Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts

An interesting resource I ran across through the ARLIS listserv today!

Statue of Liberty postcards from Ellis Island

"CCAHA specializes in the treatment of art and historic artifacts on paper and provides preservation education, training, and consultation.  Established in 1977, CCAHA is one of the largest nonprofit conservation facilities in the country."

CCAHA is having a number of interesting events this fall, including a "Care and Preservation of Textiles" training program in September 2012 and a program in November called "The Next Chapter: Rare Books in Modern Times." Conservators from all over the US will participate, including participants from Winterthur, the New York Public Library, and the Morgan Library and Museum.

Exciting News for the Digital Public Library of America

‘Library of the Future’ Gets $1-Million Boost From Humanities Endowment

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education announces an NEH grant for the Digital Public Library of America. The DPLA project, scheduled to launch in April 2013, has struggled with complex issues of copyright, collaboration, and content.  The NEH grant will help a pilot project to engage state (or regional) level "hubs" according to the director of the governing body for the Digital Public Library, Maura Marx.

Job Hunting Resources

Hiring Librarians Blog was suggested by one of my fellow Emporia State University MLS students.  It includes some good tips for applications, interviews, and resumes.

Library Jobline has position listings and good resources.

Merger of EBSCO Publishing and H. W. Wilson Company

The announcement this week of the merger between publishers EBSCO Publishing and H. W. Wilson Company has the library world all a twitter (in the old-school twitter sense).  Some sources describe it as EBSCO acquiring Wilson.

Here is the Library Journal's take on it:

Wilson operates a similar business to EBSCO offering abstract/index records and fulltext databases via its proprietary platform, Wilson Web, but it is a much smaller company with about 200 employees and sales that are less than 10 percent of EBSCO's.

Databases from Wilson will be integrated with EBSCOhost over the coming months, and, eventually, the WilsonWeb platform will be eliminated, the companies said in a press release. EBSCO will maintain WilsonWeb until all Wilson databases are available on EBSCOhost and customers have been transitioned to EBSCOhost.

(read the rest of the article here).

Steve Lawson, Humanities Liaison Librarian for Tutt Library at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, has a slightly more sarcastic take on the "merger" in his blog, See Also...

Personally, I don't get the depth of the issue, but it seems to be BIG in the library world!