Volume 21, Number 5
1997

Editor's Page

A Thank-You to Supporters

Starting in January 1998, we are recording donations in a simpler and more efficient way. Instead of publishing the names of people who gave during the previous 12 months, we will record names of donors who gave during the current year.

This means that someone who gives toward the end of the year will only get their name listed once or twice, instead of eight times, but I think it will be more in line with the usual practice of listing donors.

Because our bookkeeper and business manager has been in poor health this past fall, and is busy now with year-end work, donations for January 1998 have not been processed and can not be printed yet. However, we can say that donations for the last six months of 1997 totaled $2215. Donors of that period are listed below as Patrons ($100+), or Contributors ($25+).

Patrons

Joan T. Batchelor
Margaret S. Child
Custom Manufacturing, Inc.
Harlan Greene
Information Conservation Inc.
Mekatronics
Metal Edge, Inc.
Tawny Ryan Nelb
Elaine R. Schlefer
Nancy Carlson Schrock
Richard D. Smith
Duane A. Watson

Contributors

Nelly Balloffet
Bookmakers International Ltd.
Connie Brooks
Mary Jo Davis
Betsy Palmer Eldridge
Mary Todd Glaser
David B. Gracy III
Maria Grandinette
Fred A. Jordan
Murray Lebwohl
Susan Lee-Bechtold
Jeanne Lewisohn
Sandra Nyberg
Bonnie E. Parr
Martha M. Smith
Elizabeth Wendelin
John Wright

What we sell:

1. Current and back issues of the Abbey Newsletter and the Alkaline Paper Advocate. The APA will cease publication after the last two issues of 1997 come out (belatedly, in mid-1998).

Abbey pH Pens^®, for identifying acid-free paper. These are $5.60 per pen for 1-6 pens; less per pen for 7+ pens.

North American Permanent Papers, 1995, and (soon) 1998.

Abbey Online

Updated 1/98

These are the back issues of the Abbey Newsletter and the Alkaline Paper Advocate on our Web page in CoOL (http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey). The list of "Useful Addresses" for 1997 is there too.

An issue is judged to be "complete" when the longer features of each issue (e.g., articles) have been added.

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This policy has been adopted for two reasons: 1) It helps the cause of preservation of library and archive materials, and 2) The recent "Tasini" decision endorses our policy by implication, since existing copyright law considers electronic reprints to be merely extra copies of the original publication, in another format.

The Abbey Newsletter: Preservation of Library & Archival Materials is issued eight times a year and has about 1040 subscribers. All subscriptions are for the calendar year. Checks or international money orders may be made out in U.S. dollars, payable to Abbey Publications; send to 7105 Geneva Dr., Austin, TX 78723, USA. Foreign checks must have the name of a U.S. bank printed on the front. International payments can be made by VISA or MasterCard.

Personal subscriptions are $45; institutional subscriptions are $55, and subscriptions for full-time students and unpaid interns $20. Overseas air mail is $15/year.

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Back issues for the last 6 years are on our Web page in CoOL <http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/>. See table this page.

Abbey Publications is a nonprofit corporation set up to encourage preservation of written or recorded information, including the use of lasting materials in the creation of records. Its other publications are the Alkaline Paper Advocate and North American Permanent Papers. The corporation has five trustees (Ellen McCrady, Gary Frost, Roberta Pilette, James Wellvang, and Thomas Clareson), and five officers (President Ellen McCrady; first vice president Gary Frost; second vice president Jim Wellvang; secretary Tom Clareson; and treasurer Paul Banks).