[PADG:1766] Marshall U Lab

["Patricia P. Selinger" <pepalmer@xxxxxxx>]

This was on Library Journal Academic Newswire this morning.
Pause to Celebrate!


MARSHALL U. LIBRARY TO START WEST VIRGINIA'S FIRST
PRESERVATION LAB
Thanks to a combination of grants and a tax on hotels and
motels, The Marshall University Library, Huntington, WV,
will soon have what no one in the state can claim: a
preservation lab. Officials at Marshall say the lab could
be used to preserve historical documents, photos, books and
other artifacts belonging to the library. The lab came a
step closer to reality recently after a Cabell County
Commission moved to give the libraries additional funds to
for training, which will be combined with existing grants
to send Marshall's special collections librarian Kathleen
Bledsoe to Rutgers University for training sessions. "There
is no preservation lab in the whole state of West
Virginia," Marshall dean of libraries Barbara Winters told
the ASSOCIATED PRESS. "It's not just Marshall University
that needs this kind of advice," Winters said, "We want to
be a resource for the whole community about how to preserve
artifacts of various types."