Volume 24, Number 6
Apr 2001

Editor's Page

A Thank-You to Supporters

The editor and trustees of Abbey Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, are grateful for the support listed below, as well as for numerous smaller amounts.

Donations received in 2000 were listed in the February issue. So far during the year 2001, we have received $2,150, not counting the paychecks I have returned to the corporation (I forget how many this year, but it's not a great hardship).

Ellen McCrady, Editor
April 26, 2001

Sponsors ($500+)

Gary Frost
Library Binding Service
Preservation Technologies, L.P.

Patrons ($100-$499)

Joan T. Batchelor
David Diggs La Touche
Ralph & Christa Ocker
Ocker & Trapp Bindery

Contributors ($25-$99)

Betsy Palmer Eldridge

Corrections & Apologies

The last issue was full of errors, because it was being put into PageMaker by a new employee who did not know as much about the program as I thought he did, and the computer crashed and wiped out the PageMaker program and much of the text we had worked on. We hastily reassembled the issue, and got it to the printer a few days later, but it contained some embarrassing errors.

The issue number was given as #4 instead of #5, with the result that we are now regularly receiving claims for #5 from subscription agents. The issue was full of typos and errors of spacing.

Names were misspelled on p. 79: Salley Buchanan should have been Sally Buchanan, Hilary Kaplan should have had her middle initial, K.; Christina Ocker should have been Christa Ocker.

All things considered, I decided to go back to pasting up the copy with wax, for this time at least. This issue has been put together the old-fashioned, reliable way.

Authors Please Take Note

Authors of articles and other contributions accepted for publication in the Abbey Newsletter will be assumed (unless they notify the editor otherwise) to be granting permission to publish their work in both print and electronic format, and to archive it and make it retrievable electronically. Authors retain copyright, however, and may republish their work in any way they wish.

Similarly with previous publishers of material who have given permission for their copyrighted material to be reprinted in the Abbey Newsletter. The permission will be assumed to cover the electronic as well as the printed form.

This policy has been adopted for two reasons: 1) It helps the cause of library and archive preservation, and 2) existing copyright law considers electronic reprints to be merely extra copies of the original publication, in another format.

Mold Reporter

Vol. 1 # 2, March 2001

Construction Defect Experts Write Homeowner Handbook

News:

• EPA's rapid method of identifying mold
• New antifungal drug approved
• $3 million given to fight mold in Cleveland

Litigation and Legislation

Editor's Page:

• What this field needs
• What you can get from Aerotech Labs

Children's symptoms help assess mold problems

Workshops & classes on IAQ and mold

Feature: Investigator Team's Response to MMWR Report

Research, Advocacy & Good Public Health Measures in Cleveland (a letter to the Cleveland Plain Dealer)

The Practice of Science at the Edge of Knowledge, by Frederick Grinnell (Reprinted from the Chronicle of Higher Education)

~ Subscriptions $25/year from Abbey Publications ~

62 Boxes of Back Issues Have to Go

The garage gradually filled up with back issues of the Abbey Newsletter and Alkaline Paper Advocate, and there would be no room to store anything else if we had not decided to get rid of most of them. Anyone who wants back issues of the Abbey Newsletter from 1975 to 1990 can have them. We are keeping only ten copies for future use. (About ten issues from this period are o.p.) Unwanted copies of issues from this period are now packed in 62 boxes, each 9" x 11-1/2" x 12-1/2".

We will hold them for a few months, and if no one wants them, we will recycle them. If a conservation program or library school wants them for the students, we will send them, provided the recipient pays for shipping.

Publication Schedule for An

Volumes will now begin in June and end in April . This issue (#6, April) is the last one of the year. The schedule looks like this:

The ABBEY NEWSLETTER: PRESERVATION OF LIBRARY & ARCHIVAL MATERIALS (ISSN: 0276-8291) is published six times a year with a separate index by Abbey Publications, Inc., 7105 Geneva Dr., Austin, TX 78723, and has about 1000 subscribers. Application to Mail at Periodicals Postage Rates is pending at Austin, TX 78752. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Abbey Newsletter, 7105 Geneva Drive, Austin, TX 78723.

Personal subscriptions are $35; institutional subscriptions are $65, and subscriptions for students are $20. Overseas air mail is $12/year. Checks and money orders should be made out in U.S. dollars, payable to Abbey Publications. Visa and MasterCard are also accepted.

Job advertisements are billed at the rate of $50 for the heading and the first ten lines, plus $2 per line thereafter. Any notice that is appropriate and newsworthy will be printed if there is room for it.

It is the policy of Abbey Publications to use permanent paper for all publications. Claims for issues never received will be honored within a year of publication.

The Editor's permission must be obtained before making more than 20 copies at a time of lengthy or signed articles. This lets us make any necessary corrections or updates, or contact other copyright holders for permission to reprint. Back issues from 1981 onward are on our Web page at http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey.

Abbey Publications is a nonprofit corporation set up to encourage preservation of written or recorded information, including the use of lasting materials in the creation of records. The corporation has five trustees (E. McCrady, G. Frost, R. Pilette, J. Wellvang, and T. Clareson) and five officers (E. McCrady, Pres.; G. Frost, 1st V.P.; J. Wellvang, 2nd V.P.; and C. Jensen, Treas.).