[PADG:2144] NEDCC POSTS SELF-SURVEY GUIDE ON-LINE

["Juanita Singh" <juanita@xxxxxxxxx>]

For Immediate Release

NEDCC POSTS
SELF-SURVEY GUIDE ON-LINE AT
www.nedcc.org

The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) announces the on-line
availability of its latest publication, Assessing Preservation Needs: A
Self-Survey Guide.  This exciting multi-media project was funded by a
Library Leadership Grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS).  NEDCC also receives major funding for its Field Service Program
from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

            An empowering and important new resource, the purpose of this
guide is to help small to medium-sized institutions with limited
preservation experience and budgets to design a program ensuring that their
historical collections survive in usable condition as long as possible.  In
an effort to make this important information available at no cost to anyone
at anytime, NEDCC has posted the text on its Web site at www.nedcc.org.

            Working in partnership with NEDCC, Amigos Library Services, Inc.
of Dallas Texas, has also produced a 30-minute video entitled: The
Preservation Survey: A First Step in Saving Your Collections which
highlights the themes of this new publication.  Available now through
Amigos, the video vividly illustrates both the dangers to collections and
offers best practices in examining an institution's policies for preserving
its general and special collections materials.   Information about ordering
the video can be found on Amigos' Website, at www.amigos.org.

To order the hardcopy edition of Assessing Preservation Needs: A Self-Survey
Guide, send a check made out to NEDCC for $15.00 to, Juanita Singh,
Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA
01810; The cost includes UPS Ground shipping and handling within the
continental U.S.  Faster shipping is available at cost.  All payments must
be made in U.S. dollars.  Include your name, mailing address, and email
address, or use the order form that is now available at www.nedcc.org.

To find out more about NEDCC's and Amigos' services and programs, visit
their Websites at: www.nedcc.org and www.amigos.org as well as the Regional
Alliance for Preservation's Website at www.rap-arcc.org.