Volume 11, Number 5
Jul 1987

Editor's Page

Corrections

• Murray Millar does not work for the Australian National Archives any more, as stated on p. 85 of the December 1986 issue. He changed jobs in 1984, and now works for the Australian War Memorial, GPO Box 345, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601.
• The Mid-Atlantic Preservation Service (MAPS) had already moved from the address given for it in the April issue by the time the news item was written. Now it is at another address, which is also temporary:

Lehigh University Mountaintop Campus
111 Research Drive, Room C-38
Bethlehem, PA 18018
(215) 694-1293

• Lehigh University is working hard at preparing a permanent operating space for them by the fall of this year.
  (MAPS is a cooperative microfilming facility, doing work to archival standards.)
• Also on the front page of the April issue is the statement that the $1 million Philip Morris Companies gave to the New York Public Library for the dusting project was a record for preservation grants from the private sector. That is not accurate: what about the $1.2 million that Exxon gave to the Council on Library Resources to set up MAPS? (This was originally reported on p. 68 of the October 1984 issue, where the amount was mysteriously reported as $1.5 million.)

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