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Stephanie Lamson, Asst. Preservation Librarian, will provide tips on how to preserve your old
letters, photographs, and books.
The following brochures were provided at the talk and are available online:
The University of Washington Libraries is partnering with the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University to preserve local and state agricultural literature. The University of Washington Libraries will lead the effort to preserve Washington State agriculture, forestry and fisheries literature published between 1820 and 1945 in cooperation with Washington State University. Since preservation funds are limited, the first phase of the project will create a bibliography of Washington State materials to be ranked and reviewed by scholars for preservation purposes. In the second phase of the project (not covered by the current grant), 25% of the highest ranked material will be microfilmed. The project is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The following preservation projects have received 2003-2004 Allen Endowment Funding for Preservation awards. Proposals submitted for funding were reviewed by a subcommittee of the Preservation Program Advisory Committee. The Subcommittee made funding recommendations to Betsy Wilson, Director of University Libraries, who approved the awards. For additional information, contact Gary Menges.
South Asia Section - Alan Grosenheider
Materials for the study and teaching of the languages of South Asia will
be deacidified. The South Asia Center is providing matching money.
Government Publications - Hilary Reinert & Cass Hartnett
Buffered envelopes and 4-flap pamphlet enclosures will be purchased to
protect fragile government publications. This is a pilot project to see if
this is a workable solution for protecting these documents.
Health Sciences Library - Colleen Weum
Special Collections - Sandra Kroupa
Boxes will be produced for rare books in the Health Sciences Library and
in Special Collections. Acidic boxes will be replaced and other rare books
boxed.
Music Library - John Gibbs
Cylinder records in the Melvin Harris Wind Instrument Recordings
Collection in the Music Library Listening Center will be removed from
their original containers, cleaned, and reboxed in acid free/lignin free
containers.
East Asia Library - Louise Richards and Keiko Yokota-Carter
Nikkan Hokkai keizai, a Japanese fisheries newspaper, will be microfilmed.
East Asia is the only U.S. library holding this newspaper.
Fisheries-Oceanography Library - Louise Richards
Preservation facsimiles will be produced of selected high use fisheries
titles in poor condition.
Southeast Asia Section - Judith Henchy
Thai Binh, a newspaper published by the Association of Overseas Vietnamese
in America as the voice of the Vietnamese student anti-war movement in the
U.S., will be microfilmed. Four other libraries with incomplete runs
have agreed to lend for filming issues missing in the UW run.
Preservation - Stephanie Lamson
The UW Publications in the Social Sciences will be microfilmed.
Special Collections - John Bolcer
The field notebooks in the Melville Jacobs Collection will be microfilmed
to protect this extensive and unique collection of data on Pacific
Northwest tribal languages and make it more widely available.
Special Collections - Karyl Winn
Open reel sound recordings in two unique collections will be duplicated on
compact discs. The James Newbill Collection of 49 oral history interviews
documents a violent strike in the Yakima Valley orchards in 1933. The
second collection of 144 tapes of panel discussions, speeches, and other
programs in the records of the Seattle Urban League, 1965-1969, provides
documentation of the civil rights movement in Seattle. Migrating the open
reel recordings to a current audio format will make them available for
use.
The Washington State Preservation Initiative, a Federal LSTA-funded initiative, assists libraries of all types and sizes in preserving collections of materials with significant historical or cultural value thereby assuring long-term access to these collections. The Initiative funds preservation workshops that are free to Washington library staff members and a preservation grant program. Both begin in Fall 2003. For more information, see the Washington State Preservation Initiative website hosted by the Washington State Library.