"HAVE YOU GOT THE BLUES?"
CCAHA Continues Architectural Records Workshops in 1998

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 workshops will be co-sponsored by the site
institutions

WORKSHOP #1
Date:      Thursday, September 24, 1998
Location:  The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of
           Library and Information Science, Austin, Texas

Presented in cooperation with AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, Inc.


WORKSHOP #2
Date:      Friday, November 6, 1998
Location:  The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans,
           Louisiana

Presented in cooperation with the Southeastern Library Network
(SOLINET).


AUDIENCE:
The workshops are intended for architectural historians and
architects, as well as library, archives, and museum
professionals who have architectural records, drawings or other
oversize 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 management and
organization 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 (CCAHA)

COST:
$80.00 - Members of CCAHA, AMIGOS or SOLINET
$90.00 - Non-members


The workshop agenda will also include a presentation by a speaker
from the host site, who will address management issues related to
their unique collections.

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 includes supplementary materials and lunch.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND A REGISTRATION FORM, PLEASE CONTACT:

Susan W. DuBois, Preservation Services Representative
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)
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.  CCAHA 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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