FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"INSTITUTING A CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENT MONITORING PROGRAM"
CCAHA Announces Environmental Monitoring Workshop


DATE:
Tuesday, September 23, 1997

LOCATION:
The Franklin Institute
222 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA

AUDIENCE:
The workshop is intended for library, archive, house museum, and
museum professionals, as well as for architects, engineers, and
staff involved in facilities management and design.

CONTENT:
The workshop will supply the technical background to develop
support and documentation for improving environmental conditions
for long-term preservation of cultural collections.  The workshop
will present the rationale, techniques, and equipment used to
monitor the critical environmental conditions for cultural
collections.  Ways to develop realistic methods to monitor
humidity, temperature, lighting, particulates, and gaseous
contamination will be discussed, including analysis and
interpretation of hygrothermograph data.  Various types of
monitoring equipment will be demonstrated, and a useful packet of
supportive information will be provided.

SPEAKER:
William P. Lull, Principal and Senior Conservation Environment
Consultant at Garrison/Lull Inc., Princeton Junction, NJ, and
Adjunct Associate Professor of Building Technology at New York
University, will conduct the workshop.

COST:
$45.00  CCAHA members
$50.00  Non-CCAHA members


The workshop will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  The
registration fee includes supplementary materials and a box lunch.

The this one-day environmental workshop, "Instituting a
Conservation Environment Monitoring Program", is being co-sponsored
by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA),
The Franklin Institute, the Tri-State Coalition for Historic
Places, the Delaware Valley Archivists Group, the Museum Council of
Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, and the Tri-State College
Library Cooperative.

This workshop is partially funded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Dolfinger-
McMahon Foundation, the Merit Gasoline Foundation, and the Claneil
Foundation.

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
Tel:  215.545.0613
Fax:  215.735.9313
email:  [log in to unmask]


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.  CCAHA specializes in the treatment of works of art and
historic artifacts on paper, such as 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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