Volume 19, Number 5
Nov 1995

People

• Charles Gruchy, former Director General of the CCI, took on a new job in July as Director General of the Heritage Branch in the Cultural Development and Heritage Sector of the Department of Canadian Heritage. Bill Peters, Director General of the Heritage Branch since 1992, in turn took Mr. Gruchy's place as Director General at the Canadian Conservation Institute.
• Graeme Scott, of the Australian Museum, has been studying mold growth by simulating tropical conditions and the rates at which organic materials reach equilibrium with their environment.
• Harry Campbell (ICI) and Abbey Shaw (Archivart) have joined NISO standards committee SS, which is defining the types of information to be included in ads for products used in the conservation and repair of library materials.
• John Boral's new Email address is: b2bdirect@aol.com, and his phone/fax number is 413/562-2587. B2B Direct is a company located in western Massachusetts that specializes in helping vendors understand and market to the preservation and conservation field. Presently the company is managing the Gaylord Bros. preservation product line.
• Ross Harvey, author of Preservation in Libraries: A Reader and Preservation in Libraries: Principles, Strategies and Practices for Librarians (Bowker/Saur, 1993) is now a senior lecturer at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His email address is asdouglas@ntuvax.ntu.ac.ag.
• Steven D. Smith began work September 15 as an AMIGOS Preservation Service Field Services Officer. He will develop and teach preservation training courses, perform site surveys and preservation management consultations, provide basic preservation information, and work with regional and national preservation organizations. He has a master's degree from the University of Texas library school, having specialized in Preservation Administration.
• Peter Waters retired in November from the Library of Congress after 25 years as the Conservation Officer there.
• Kathy Orlenko, a graduate of the Columbia University conservation program, began working on October 16, 1995, as Conservator for the West Coast region in the NARA Regional Preservation Program. She is at the San Bruno facility (tel. 415/876-9246, Email kathy.orlenko@sanbruno.nara.gov).
• Sharla Richards and Christine Wiseman both started work as preservation field service officers at SOLINET October 23. They will provide workshops, consulting and information referral services to SOLINET members (in southeastern U.S.), including maintenance and repair of materials, disaster preparedness and disaster recovery. Both are recent graduates of the University of Texas with MLIS Specializations in Preservation Administration. Christine Wiseman's e-mail address is christine_wiseman@solinet.net.
• Trudy Huskamp Peterson, who served for over two years as acting Archivist of the United States, has been named Executive Director of the Open Society Archives (founded in 1995 by George Soros) in Budapest, Hungary. Her e-mail address is peterson@ceu.hu. The archives of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty are the core of the current holdings.