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Iona McCraith
AAO Preservation Consultant
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Managing Preservation: A Series of Five Coordinated Workshops

Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center

            If your institution has had a preservation planning survey and
is ready to take the next step, if it has not yet developed a systematic
preservation program, if it needs to make the current program more
effective, or if you feel the need for additional preservation education,
NEDCC has designed a program just for you.  The cycle of workshops is
designed to provide systematic preservation training to staff of small to
mid-sized museums, historical organizations, archives, libraries, and
records repositories.  As a series, the workshops will provide the
information needed to design, implement, and maintain an effective
preservation program for documents, books, photographs, and other
paper-based materials.

            The program is designed for the full-time professional with
part-time preservation responsibilities.  Institutions may be small to
mid-sized archives, museums, historical organizations, records repositories,
or public, academic, or special libraries with paper-based materials of
enduring value for research.  The series is not designed to address the
specific needs of general circulating collections or large academic research
libraries.

Curriculum and Schedule:

  September 11-13, 2002             Fundamentals of Preservation

  December 11-13, 2002             Collections Maintenance

 March 26-28, 2003                    Emergency Preparedness

 June 5-6, 2003                           Preservation Technologies

September 11-12, 2003             Preservation Administration

            Faculty will include Steve Dalton, NEDCC's Director of Field
Service; Lori Foley, NEDCC's Field Service Representative; Jane Hedberg,
Preservation Program Officer, Harvard University Library; Janet Gertz,
Columbia University; Wes Boomgaarden, Ohio State University Libraries;
Barbara Lilley, New York State Library.

            The cost of the full series is $600.  Each participant is
expected to attend all sessions.  Lunches will be provided.  Transportation,
lodging, and other meals are the responsibility of participants.  Full
payment is required upon notification of acceptance.  All sessions will be
held at NEDCC's facility in Andover, Massachusetts.  If you require
accommodations, a block of rooms has been reserved for each session at the
Andover Inn (978- 475-5903), approximately 2 miles from NEDCC.  Participants
are responsible for their own reservations.

            The Managing Preservation series is limited to twenty
participants selected based on their applications.  Application information
and a more detailed agenda are posted on NEDCC's web site at
<www.nedcc.org>.

                If you have questions, contact Lori Foley,
<[log in to unmask]>, at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100
Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810; 978 470-1010.

The program is made possible by the generous support of
the National Endowment for the Humanities.