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Registrations are being accepted for the Northeast Document Conservation Center’s (NEDCC) Fall 2009 Preservation Workshop Series.
DIGITIZATION BASICS - Tuesday, September 29
DIGITIZING VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS AND NEGATIVES - Wednesday, September 30
AUDIO PRESERVATION AND REFORMATTING - Thursday, October 1
BASIC BOOK REPAIR - Tuesday, October 6
CUSTOM PROTECTIVE ENCLOSURES - Wednesday, October 7
INTERMEDIATE BOOK REPAIR - Thursday, October 8
LOCATION: NEDCC, […]

The Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI, was awarded $99,450 for the project “Graphics Division Inventory.” For the project, the Rhode Island Historical Society will inventory, survey, and create collection-level cataloging records for the audiovisual materials in the Society’s Graphics Division. The Society pledged a matching amount of $103,977. Under the Museums for […]

Managing Preservation is a semester-equivalent course, running from October 2009 to September 2010, that provides information on issues and technologies needed to design, implement, and manage an effective preservation program for documents, books, photographs, and other paper-based materials, as well as digital collections. 
Managing Preservation guides the student through a full preservation assessment of their institution […]

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting grant applications to the agency’s FY 2010 Conservation Project Support (CPS) program. Application guidelines are available on the IMLS Web site.
The application deadline is October 1, 2009.
More information about the program.

2010 guidelines for American Heritage Preservation Program
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Bank of America Charitable Foundation are pleased to announce the 2010 guidelines for the American Heritage Preservation Program. This public-private partnership will fund the preservation of endangered and fragile art works, rare books, scientific specimens, […]

Congratulations to the four most recent RI organizations to be awarded Connecting to Collections Bookshelves. The Bookshelf comprises resources for collections typically found in art or history museums and in libraries’ special collections, with an added selection of texts for living collections. It is a component of Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action, a […]

Last Chance to Apply for Connecting to Collections Bookshelf from Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and American Association of State and Local History
Deadline: March 9, 2009
IMLS is offering a third round of competition to distribute an additional 1000 Bookshelves, a core set of books, DVDs, online resources, and an annotated bibliography that are […]

National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants
(Deadline May 14, 2009)
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions help small and mid-sized institutions, such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. Awards of up to $6000 support preservation related […]

The Digital Commonwealth 3rd Annual Conference will be held on March 31st at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. Register by February 28th to get the best price. Please register early. We had to close registration early for our last annual conference because site capacity was reached. Onsite registration will not be available.
The […]

THE NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER (NEDCC) is pleased to present its Spring 2009 series of one-day preservation workshops:
Preservation of Scrapbooks Tuesday, March 24
Basic Paper Repair Wednesday, March 25
Preparing Collection Materials for Exhibition Thursday, March 26
Identification and Care of Photographs Tuesday, March 31
Selection for Digitization Wednesday, April 1
Digitizing Vintage Photographs and Negatives Thursday, April 2
LOCATION […]