The Northeast Document Conservation Center announces an extension of the
registration deadline for school for scanning NYC. The new registration
deadline is October 24, 1997. School for Scanning: Issues of Preservation
and Access for Paper-Based Collections, November 3-5, 1997; At the New
York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Ave. (at 103rd St.), NYC
School for Scanning is a conference designed to take the mystery out of
digital technology while training participants in: The Basics of Digital
Technology; File Formats; Content Selection for Digitiza-tion; Legal
Issues; Text and Image Scanning; Quality Control and Costs; Metadata;
Digital Preservation; World Wide Web Applications; CD-ROM Publications.
The faculty includes: Steve Dalton, NEDCC; Howard Besser, University of
California at Berkeley; Steve Chapman, Harvard University; Paul Conway,
Yale University Library; Richard Ekman, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;
Franziska Frey, Image Permanence Institute; Janet Gertz, Columbia
University; Kevin Guthrie, JSTOR; Paul Handly, National Park Service;
Melissa Smith Levine, Library of Congress; Steve Puglia, National Archives
and Records Administration; Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University; Maxine
Sitts,Digital Communications Consultant; Roy Tennant, University of
California at Berkeley; Diane van der Reyden, Conservation Analytical
Laboratory; Diane Vogt-O Connor, National Park Service; and Stuart Weibel,
OCLC.
The cost of the conference is $255 including lunches. All participants
will also be responsible for all their travel and lodging costs. The
number of participants is limited and registration applications will be
accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.
For more information or to request a flier with a registration form,
contact Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone
Square, Andover, MA 01810-1494; 508 470-1010; <[log in to unmask]>.
Gay S. Tracy
Public Relations Coordinator
Northeast Document Conservation Center
100 Brickstone Square
Andover MA 01810-1494
Tel 978 470-1010
Fax 978 475-6021
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Web site: http://www.nedcc.org
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