Companion Website to
Promoting Preservation Awareness: A Sourcebook for Academic, Public, School, and Special Collections
by Jeanne M. Drewes and Julie A. Page
Web updates contributor: Lorraine A. Dong
It has been over ten years since the publication of "Promoting Preservation Awareness in Libraries" and much has changed in the library and archive world. The general content of the book still applies as a means of promoting preservation awareness but some of the vehicles of transmission have changed. This companion website offers an opportunity to update the Appendixes without producing a new edition of the title. In general the update includes some print, but more predominately web-based resources that support the premise of the title - that there are a variety of means for educating your community of users to establish desirable preservation behaviors by example, attitude and actions. While preservation awareness of staff and users takes an ongoing commitment of library and archive personnel, new venues to heighten that awareness open new opportunities to reach the public and educate them in the ways of preservation.
If you have suggestions for additional websites that should be included here, please email Jeanne Drewes.
Jeanne Drewes is Chief of Binding and Collections Care within the Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress. She was formerly Assistant Director for Access and Preservation at Michigan State University and held preservation library positions at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Michigan. She may be contacted at jdre@loc.gov.
Julie A. Page is Co-Coordinator of the California Preservation Program, and User Services Coordinator for the Western States & Territories Preservation Assistance Service (WESTPAS). She was formerly head of the Preservation Department at the University of California San Diego. She may be contacted at: jpage@calpreservation.org.
Lorraine A. Dong is an IMLS Doctoral Preservation Fellow in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin (UT). She received her M.S.I.S. and C.A.S. in Preservation Administration from UT and her M.Phil. in Renaissance Literature from Cambridge University. Dong has also worked in the Preservation and Conservation Units at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.