Volume 24, Number 1
2000

People

• Sarah Stauderman, formerly of Vidipax, is now the Preservation Manager and Archives Conservator for the Smithsonian Archives. She will be responsible for preservation policy and conservation treatment for a diverse collection that includes paper, photographs, ephemera, moving image and audio materials.
• Philip Smith has been appointed by the Queen as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his "services to Art."
• Ted Snider announced recently that all his commercial-scale Cranberry Mills papermaking equipment has been purchased by Gordon Sisler and will be transferred this fall to Sisler's residence near St. Catherines, Ontario.
• Anne Kenney, of Cornell Unversity, will join the Council on Library and Information Resources as program director September 1. She will be based in Ithaca, where she will divide her time between Cornell and CLIR. Initially, her responsibilities at CLIR will focus on strategies for creation of short- and long-term digital archival repositories and promoting preservation education initiatives.
• Alan E. Puglia has joined the staff of Houghton Library at Harvard as Conservator for Houghton Library Collections, working in the Weissman Preservation Center. He is a 1996 graduate of the University of Texas Preservation and Conservation Studies Program, and his third-year internship was at the University of Iowa Libraries' Conservation Department, focusing on advanced treatment of special collections materials, particularly rare books. He has also received training in rare book conservation at the Library of Congress and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
• Jane Hedberg has been appointed Preservation Program Officer in the Weissman Preservation Center at Harvard. She will provide preservation field services for Harvard's libraries, serve as the Center's managing editor, oversee its preservation and imaging resource library, and co-direct the Library Collections Emergency Team.
• Julie Biggs received a Kress publication fellowship, which permits her to concentrate on writing a book on her chosen topic, iron-gall ink. She has left for a workshop in Germany on this topic, and then will go to Austria to visit some people who have done relevant work. She will also teach a course on the conservation of iron-gall ink/paper in Ascona at the Centro del Bel Libro, visit more people in the UK, and attend the Newcastle conference on iron-gall ink, returning to Washington, DC, in early September to start writing on the conservation of iron-gall ink on paper. Since she will be concentrating on the project full-time, she has left the Folger Library. Her funding will carry her through April, 2001. She can be contacted through e-mail (julie_biggs@yahoo.com).