The Northeast Document Conservation Center presents the following
conference:  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

What is the School for Scanning? A seminar that will 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.

Who Should Attend?  If you are an archivist, curator, interpreter,
librarian, historic preservation specialist, registrar, or other cultural
or natural resource manager dealing with paper-based collections, you will
be interested in attending the School for Scanning.  No prior knowledge of
digital media is required.

Who Are the Faculty?  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, Commission on Preservation and Access; 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.

What does the conference cost?  The cost of the seminar 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.  The
deadline to register is October 17, 1997.

For more information about NEDCC and a calendar of workshops and seminars,
visit NEDCC s homepage at <http://www.nedcc.org>.
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 508 470-1010
Fax 508 475-6021
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Web site: http://www.nedcc.org