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Preservation Web Sites and Email Discussion Lists



Web Sites

Book Arts Links
Peter Verheyen's current and continually updated list of book arts, conservation and collecting/dealer related www sites.

Conservation Department, State Library of Victoria includes information about a wide range of conservation techniques and an enquiry helpline conservation.

Conservation OnLine (CoOL):
This is a collection of full-text databases covering a wide variety of conservation and preservation issues.

Heritage Conservation and Historic Preservation Website contains a range of current information useful to conservators, curators, and anyone else concerned with the care of heritage materials, sites and structures, gathered and edited by the Conservation Department, State Library of Victoria.

EPIC (European Commission on Preservation Access): EPIC is a gateway for information on work directed at the preservation of the documentary heritage in Europe: first of all paper-based materials, but also sound, film, photographs, and digital archives.

Hypatia:
A collection of full-text databases covering a variety of preservation issues using WAIS technology. The login is "hypatia" and the password is "hypatia".

National Center for Preservation Technology & Training (Natchitoches, USA):
NCPT gopher. Searchable.

Natural Disaster Mitigation and Cultural Heritage: A proposal for a professional development course on the World Wide Web / Dirk H.R. Spennemann (Johnstone Centre for Parks, Recreation and Heritage, Charles Sturt University)

National Library of New Zealand Conservation Services Web site provides links to guidelines on the care of sound recordings, art works on paper, archival materials, photographs, books and family collections.

Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Web site: In addition to information about NEDCC, the site includes technical information on preservation, answers to frequently asked questions, information about funding sources for preservation, and NEDCC's calendar of workshops and seminars.

The Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Web site is designed to assist collection managers, creators, publishers, researchers, and all with an interest in ensuring long-term access to important information in digital form. This site contains information about issues associated with preserving access to digital information as well as news items about recent developments and conferences. Users of the site are encouraged to contribute information about their own projects or other news items.

PRESED-X: The Preservation Educators' Exchange:
A WWW site linking documents, information and resources on preservation education maintained by Robert DeCandido. Items can be posted to the exchange by either:

    sending documents to bronxbob@well.com in plain text (ascii) format. They will be coded in HTML format and mounted on the Exchange, or

    having your documents that are already mounted on a web or gopher site linked from the exchange by providing Robert with the appropriate URL.

Preservation Resources (OCLC)
Preservation Resources, a division of OCLC, was founded in 1985 by Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton Universities, the New York Public Library, and the New York State Library, and was originally called the Mid-Atlantic Preservation Service (MAPS). In October 1990, the MAPS Board of Trustees, composed of representatives of MAPS' founding members, voted unanimously to transfer control of MAPS to OCLC. To reflect the transition from a regional to an international base, the name was changed to MAPS The MicrogrAphic Preservation Service. OCLC became the sole member of MAPS, and OCLC executives were appointed to the new board of trustees. On Jan. 1, 1994, MAPS became a division of OCLC and is now known as Preservation Resources.

Preservation Resources is housed in a new, 17,650-square-foot building located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The building is divided into offices; conference rooms; areas for camera workstations, film developing, testing and quality assurance; and a temperature- and humidity-constant storage vault for long-term storage of microfilm masters. The building was dedicated on April 30, 1991.

Preserve/Net
National Council for Preservation Education (USA). Preserve/Net Information Service and Preserve/Net LawService available. The latter is a new service designed to aide lawyers, activists and owners in understanding the law as it relates to preservation. PLS will provide hypertext versions of federal and state legislation, full transcripts of important court cases and analysis of the law from, among others sources, Preservation Law Reporter.

The South-Eastern Library Network (SOLINET) Preservation Services Web site provides information about library preservation as well as links to relevant resources.

The Virtual Past

Western New York Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Manual for Libraries and Archives: The purpose of the Western New York Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Manual for Libraries and Archives is to encourage the development of individual disaster plans in archives and libraries.

See also: Bibliographies


E-mail Discussion Lists

Book_Arts-L: Book_Arts-L is a mailing list based at Syracuse University - subscribers include a good number are practicing bookbinders and book-artists, there are also marblers, papermakers, printers, collectors, curators in libraries, and people just interested in our wide and varied field.

Cons DistList: International moderated online forum. This is open to those professionally involved with the conservation of cultural materials. Archives are available to participants via Conservation OnLine (CoOL).

Collibs: Australian discussion list for collection development librarians, which has invited discussion of preservation projects and issues.

NIAC-L: has been set up by the National Library of Australia to disseminate information and obtain comments on NIAC activities and on the wider range of the Library's national coordination activities. It is an unmoderated list which is also intended to be used to generate discussion and share information on issues relating to national and international collaboration and development of the distributed library infrastructure in a networked electronic environment. It replaces DNC-L. Those wishing to join can subscribe by sending the following message:

Subscribers are also encouraged to post queries, news and messages on NIAC-L by posting to niac-l@nla.gov.au.

PRESED-L: PRESED-L is an unrestricted list which is run by the American Library Association (ALA) for exchanges between anyone with an interest in preservation education.

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