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Subject:        Discussion Announcement, ALA, San Diego 2004
Date:   Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:47:15 -0500
From:   Atalanta Grant-Suttie <ag175@UMAIL.UMD.EDU>

*Discussion Announcement for ALCTS/PARS  - San Diego, 2004*

The ALA Midwinter meeting for the PARS Preservation Issues in Small to
Mid-Sized Libraries Discussion Group will be held at the San Diego
Marriott Hotel, Room Torrey 1 on Sunday, January 11, 2004 from
8:30-11:00a.m.

Previously, institutions designed conservation laboratories within
existing library space to address the preservation needs of a library or
archive.  Today, many institutions are constructing conservation
laboratories off-campus and often times in association with remote
storage facilities to accommodate growing programs, state-of-the-art
equipment, and to alleviate some of the space issues within the
library.  This discussion group will address the advantages and
disadvantages of designing new conservation laboratories in tandem with
off-site remote storage, existing models of institutions that have
already built new conservation labs, and what other approaches are being
investigated in designing new conservation facilities.  A moderator will
ask a panel representing various institutions to address several
questions and then the discussion will be opened up to all attendees.

The panel will feature:

· *Winston Atkins*, Preservation Officer at Duke University.
· *Claire Q. Bellanti*, Director of the UC Southern Regional Library
Facility and  UCLA Library Resource Sharing.
· *Jake Nadal*, Head of the Preservation Department at University of
Indiana.
· *Patricia Smith-Hunt*, Head of Preservation at Ohio University.
· *Thomas Teper,* Head of Preservation at the University of Illinois at
Urbana Champagne.

*Moderators:*
Jean Ann Croft                             Atalanta Grant-Suttie
Preservation Department               Preservation Department
University of Pittsburgh                 University of Maryland
Pittsburg, PA 15260                     McKeldin Library
Tel:  412 244-7522                     College Park, MD  20714
Email:  jeanann@pitt.edu              Tel:  301 405-9328
                                                    Email:
ag175@umail.umd.edu