Volume 19, Number 8
Dec 1995

Editor's Page

A Thank-You to Supporters

The editor and trustees of Abbey Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, appreciate the support received from the people and organizations listed below, as well as from those who gave smaller amounts.

We consider all donations to be intended for Abbey Publications (thus contributing to the Abbey Newsletter, the Alkaline Paper Advocate and other publications and products of this office).

Donors of the last twelve months are listed below as Benefactors ($1000+), Sponsors ($500+), Patrons ($100+), and Contributors ($25+).

Benefactors

Cross Pointe Paper Corp., Miami Mill
Barbara Lubin Goldsmith Foundation

Sponsors

Gaylord Bros.
Terry O. Norris

Patrons

Acme Bookbinding
Elizabeth S. Banks
Bark Frameworks
Joan T. Batchelor
Benchmark
Brown's River Records Preservation Service
Sally Buchanan
Campbell-Logan Bindery
Custom Manufacturing, Inc.
Paula DeStefano
Disaster Recovery Services
Edwin P. Garretson, Sr.
Kater-Crafts Bookbinders
Metal Edge West
National Institute for Conservation
New York Community Trust - James Talcott Fund
Ocker & Trapp Library Bindery
Restoration Source
Nancy Russell
Elaine R. Schlefer
Nancy Carlson Schrock

Contributors

Tim Barrett
Bookbinders Warehouse
Jane Dalrymple-Hollo
Betsy Palmer Eldridge
Robert L. Feller
Robert Frase
William Fuller
Carolyn Jane Gammon
Mary Todd Glaser
Maria Grandinette
Harlan M. Greene
Patricia B. Grey
Ingrid Rose Co. Ltd.
Fred Jordan
Hilary A. Kaplan
Gerald Lundeen
Jan Merrill-Oldham, in memory of Carolyn Harris
William Minter
Tawny Ryan Nelb
Sandra Nyberg
Brian E. O'Connell
Elissa O'Loughlin
Paper Star Associates
Bonnie Parr
Eleanor Quandt
Jeff Rigby
Ruth-Ann Rohman
Eric C. Shoaf
Martha M. Smith
Norma Spector
James G. Stephens
Mary Ann Tyrrell
University of Iowa Center for the Book, Paper Facility
Utah (state)
Marie-Daniele Zartman

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Corrections and Amplifications-

• The two books on museum environment, one written and the other edited by May Cassar (AN, May 1995, p. 39b), have been hard for readers to find, because our announcement was full of errors and omissions, despite all our efforts. For the first one, Museums Environment Energy, the number of pages was wrong, no U.S. source was mentioned and no mention was made of the fact that HMSO accepts credit card payments. This is properly cited in the Literature section of this issue, where it is approximately the seventh item down.
• For the second one, Environmental Management: Guidelines for Museums and Galleries, the U.S. publisher's name was wrong, and the fax number for the English publisher was wrong. Here is the announcement, with those errors cleaned up:
• Environmental Management: Guidelines for Museums and Galleries, by May Cassar. Routledge and the Museums & Galleries Commission, 1994. Hardback, 208 pp., 16 illus. ISBN 0 415 10559 5. £30 or £35 (sources vary). In the U.S., available from ITT Routledge in New York City for $45 in a cloth binding (there is no paperback edition). Call 1-800-634-7064 (fax 1-800-248-4724). Payment can be made by check or credit card. They handle orders from anywhere in the western hemisphere.
• All Neenah brands of paper for dissertations (in the list on the back page of the last issue) are trademarked and should have carried a little R in a circle after the trade name: ®.
• Canadian readers who want to buy Letraset's "Tria" pens (empty fillable felt-tip markers) can call the number for Letraset Canada, 905/475-7511. These pens, announced in the November issue of AN on p. 85, are good for making a wet line to tear repair tissue along, when doing long-fiber mends.
• In the Events column for the last issue, for "Technology of the Medieval Book IX" July 8-12 and 15-19, the fee is $550 for either week, but $900 for both. The new daytime telephone number is 503/735-3942.