Spanish version of Calipr

[Jeanne Drewes <jdrewes@xxxxxxx>]

March 31, 1998
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: JEANNE DREWES
(410)516-5486
jdrewes@xxxxxxx
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/library/pres/jeanne.htm




Mellon Foundation Supports Preservation Outreach Efforts at 
The Johns Hopkins Universitys Milton S. Eisenhower Library

The Milton S. Eisenhower Library of the Johns Hopkins
University is pleased to announce an $8,000 grant award from
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a Spanish-language
version of Calipr, a widely used preservation assessment
software package. To date there is no such assessment tool
available to Spanish-language institutions.  The Mellon
Foundation grant is providing the funds needed to remedy
this. 

Calipr is a powerful tool for collecting and analyzing data
used for estimating the preservation needs of library and
archival collections.  Understanding collection needs is the
starting place for development of a comprehensive
preservation program.   Calipr generates several different
management reports to provide important insights into the
needs of collections as a whole and to those parts of
collections of greatest value and at greatest risk of damage
and loss.  If preservation programming already is in place,
Calipr identifies what further work needs to be done to
address unmet needs.  

Calipr was developed in 1989 by the Conservation Department
at the University of California, Berkeley, and used by the
California State Library  to conduct a statewide
preservation needs assessment survey.  In 1997, the U.S.
Department of Education supported development of a Windows
version of Calipr (under the provisions of the Library
Services and Construction Act). 

Jeanne Drewes, Preservation Department Head at the MSE
Library and director of this translation project, will
demonstrate a work-in-progress form of Spanish Calipr this
May at "An International Conference on Preservation of Paper
and Photographs", which will be sponsored by the Northeast
Document Conservation Center and funded through the
Commission on Preservation and Access, the American Council
on Learned Societies, and the Social Studies Research
Council.  The Spanish-language version will be available in
several formats including DOS and Windows and will be
distributed via the Web, and by request via disk.  The
software will be available for broad distribution in Summer
1998.



For additional information about the Milton S. Eisenhower
Library, contact M.J. Miller, Associate Director of
Development, at (410)516-5579.