[Preservenw] [RBMS] RBMS/PARS liaison report ALA Annual 2007

[Gary Menges]

FYI Gary

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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:05:28 -0500
From: jennifer hain teper <jhain at uiuc.edu>
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Cc: Danette Pachtner <danette_pachtner at notes.duke.edu>
Subject: [RBMS] RBMS/PARS liaison report ALA Annual 2007

RBMS/PARS liaison report

There is much to report going on in the Preservation and Reformatting
Section of ALCTS.  Of particular note are the following items:

1) Fire Testing for HD Storage: Members of PARS reported on a project,
led by Yale University library and supported by multiple university
library partners and FM Global Insurance Company, to update the current
fire protection standards used in designing fire suppression systems in
high-density library storage.  Current standards are for warehouse
shelving which are predicted to not burn in the manner as library
materials shelved in HD fashion.  A timeline for an actual burn test
from which new standards will be derived is going to be set this fall.

2) ILL Policy Updates: An updated ALA interlibrary loan code, will now
include a statement that advises against the use of any pressure
sensitive materials on borrowed or loaned materials.

3) LoC Testing and Research Updates: There is a great deal of research
and testing going on in the Library of Congress at present, but a few
that relate directly to special collections include a) research into
argon display environments for extremely fragile materials; b) testing
on the stability and aging of treatment methods, solvents and housing
materials for photographic materials; c) testing on aging
characteristics of CD/DVD storage media; d) Digitial imaging and sound
recreation via laser beam of grooved sound recordings (called IRENE),
can even scan broken phonographic discs and soon wax cylinders as well.
more information can be found at http://www.loc.gov/preserv/rt/ and
http://irene.lbl.gov/

4) Audio/Visual and Digital Preservation: Two PARS programs held at ALA
Annual 07 focused on audio-visual or digital preservation and were both
highly attended, they were: Saving Sound III: Audio Digitization and
Preservation, //the last of a three part program on //identifying
endangered recordings and planning for the preservation of audio
collections, sponsored by the Safe Sound Archive was held Sunday
afternoon; Digital Asset Management: Implications for Preservation was
held on Saturday afternoon to a standing-room-only crowd.

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Jennifer Hain Teper
Conservation Librarian
809 South Oak Street, 2nd Floor
Champaign, IL 61820
(217)244-5689
fax (217) 333-2630
jhain at uiuc.edu