Archives for the ‘Collections and Technical Services’ Category

Albany’s Historic Cherry Hill Wins National Preservation Award

This was just announced by Heritage Preservation.  It seems Historic Cherry Hill located here in Albany, NY has been selected for the Award For Outstanding Commitment to Preservation and Care of Collections.  Congratulations Historic Cherry Hill!
Here is the press release…
HISTORIC CHERRY HILL AND THE SHELBURNE MUSEUM RECEIVE NATIONAL PRESERVATION AWARD
(Nominations invited for 2010 award)
Historic [...]

New Role for Nylink: Marketing and Support for Library Dynamics Spectra

June 25, Albany NY. Multi-type New York State library consortium Nylink is pleased to announce a partnership with Maryland-based library services company Library Dynamics to market and support their collection analysis suite of tools including the Spectra line of services.
Spectra Web services provide collection overview to individual title analytical capability, leveraging the time and [...]

Standford to Shutdown CoOL and Conservation Distlist

News came over the Museum-L listserv late last week that Stanford University will no longer be hosting CoOL (Conservation Online) and the Conservation Distlist.  Both of these resources are used by many folks as places to find out the latest information on conservation and preservation related issues.
Below is more information:
ate: 10 Jun 2009
From: Catherine Tierney [...]

Grant Opportunity from the NEH: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Program

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant
The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be  accepting applications for grants in its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program.  These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and [...]

Nylink’s True Serials Service Offers Cost-Effective ERM and More

Nylink is pleased to announce the launch of True Serials, a hosted serials management service developed and managed by Nylink staff. Built on a knowledgebase that includes over 425 database and serials aggregation packages (representing thousands of individual titles), True Serials can work for your library.
Dave Penniman, Executive Director of Nylink, says “True Serials, the [...]

What Will You Do for MayDay?

Libraries, museums, archives, arts and historic preservation organizations across the nation will set aside May 1 to participate in MayDay, a national effort to prepare for disasters.  Sponsored by Heritage Preservation, AASLH and other members of the Heritage Emergency National Taskforce, MayDay encourages organizations to take one simple step to protect the art, artifacts, records, [...]