Have you registered yet? The theme of MLC’s Preservation Conference, “Who Are You Going to Call? Library-Vendor Partnerships in Preservation Projects,” is libraries working with preservation/conservation vendors on physical preservation projects.

On June 5, the second day of MLC’s two-day Preservation Conference, Jennie Thomas, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, will discuss her library’s vendor collaboration to assess preservation at Albion College.  Through a Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the assessment was completed by the Northeast Document Conservation Center in March of 2009. Jennie will discuss writing the NEH grant, the NEDCC assessment process, the recommendations that were made in the final report, and the impact on the College’s planning process for library renovation.

Also on June 5, Ann Olszewski, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, will address “Extending the Preservation Team at the Cleveland Public Library.” Preserving rare books and unique sound recordings in the Cleveland Public Library collection has required finding specialized vendors and conservators to treat these collections.   Ann will talk about working with a range of vendors, including the Northeast Document Conservation Center for rare books and photographs, the HF Group Indiana conservation department for special boxes, facsimiles, and digicover bindings for non-Roman language books, the Intermuseum Conservation Association for art and works on paper, OCLC Preservation service center for microfilm, and Safe Sound Archive for audio to digital conversion.

For detailed information on other speakers at the two-day Preservation Conference, and to register online, please see MLC’s Workshop Registration page: https://members.mlcnet.org/workshops/viewcourse.html?id=197

For further information and for assistance with registration, please contact Heather Thomas (thomash@mlcnet.org or 800-530-9019 x133).