[PADG:1830] NEDCC Aids In Prague Flood Recovery

["Jamie Doyle" <jdoyle@xxxxxxxxx>]

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        The Northeast Document Conservation Center 
(NEDCC), in Andover Massachusetts (USA), announces that in November, its 
director of Book Conservation, Deborah Wender, will visit the Municipal Library 
of Prague to advise on salvage of flood-damaged books.<SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">  Ms. Wender was invited by the office of 
the President of the Czech Republic, which received a grant from the U.S. 
Embassy.  The Getty Conservation 
Institute, in Los Angeles, is also providing support for the 
project.
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size=3>The floods of August 2002 have endangered many of the Czech Republic&#8217;s 
important cultural collections.  The 
Municipal Library, which houses a prestigious collection of rare books, 
including the Bible of Prague, a 1488 imprint, suffered extensive damage to its 
collections.  The wet books have 
been frozen, and Ms. Wender will help the Library&#8217;s staff organize procedures 
for drying them safely.  During her 
visit, Ms. Wender will also visit the Klementinum Library and other institutions 
whose collections were damaged in the recent disaster.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">NEDCC, a non-profit regional 
conservation facility, has engaged in many exchange programs with Eastern and 
Central European conservators over the last eight years.<SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">  Through its field service office, it has 
had extensive experience in providing disaster assistance to institutions in the 
Northeast.  NEDCC provides 
conservation and reformatting services to libraries and historical organizations 
as well as consultation and training to improve collections care 
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> For information about NEDCC, check out <A 
href="http://www.nedcc.org/";>www.nedcc.org, email <A 
href="mailto:nedcc@xxxxxxxxx";>nedcc@xxxxxxxxx, or call (978) 
470-1010.