----------------------------Original message---------------------------- "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. ###