Bruce Dearstyne will join the faculty of the University of Maryland's College of Library and Information Services in fall 1997. Since 1983, he has served as director of Statewide Programs and Services at the New York State Archives and Records Administration. He has also held the position of executive director of the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators since 1983.
• William Saffady will be joining the faculty of the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University, effective September 1, 1997. For the last ten years, he has been professor at the School of Information Science and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany.
• Glen Zimmerman retired from the Library of Congress January 4 after a 26-year career which included service as Associate Librarian of Congress for Management. Temporarily, he is working part time for ARL.
• Vartan Gregorian, President of Brown University for the last eight years, was named President of the Carnegie Corporation, effective next summer.
• George J. Collins, Manager of the Quality Control and Technical Department at the Government Printing Office, died March 23, 1997. As a member of the Joint Committee on Printing's Advisory Council on Paper Specifications, he had worked with Sylvia Subt in the 1990 GPO study to increase the use of permanent papers for the production of records with enduring educational and research value.
• Bob McCarroll, formerly a paper conservator at the Rocky Mountain Conservation Center, has been appointed managing broker at Coldwell Banker Van Schaack in Evergreen, Colorado. Call 303/733-2712 to confirm.
• David Grattan was elected for a three-year term as Chairperson of the International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) at the Edinburgh meeting last September. He is the Manager of Conservation Processes and Materials Research for the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI).
• Paul Evan Peters, a charismatic leader in the development and expanded use of electronically networked information by the scholarly community, died suddenly on November 18 at the age of 48, while walking on a Florida beach. Cause of death was an asthma attack. He was the founding director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). (In the early 1980s, when he was Assistant University Librarian for Systems at Columbia University, he gave an amusing and instructive talk about his job to the preservation students in the library school.) The CNI has set up a memorial Web page (http://www.cni.org/~paul/obitIndex.html), which now has about 152 moving tributes contributed by family, friends and admirers, among them Jeff Rothenberg, Lee Jones and Walt Crawford.
• Evelyn Frangakis is the National Agricultural Library's first preservation officer. She was formerly the head of the Preservation Department at the University of Maryland Libraries and before that was the Society of American Archivists' preservation program director.
• Rosaleen Hill has resigned her position as Conservation Coordinator for the Archives Association of British Columbia. She is now in Australia, teaching paper conservation at the University of Canberra. Megan Cornish has been hired as her replacement in the B.C. Archives Association.
• Paul Banks has been selected as the first research fellow in a new fellows program at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). He will be touring regional archives and all but one of the presidential libraries until the fall of 1998 in connection with his project, "Environmental Control as a Preservation Tool." (See related article in this issue.)
• Karen Pavelka is now teaching conservation treatment at the University of Texas Preservation and Conservation Studies program, a few blocks away from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center where she used to work as paper conservator.
• Nancy Schrock began working half-time at Harvard College Library April 1 as chief collections conservator. She will go to full-time on August 1.
• Millie O'Connell has taken over Nancy's part-time job as "Help Line Conservator" for Gaylord Brothers.
• Ellen McCrady was honored at the last AIC meeting for the support she has given AIC members over the years through the Abbey Newsletter. The calligraphed certificate says, "This is to certify that The Board of Directors of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works, acting on authority granted by the bylaws, have conferred upon Ellen McCrady Honorary Membership in The American Institute of Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works together with all rights pertaining thereto." It was presented by Bill Minter, who spoke at the first meeting of the Book and Paper Group in Toronto in 1979.