Volume 10, Number 1
Feb 1986

Editor's Page

Corrections

• Doug Stone is not the president of the Friends of the Dard Hunter Paper Museum; Howard Clark is. Doug Stone is the editor of the newsletter and coordinator for the meetings. (Mistake is on p. 112, December issue.)
• The address of Norman D. Stevens, the man who wrote "The Man Who Saved Books" (p. 35, April 1985 issue) was omitted in the article. It is the Molesworth Institute, 143 Hanks Hill Rd., Storrs, CT 06268.
• In the survey report in the last issue, the address of Zellerbach Paper Company was inadvertently omitted. The two California addresses which were furnished in the reply are:

  Zellerbach Paper Co.
  245 So. Spruce Ave.
  So. San Francisco, CA 94080

  Zellerbach Paper Co.
  4000 E. Union Pacific Ave.
  Los Angeles, CA 90051

• A reply was received from Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead (31-10 48th Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101 (1-800/572-7200; NY state only, 1-800/582-0400). A/N/W stocks all weights of Ecusta Waylite (the paper this newsletter is printed on) and will ship amounts as small as one carton. They can also furnish other acid-free and buffered papers such as Mohawk Superfine and Howard Permalife.

The Abbey Newsletter: Bookbinding and Conservation is issued six or more times a year and has about 1000 subscribers. New subscribers automatically receive all issues published in the current year, unless they request otherwise. All subscriptions expire on the last day of the year. To initiate or renew a subscription, send name, address, and a check for $30 made out to Abbey Newsletter, c/o Preservation Department, Brigham Young University Library, Provo, UT 84602. The telephone number is 801/378-2512 during the day and 801/373-1598 evenings and weekends. Note: the Newsletter is not part of the University or the Library.

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People

• Sally Buchanan resigned from the Stanford Libraries September 1, 1985 and is for the present teaching a course on conservation in the UC Berkeley School of Library and Information Studies, consulting, and writing a book about disaster planning with Judith Fortson-Jones. She can be reached at 690 Greer Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303. Anyone with new information about disasters or disaster publications is encouraged to get in touch with her or Ms. Fortson-Jones (Conservation, Hoover Institute, Stanford, CA 94305) to assist them with the book for Oryx Press.
• Jane S. Withee has been appointed Preservation Librarian for Morris Library at Southern Illinois University at Carbon-dale.
• Willman Spawn has come out of retirement to accept an appointment as Curator of Bindings at Bryn Mawr College.
• William L. Joyce, previously Assistant Director for Rare Books and Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, has been appointed Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University.
• Hedi Kyle, formerly Head Conservator at the Book Preservation Center of the New York Botanical Garden, became Head of Conservation at the American Philosophical Society in January, 1986.
• Five new interns have been accepted into the Library of Congress Conservation Office for advanced training. They are Jill Norton Sterett, Sarah Bertalan, Kathleen Orlenko, Maria Fredericks, and Scott Husby.
• Robert Milevski has completed a book conservation internship at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is now a preservation consultant in the Washington, DC area, writing articles on preservation topics, conducting book repair workshops, and doing freelance bookbinding and conservation work. His ad-dress is 508 Seventh St., NE, Washington, DC 20002 (202/543-7145).
• Ian Cook, formerly of the National Library of Australia, is the Director of the new State Conservation Centre of South Australia in Adelaide. Jan Lyall is the new Director of Preservation Services at the National Library.
• Bruce Roberts is now in private practice as a book conservator under the name Bruce Robert Levy. He is no longer working under the names "Bruce Roberts" or "Da Vinci Bindery." He is also (since October 1985) the Senior Book Conservator at the HRHRC, Austin, Texas.
• Siegfried Rempel is the Consultant Conservator at the Canadian Center for Architecture.
• Antoinette Dwan has accepted the position of Associate Paper Conservator at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
• Robert Futernick was elected president of the Western Association for Art Conservation in October.
• Gerald Munoff has left the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives to accept a position as Assistant Director for Administrative Services and Personnel at the University of Chicago.
• Gabrielle Fox [author of "University of Cincinnati a Vacudyne," AN July 1982] gave a demonstration of her work as a bookbinder to Prince Charles when he visited Stationers Hall on November 21st to unveil a portrait of Lord Stockton. The Stationers Company is anxious to assist young entrepreneurs and Gabrielle was one of ten craftsmen invited to take part in the exhibition. [From Designer Bookbinders Newsletter, Dec. 1985]
• Philip Smith has moved: his address is now the Book House, Yatton Keynell, Chippenham, Wilts SN14 7BH, England.
• Bill Minter was elected Chairman of the AIC Book and Paper Group in May.
• Jim Druzik, formerly Research Chemist with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been appointed Associate Scientist Research Contracts, at the Getty Conservation Institute in Marina Del Rey. His responsibilities will include monitoring outside projects and research contracts in the U.S. and abroad. He will also be involved with inhouse research projects.
• Lilly Hollander has a new address for her practice of conservation of works of art on paper: Carnegie Hall Studios, 881 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019 (212/757-9247). Her studio is # 1204.