Volume 14, Number 6
Oct 1990

People

• Olivia Primanis, formerly in private practice in Los Angeles, has been appointed Head of the Book Conservation Department at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin.
• Susan Sayre Batton has resigned her position as Head of Treatments at the Princeton University Library. In September she began a special project working on Tibetan tankas in the paper conservation department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• Walter Newman has been appointed Senior Conservator for art on paper at NEDCC, where he also worked from 1982 to 1986. Since 1986 he has been at the Boston Public Library.
• Libby Pollard has joined SOLINET as Field Service Officer in the network's Preservation Program, filling the position formerly held by Sandra Nyberg, who was recently promoted to manage SOLINET's Preservation Microfilm Service.
• Carol Pratt has moved from North Carolina to Eugene, Oregon.
• Henk J. Porck has been appointed curator of the paper-historical collection in the department of Special Collections of the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague. As a halftime curator, Dr. Porck will also continue his work as a paper conservation scientist at the Library.
• Charlie Costain and Catherine Miles were married on August 4, 1990.
• Charlotte Newton and Scott Williams were married on 1990.
• Susan Dalton, of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation, has been promoted to Director of Preservation and Archival Projects. She will retain the title of Archivist.
• Pamela Barrios and Cathy Bell joined the Conservation Lab at Brigham Young University in September. Pamela comes to BYU from the New York Academy of Medicine and Cathy Bell joined the Lab from the Beinecke Library at Yale University.