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Jane Hedberg P r e s e r v a t i o n  N e w s  

NARA conference 
The National Archives and Records Admin­
istration (NARA) 19th Annual Preservation 
Conference, “Parchment and Titanium: 
Preserving the Charters of Freedom,” will 
be held September 22, 2005, at the National 
Archives Building in Washington, D.C. The 
conference will describe in detail NARA’s 
multiyear project to preserve and re­encase 
for public display the Declaration of Inde­
pendence, the U.S. Constitution, and the 
Bill of Rights. 

Speakers will report on the history of the 
documents and former preservation encase­
ments, development and testing of the new 
encasements, conservation methods for the 
documents, renovation of the Rotunda, new 
display criteria, special challenges inherent 
in treating such historically important docu­
ments, and what other institutions can learn 
from this project. 

The conference costs $75. For more 
information, contact Richard Schneider, 
Conference Coordinator (NWT), National 
Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, 
Room B­815, College Park, MD 20740­6001; 
phone: (301) 837­3617; e­mail: richard. 
schneider@nara.gov; URL: www.archives. 
gov/preservation/conference­2005.html. Pre­
registration is encouraged. 

ALA publication 
ALA recently published Preservation and 
Conservation for Libraries and Archives by 
Nelly Balloffet and Jenny Hille. It is a 240­
page manual intended for both administra­
tors who make preservation decisions and 
practitioners who do hands­on collections 
conservation. The section about the basics of 
preservation covers environment, education, 
disaster planning and response, and storage. 
The four sections about collections conser­

Jane Hedberg is preservation program offi  cer at Harvard 
University Library, e-mail: jane_hedberg@harvard.edu; 
fax: (617) 496-8344 

vation cover building and furnishing work 
areas, rehousing, enclosures, challenging 
formats (scrapbooks, albums, photographs, 
maps, posters, architectural photo repro­
ductions), paper conservation, and book 
conservation. 

The final section about exhibits covers 
design with conservation in mind, cases, 
preparation of items for exhibit, and removal 
of items at the close of an exhibit. The ap­
pendices contain information about the care 
of photographs, a list of suppliers and library 
binders, sources of help and advice, a glos­
sary, and a bibliography. 

The book costs $112.50 for ALA members 
and $125.00 for nonmembers. It is avail­
able through the ALA online store at www. 
alastore.ala.org/ or book vendors. ISBN: 
0­8389­0879­9. 

IFLA bibliography 
The International Federation of Library 
Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has 
published First, do no harm: A register of 
standards, codes of practice, guidelines rec­
ommendations and similar works relating 
to preservation and conservation in libraries 
and archives. 

Compiled by John McIlwaine on behalf 
of the IFLA Preservation and Conservation 
Section, this 79­page online publication lists 
works that provide guidance and advice 
for preservation professionals. It is divided 
into ten chapters: standards in general, 
dictionaries, preservation and conservation 
in general, education and training, environ­
mental management, security, emergency 
planning/disaster preparedness, preventive 
conservation and storage, preservation 
treatment/restoration and repair, and refor­
matting/creation of surrogates. There is a 
deliberate emphasis on current information, 
so most of the works cited were published 
within the last ten years. 

This bibliography is available as a free PDF 
at www.ifl a.org/VII/s19/index.htm. 

C&RL News July/August 2005  536 

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