Volume 22, Number 1
1998

People

• Robert Wedgeworth will retire August 20, 1999 as university librarian of the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign. He was dean of Columbia University's library school (then home of the Conservation Education Programs) from the late 1980s until 1992, when it closed. He served as IFLA president from 1992 to 1997.
• Mark Andersson will start work as head of the Bookbinding program at North Bennet Street School beginning in September. He graduated in 1992 from the school, which was then under Mark Esser. He has led training courses in the Seattle area for the Book Arts Guild, and was co-teacher of a three-week NEH training project for book repairers.
• Nancy Schrock, Chief Collections Conservator for the Harvard College Library, was elected Treasurer of AIC this summer.
• Marilyn Kemp Weidner was made an AIC Honorary Member at the AIC meeting June 5, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of conservation. She has been a pioneer for over 40 years in the conservation of art and artifacts on paper, having invented the suction table and developed it for use both with and without a moisture chamber. She also pioneered the application of east Asian mounting techniques to western art; founded the CCAHA in 1977; taught interns and apprentices; worked for certification; and went to Florence in 1966 to help with flood recovery.
• Nancy Odegaard is working on a book, Spot Tests for Materials Characterization, having received a Kress Conservation Publication Fellowship for 1998. It will include information on over 75 tests. There have been other books on spot tests, but this will be the first one that covers artifact materials.
• William T. Henderson retired in April, 1996, from his job as Preservation Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but continues teaching. He and his wife Kathie organized the two Allerton Conferences on preservation in the 1980s, for which the proceedings were published, and they have developed a semester-long course on preservation which they will present this fall for the eleventh time. He says his interest in preservation was originally aroused by some of his courses at the University of Chicago. He joined the University of Illinois faculty as Assistant Binding Librarian in 1965. His e-mail address is <willt@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>.