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• Winner of Library Journal Year's Best Professional Reading, 1997 0 (United States)
• Winner of Library Journal Year's Best Professional Reading, 1997 1997 (United States)

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This volume will be a very useful source for librarians, archivists, paraprofessional staff, administrators, and preservation professionals who are engaged in educating their communities about preservation issues...an excellent 'one-stop' resource for anyone looking for concrete suggestions for educational programs aimed at patrons and staff.... [This book] will be an important addition to the preservation literature, pulling together information that is essential to effective preservation programs but that has not been widely and easily accessible in the past. -Ann Russell Executive Director Northeast Document Conservation Center

The book will undoubtedly be of use and interest to many librarians. . . . For librarians who know what they want to do, but are unsure of how to do it or would like to draw on the experiences of others, it is a valuable addition to the literature. - Journal of Documentation Any library should have in its collection a copy of IPromoting Preservation Awareness in Libraries. . . . It is a useful source both for the staff and for the patrons who will find answers to questions on handling and storage of any kind on information-bearing entities. - Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory Preservation education - of staff and of patrons - is half the preservation battle. In the numerous case studies presented in this very useful book, representing the spectrum of library/archive environments, there is much practical advice and even some wisdom, readily adaptable to all caretakers of the human record. From UCLA's stringent security measures to the dramatic learning experience in an elementary school media center, this book explores how to raise preservation consciousness at all levels. Library tours, workshops, sensitive staff/patron interaction, programming suggestions, effective graphics, and creative use of the World Wide Web are all seen as opportunities to promote preservation. A particular and unexpected gem is Edward Hutchins' essay, Guerrilla Bookmaking, which gets one thinking creatively about the human value of books and about how to communicate that value. In short, the principles of preservation education elucidated here make this indispensable. Highly recommended for all libraries. ways to raise preservation consciousness from library tours to creative uses of the Internet. - Library Journal

<p> Preservation education - of staff and of patrons - is half the preservation battle. In the numerous case studies presented in this very useful book, representing the spectrum of library/archive environments, there is much practical advice and even some wisdom, readily adaptable to all caretakers of the human record. From UCLA's stringent security measures to the dramatic learning experience in an elementary school media center, this book explores how to raise preservation consciousness at all levels. Library tours, workshops, sensitive staff/patron interaction, programming suggestions, effective graphics, and creative use of the World Wide Web are all seen as opportunities to promote preservation. A particular and unexpected gem is Edward Hutchins' essay, Guerrilla Bookmaking, which gets one thinking creatively about the human value of books and about how to communicate that value. In short, the principles of preservation education elucidated here make this indispensable. Highly recommended for all libraries. ways to raise preservation consciousness from library tours to creative uses of the Internet. - <p>Library Journal

Any library should have in its collection a copy of I Promoting Preservation Awareness in Libraries . . . . It is a useful source both for the staff and for the patrons who will find answers to questions on handling and storage of any kind on information-bearing entities. - Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory

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JEANNE M. DREWES is Head of Preservation at Johns Hopkins University's Eisenhower Library. Formerly she was Assistant Preservation Librarian at Michigan State University. She received her M.L.S. from the University of Missouri-Columbia and was a Mellon Intern for Preservation Administration at the University of Michigan. She is a member of the American Library Association and is active in the Preservation and Reformatting Section including participating in preservation education programs. She has published on the topic of preservation. JULIE A. PAGE is Preservation Librarian at the University of California/San Diego. She has established preservation education as an integral part of the Library's staff and user education programs. She has cochaired preservation education programs for the American Library Association and is active in its Preservation and Reformatting Section. Topics of her publications include preservation education and disaster preparedness and recovery.

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