Volume 24, Number 4
Dec 2000

People

• Jo Anne Martinez has established Cariño Conservation of Books and Paper in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She can be reached at 1608 Los Arboles Ave. N.W., Albuquerque, NM, 87107, 505/343-9172, carino@nmfiber.com.
• Ruth Johnston-Feller, of Pittsburgh, PA, died April 27, 2000. She had most recently been a consultant in color science to the Research Center on the Materials of the Artist & Conservator, at the Mellon Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. There she directed the Color Science Laboratory and research on the fading of paints and textiles. Before this, she had been manager of coatings and colorimetry laboratories of the Pigment Department of Ciba-Geigy Corp. in Ardsley, NY.
• Judith Hofenk de Graaff's announcement of her retirement was in this column on p. 49 in the last issue, but the names of the "young and enthusiastic team of colleagues" who will continue her work was inadvertently omitted. They are:

  Frank Ligterink - Physicist and paper conservator
  Jose Luiz Pedersoli Jr. - Paper scientist
  Johan Neevel - Scientist
  Birgit Reissland - Paper conservator
  Susan de Groot - Chemical engineer

• David B. Gracy II, who served as interim director of the Preservation and Conservation Studies program at the University of Texas Austin for 14 months, agreed in June to head the newly organized Center for the Cultural Record within the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UT. This center will bring under one administration three programs: Preservation and Conservation Studies, Archival and Records Enterprise, and the newly formed Museum Studies unit. This reflects a current trend in the U.S. and abroad, and is expected to strengthen all three components, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration. The curriculum of PCS will not be affected by this move.
• Mark S. Roosa, formerly the Chief of the Library of Congress's Conservation Division, has been appointed to the position of Director for Preservation. He succeeds Diane Nester Kresh, who was appointed Director for Public Service Collections in April 1998. Before coming to the Library of Congress in 1998, he served as the Preservation Officer for the Huntington Library. He also served as the Preservation Officer for the University of Delaware, where he administered the U.S. Newspaper Project for Delaware.
• Pamela Drayson, North Dakota State University Libraries director since June 15, 2000, was faced with a flash flood four days after assuming her new duties. A storm dumped rain on the town and campus at the rate of an inch an hour, and the Main Library was flooded with four feet of sewage-water-petroleum products on its lower level. Half the bound periodicals were hauled directly to the dump, and the uncontaminated half was frozen. The building was gutted and cleaned on all floors, and books that had been on the top floors were individually cleaned, although they had not been under water, and shelved in new quarters. Cost of recovery was estimated at five million dollars. For more information, send an e-mail message to Pamela_Drayson@ndsu.nodak.edu.