Volume 15, Number 7
Nov 1991

Editor's Page

A Thank-You to Supporters

The editor and trustees of Abbey Publications, Inc., want to express appreciation for support received from the people and organizations listed below. So far this year $4571 has been received.

AU donations are considered as going to Abbey Publications (thus contributing to both the Abbey Newsletter and the Alkaline Paper Advocate). Donors are classified as Benefactors ($1000+), Sponsors ($500+), Patrons ($ 1 00+), and Contributors ($25+).

Benefactors: Goldsmith-Perry Philanthropies. Sponsors: Cross Pointe Paper Corp., Bark Frameworks, and Information Conservation, Inc. Patrons: Ralph F. Ocker, LBS/Archival Products, Heckman Bindery Inc., The New York Community Trust (James Talcott Fund), Lester E. Winick, Elaine R. Schlefer, Bridgeport National Bindery, Inc., Susan G. Swartzburg, Robert W. Frase, Joan T. Batchelor, The Heckman Bindery, Inc., Ocker & Trapp Library Bindery, and two anonymous patrons. Contributors: James Wellvang, Robert L. Feller, Richard Frieder, Eric C. Shoaf, Doris C. Freitag, Gerald Lundeen, Timothy D. Barrett, Taylor Made Co., Carolyn Jane Gammon, and two anonymous contributors.

Corrections

• In the report of the IFLA/ICA seminar on research, p.76 in the September issue, the temperature at which the Sterilair device cooks the spores was given as 37° C, but of course this is not hot enough to cook anything; it is really 350° C.

• In the September issue's Events section, the year of the Meister der Einbandkunst exhibition at the Bridwell Library is wrong. It should be Oct. 2 to Dec. 19, 1992.

• In the October issue, p. 90, under "Electronic Records," a parenthetical remark intended to tell what MAPS did was off base. MAPS was not set up by the Commission on Preservation and Access. It was set up with $1 million from the Exxon Foundation, obtained through the Council on Library Resources and a consortium of mid-Atlantic libraries. As Lee Jones explained in a letter October 8, that planning grant also resulted in production of the film Slow Fires and the establishment of the Commission.
  But MAPS was set up as a preservation microfilming facility--that much was right. It is not a maps treatment center. To be exact, it was set up to demonstrate the application of high productivity methods to the reformatting of embrittled materials.

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