For Immediate Release

NEDCC POSTS
SELF-SURVEY GUIDE ON-LINE AT
www.nedcc.org

The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) announces the on-line
availability of its latest publication, Assessing Preservation Needs: A
Self-Survey Guide.  This exciting multi-media project was funded by a
Library Leadership Grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS).  NEDCC also receives major funding for its Field Service Program
from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 An empowering and important new resource, the purpose of this guide is to
help small to medium-sized institutions with limited preservation experience
and budgets to design a program ensuring that their historical collections
survive in usable condition as long as possible.  In an effort to make this
important information available at no cost to anyone at anytime, NEDCC has
posted the text on its Web site at www.nedcc.org.

 Working in partnership with NEDCC, Amigos Library Services, Inc. of Dallas
Texas, has also produced a 30-minute video entitled: The Preservation
Survey: A First Step in Saving Your Collections which highlights the themes
of this new publication.  Available now through Amigos, the video vividly
illustrates both the dangers to collections and offers best practices in
examining an institution's policies for preserving its general and special
collections materials.   Information about ordering the video can be found
on Amigos' Website, at www.amigos.org.

To order the hardcopy edition of Assessing Preservation Needs: A Self-Survey
Guide, send a check made out to NEDCC for $15.00 to, Juanita Singh,
Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA
01810; The cost includes UPS Ground shipping and handling within the
continental U.S.  Faster shipping is available at cost.  All payments must
be made in U.S. dollars.  Include your name, mailing address, and email
address, or use the order form that is now available at www.nedcc.org.

To find out more about NEDCC's and Amigos' services and programs, visit
their Websites at: www.nedcc.org and www.amigos.org as well as the Regional
Alliance for Preservation's Website at www.rap-arcc.org.