"HAVE YOU GOT THE BLUES?"
CCAHA Announces Architectural Records Workshops

The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)
announces two day-long architectural records workshops, "Have You
Got the Blues? Architectural Records: Their Identification,
Management, Storage, and Treatment."  The workshops are partially
funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Gladys
Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation.
The workshops will be co-sponsored by the site institutions.


Date:      Tuesday, June 3, 1997
Location:  The Octagon, The Museum of The American Architectural
           Foundation, Washington, DC


Date:      Wednesday, November 5, 1997:
Location:  Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, NY


AUDIENCE:
The workshops are intended for architectural historians,
architects, as well as library, archives, and museum professionals
who have architectural records and drawings or other oversized
paper-based materials in their care or collections.

SUBJECT:
The speakers will address the problems of caring for the diverse
materials of an architectural records collection.  The workshops
will help participants identify different original media and
reproductive processes; consider options for organization,
cataloging, access, and reformatting of architectural records;
recognize storage problems and options; and discuss basic
collections care methods and remedial treatments that can be safely
accomplished in-house.

SPEAKERS:
Lois Olcott Price, Conservator of Library Collections, Winterthur
Library
Joan Irving, Conservator, Conservation Center for Art and Historic
Artifacts

Sherry Birk, Director of Permanent Collections at The Octagon, The
Museum of The American Architectural Foundation, will speak in
Washington, D.C.

Martha Hanson, Preservation Administrator at Syracuse University
Library, will speak in Syracuse, NY.


The workshops will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.   Enrollment
will be limited to 30 participants.  The registration fee of $75.00
includes supplementary materials and a box lunch.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND A REGISTRATION FORM, PLEASE CONTACT:

Susan W. DuBois, Preservation Services Representative
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
264 South 23rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215.545.0613   FAX:  215.735.9313
email:  [log in to unmask]
WWW Site: http://www.ccaha.org


Created by Congress in 1965, the National Endowment for the
Humanities is an independent agency that supports education,
research, preservation projects, and public programs in the
humanities.

The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA),
established in 1977, is a non-profit regional conservation
laboratory serving other non-profit cultural, educational, and
research institutions as well as private individuals and
organizations that are located principally in the Mid-Atlantic
region.  The Center specializes in the treatment of works of art
and historic artifacts on paper, such as drawings, prints, maps,
posters, historic wallpaper, photographs, rare books, scrapbooks,
manuscripts, and related materials, such as parchment and papyrus.
It also offers on-site consultation services; educational programs
and seminars; and internships, fellowships, and apprenticeships.


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