Afterimages is a course designed to teach managers of picture collections how to plan and manage projects to reformat endangered visual materials, including deteriorating cellulose acetate and cellulose nitrate negatives for both black and white and color images. Archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums often hold large collections of photographs and other visual materials, many of which are fragile or relatively inaccessible. Reformatting these images either digitally or photographically can limit future damage to original images, while increasing access to them either over the Web or in other publication forms. The sessions will introduce photographic duplication options and digital imaging technologies and compare their commonalties and differences. If you are an archivist, curator, historic preservation specialist, librarian, or other cultural resources manager dealing with collections including photographic materials, you will be interested in attending Afterimages.
All participants are responsible for their meal, travel, and lodging costs.
The deadline to register is September 1, 1998.