[Preservenw] Banks/Harris Preservation Award to Barclay Ogden

[Gary Menges]

Barclay has been a leader on many preservation initiatives that have had a 
positive impact for those of us in the Pacific Northwest, including most 
recently the Western States and Territories Preservation Assistance 
Service (WESTPAS). He deserves our congratulations!  Gary

Banks/Harris Preservation Award to Barclay Ogden

Barclay W. Ogden, Head of the Preservation Department at the University of 
California Berkeley Library, is the recipient of the 2009 Paul Banks and 
Carolyn Harris Preservation Award. The award, consisting of $1,500 and a 
citation, sponsored by Preservation Technologies, L. P., recognizes the 
contribution of a professional preservation specialist who has been active in 
the field of preservation and/or conservation for library and/or archival 
materials.

For decades, Ogden has contributed locally, nationally, and internationally to 
the promotion of a wide range of library preservation issues from library 
binding to digitization, from disaster preparedness to collection assessment 
and identifying preservation priorities. He has led and advised on numerous 
grant projects ranging from preservation microfilming projects to investigating 
accelerated aging techniques for polyvinyl acetate adhesive in binding.

One of his major contributions to the field of preservation has been in 
disaster planning and assistance. The National Endowment for the Humanities 
recognized the California Preservation Program as a model that could be adapted 
readily to regional disaster planning. To respond to this challenge, Barclay 
co-created the Western States and Territories Preservation Assistance Service 
(WESTPAS) (http://westpas.org/). The service recruits preservation experts 
throughout the area to serve as trainers and consultants. Thanks to Ogden's 
leadership and vision, much-needed emergency response training is available in 
14 Western states and Pacific territories.

Another major accomplishment that should be lauded is Ogden's work in the 
development of CALIPR (http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/CALIPR/introduction.html). 
Developed in 1991, CALIPR was one of the first automated preservation 
collection assessment tools for print-based collections and has been used for 
years by libraries worldwide. Recently, he initiated the adaptation of CALIPR 
for use in assessing vast collections of audiovisual materials.
The Banks/ Harris Preservation Award honors the memories of Paul Banks and 
Carolyn Harris, early leaders in library preservation, and teachers and mentors 
for many in the field of preservation and conservation.

The Banks/Harris Award is given each year by the Preservation and Reformatting 
Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services a 
division of the American Library Association.


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Tara D. Kennedy
Preservation Field Services Librarian
Preservation Department
Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
130 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 432-4335 (Voice)
(203) 432-9900 (FAX)
tara.d.kennedy at yale.edu<mailto:tara.d.kennedy at yale.edu>
"let me help you help your library!"