Volume 24, Number 5
Feb 2001

Editor's Page

A Thank-You to Supporters

The editor and trustees of Abbey Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, are grateful for the support listed below, as well as for numerous smaller amounts. Donations are listed below for Sponsors ($500 or more), Patrons ($100-$499), and Contributors ($25-$99).

So far in the year 2000, we have received $5,859.51 in gifts. One gift was from a trustee

I have begun drawing my salary once more, but we will not be out of the woods until our second newsletter The Mold Reporter, has more subscribers. At present there are 44.

Ellen McCrady, Editor

Sponsors

Terry O. Norris
Nancy P. Russell

Patrons

Elizabeth S. Banks
Bark Frameworks, Inc.
Joan T. Batchelor
Jack Bendror, Mekatronics
The Better Image
John Boral, B2B
Sally A. Buchanan
Jeanne Drewes
Elizabeth P. Eldridge
Jean & Lily Froissard
Larry Gates, Metal Edge
Lilly Hollander
Hilary Kaplan
David Diggs La Touche
Tawny Ryan Nelb
New York Community Trust - James Talcott Fund
Ocker & Trapp Bindery
Ralph & Christina Ocker
Elaine Schlefer
Nancy Schrock
Richard Daniel Smith
Duane A. Watson

Contributors

Acme Bookbinding
Nelly Balloffet
Jane Dalrymple-Hollo
Robert L. Feller
Carolyn Jane Gammon
Mary Todd Glaser
David B. Gracy, II
Maria L. Grandinette
Kathleen A. Ludwig
Susan Lunas
William Minter
Cynthia Ostroff
Heinke Pensky-Adam
Jeffrey M. Rigby
Ingrid Rose Co., Ltd.
Martha M. Smith
Nathan Stolow
Ann G. Swartzell
Marilyn Kemp Weidner
Deborah Wender
John C. Wright

Abbey Pubs Website is Popular

Our webmaster (and the webmaster for conservators around the world) is Walter Henry. He reported recently that Abbey Publications' pages in Conservation OnLine (CoOL) were used more than half a million times last year. Those were successful requests for pages, as opposed to failed or redirected requests. He says those are "rather phenomenal numbers considering the specialized nature of Abbey Publications!"

CoOL is at http://palimpsest.stanford.edu. The Abbey Publications page is at http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey. "Palimpsest" means "A manuscript consisting of a later writing superimposed upon the original writing, which was first removed to the extent possible," according to the Roberts & Etherington dictionary, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books. Perhaps the word was chosen because of the analogy with documents that were written on a computer, and later erased or revised.

Corrections

On p. 59d, in the Literature section of Vol. 24 #3, Air Quality Sciences is wrongly identified as Air Quality Services.

In the article on chlorine dioxide in the last issue, captions were accidentally left off the three pictures of the treated areas in the stacks. However, they were in the right order, and fairly close to the section of the text that discussed them.

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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. 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 J. Wellvang; secretary Tom Clareson, treasurer Craig Jensen).