September 2010  443 C&RL News

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

Saving wet books
Heritage Preservation (HP) has mounted 
four videos about simple book salvage 
techniques designed for a general audience. 
The videos run less than 30 seconds each 
and demonstrate how to rinse dirty books, 
dry damp books, dry wet books, and freeze 
books to gain time. 

HP also offers five general tips: 1) pri-
oritize to save what cannot be replaced 
first, 2) don’t delay as the goal is to prevent 
mold growth, 3) handle with care because 
wet materials are fragile, 4) work patiently 
because air drying is slow but sure, and 5) 
call in a pro for very valuable or fragile items.

The videos and simple tips are available 
at www.heritagepreservation.org/savewet-
books/index.html.

Sustainable environments
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) will 
present the two-day workshop “Sustainable 
Preservation Practices for Managing Storage 
Environments” five times between October 
2010 and April 2011. 

The workshop, supported by the National 
Endowment for the Humanities, is designed 
to help staff provide safe environments for 
the cultural objects in their care while reduc-
ing energy consumption and costs. 

The first workshop will be held Sep-
tember 16–17, 2010, at the University of 
Texas-Austin; the second October 28–29, 
2010, at Yale University in New Haven, 
Connecticut; the third December 6–7, 2010, 
at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. 
Paul, Minnesota; the fourth February 10–11, 
2011, at the Georgia Archives and Capitol 
Museum in Morrow, Georgia; and the fifth 
in March or April 2011 at the University of 
California-Los Angeles. Each workshop will 
be followed by a Webinar approximately 

three months later. Speakers include James 
Reilly of IPI and Peter Herzog of Herzog/
Wheeler and Associates.

The workshop is free of charge, but 
participants must pay travel expenses. For 
more information, go to www.ipisustain-
ability.org.

Storage strategies
The Conservation Center for Art & Historic 
Artifacts (CCAHA) is offering a two-day 
workshop, “A Space Odyssey: Storage Strate-
gies of Cultural Collections,” October 12–13, 
2010, in St. Paul, Minnesota. 

The workshop will cover the essentials 
of collections storage in institutions of all 
sizes, including allocating resources and 
funds, space planning, environmental con-
siderations, understanding HVAC systems, 
selecting off-site storage, retrofitting less 
than ideal spaces, visible storage, and mov-
ing collections.

The workshop costs $225 for CCAHA and 
Midwest Art Conservation Center members 
and $250 for nonmembers. The registration 
deadline is September 28. For more informa-
tion and to register, go to www.ccaha.org 
/education/program-calendar.

Preserving digital television
The National Digital Information and Infra-
structure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) at 
the Library of Congress has mounted the 
final report of Preserving Digital Public Tele-
vision (PDPTV). The seven-year program 
made significant progress in understanding 
technical and organizational issues and 
reaching out to the PTV community. The 
Corporation for Public Broadcasting has 
created the American Archive, which will 
work to provide long-term preservation of 
and access to U.S. public radio and televi-
sion programming.

For a copy of the final PDPTV report and 
for more information, go to www.thirteen.
org/ptvdigitalarchive/. 

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