Volume 21, Number 5
1997

People

• Elise Thall Calvi began at the University of Maryland in November as Assistant Department Head/Brittle Materials and Reformatting Unit Head.
• Yvonne Carignan became Preservation Department Head at the University of Maryland last summer, after working for three years as acting and assistant department head.
• Ellen Cimini is now the direct mail manager for Oryx Press in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Susan Dalton resigned her position with the American Film Institute June 6 and is now doing archival cataloging and consulting in Iowa. She can be contacted at 319/363-8611 or by e-mail: sdalton@mcleodusa.net. AMIA NL Fa
• Shelly Fletcher, Head of Paper Conservation at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), was awarded the Rome Prize. She is spending six months in Italy studying Andrea Mantegna engravings. (Sep. Wash. Cons.G. NL)
• Gary Frost had a one-man show at the Center for Book Arts in New York last fall (Oct. 23 to Dec. 6): "Explorer of Book Structure & Action." It had four themes: craft, art, library science and the future of hand bookbinding. The exhibit is described and illustrated on the front page of Koobstra, the Center for Book Arts' newsletter, for Fall 1997.
• Fred Glazer, who served as director of the West Virginia Library Commission for 24 years, died December 8 of kidney failure. His many accomplishments are described on p. 36 of the January 1998 American Libraries. One accomplishment, not mentioned in that notice, dealt with preservation: arranging personally for Unesco's PGI (General Information Programme) documents, including the RAMP Studies, to be distributed in the United States by the West Virginia Library Commission. (Unfortunately, Unesco does not send the RAMP Studies to West Virginia very often.) Am Libs Ja98
• Meg Brown is the collections conservator at the University of Kansas; Ethel Hellman is the University of Maryland's first professional conservator; and Whitney Pape is the special collections librarian and preservation officer at Oberlin College in Ohio. All three are grads of PCS at the University of Texas.
• Murray Lebwohl has retired from paper conservation and will be selling all equipment and supplies, including a large quantity of genuine new pith paper (3" wide and up to 30" long). He says the pith paper is not expensive, and he will sell it in any amount, large or small. His address is 1212 I Street, Alexandria, VA 22307-1454, and his telephone is 703/768-1768.
• Miranda Martin, who in recent years has worked in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center laboratory and taught a section of the paper conservation course at the Conservation and Preservation Studies program at the University of Texas, is now a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation. She works as a paper conservator at the National Archives and Records Administration. AIC NL Nov
• Ursula Mitra, formerly at the Frick Art Reference Library, took a new job in October as Conservator in the Preservation Department of Bobst Library at New York University. Her new address is New York University Libraries, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012-1091 (212/998-2562, e-mail mitra@elmer4.bobst.nyu.edu.) GBW NLp.2
• Karen Pavelka became a full-time member of the faculty of Preservation and Conservation Studies at the University of Texas library school in September. She is a senior lecturer in conservation of library and archival materials. She had been teaching paper conservation there as an adjunct lecturer since 1994. Alumni News Oct
• Lorraine Perrotta has been appointed Acquisitions Librarian at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. (RBMS NL Fa97)
• Roberta Pilette is now working at the New York Public Library as Associate Chief, Preservation Treatment, Preservation Division. Her temporary phone number at work is 212/930-0663, and her e-mail address is rpilette@nypl.org.
• Harold Plenderleith, a prominent member of the international group of conservators who founded the International Institute for Conservation in 1950, died Nov. 2 at the age of 99. He was Keeper of the British Museum Research Laboratory from 1949 to 1959, and first director of the "Rome Center," now known as ICCROM, 1959 to 1971. His obituary begins on the front page of the IIC Bulletin for December 1997.
• Mark Pollei has been appointed Chief Conservator of the Rare Book Conservation Laboratory at Brigham Young University, effective September 1997.
• Ann Seibert of the Library of Congress and Dianne van der Reyden of CAL taught a six-week ICCROM course on "Conservation of Paper in Archives" in 1994 and 1996 in Chile. Their experience is described in the ICCROM Newsletter for September 1997.
• Jan and Jarmila Sobota, creative bookbinders who left Czechoslovakia before the Berlin Wall fell and made their way to the U.S. thirteen years ago, have moved back to their native country. Their address is: Radnicni 1, 357 33 Loket, Czech Republic (ph. 42 168/684 154; e-mail sobota@mbox.vol.cz). They expect to return to the U.S. for visits "often."
• Third-year Winterthur/University of Delaware students majoring in paper conservation are serving the following internships:
  Dana Hemmenway - HRHRC and The Better Image
  Dana Tepper - Princeton University Preservation Office and The Better Image
  Jodie Utter - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (AIC NL)
• Third-year students at the University of Texas Preservation and Conservation Studies program consulted at the following institutions and organizations last summer as part of their training: Heather Caldwell - Austin History Center
  Whitney Baker - Southwestern Kansas Regional Disaster Preparedness Initiative
  Alexandra Botelho - George Eastman House, International Museum for Photography
  Liz Dube - Carlsbad Caverns National Park Site
  Laura Larkin - UT-Austin Architectural Drawings Collection
  Tina Mason - University of the South Library
  Holly Moore - University of Minnesota Law Library Alum News p. 6, Oct.