University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis - Arrangement, description and preservation of manuscripts and illustrations of American and British children's books held in the university's Kerlan collection. Cornell University, Ithaca - A research and demonstration project, also related to the DPC, to test the feasibility of producing from the digitized pages of 10,000 volumes microfilm that will meet national preservation standards for quality and image permanence. The volumes to be scanned in this two-year project comprise the retrospective core literature of agricultural economics and rural sociology at Cornell. New York Public Library, New York - Arrangement, description, cataloging and preservation of primary resources in seven repositories that document the history of dance. New York University, New York - Arrangement, description and microfilming of the archives of Greenwich House, a pioneering settlement house in New York City.
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The Commission's two preservation and access exhibits are also available to sponsors at no charge. Pell, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities, has served as a U.S. Senator since 1961. AIC recognized that both men have a clear understanding of the issues and concerns of the conservation field, and that during the course of several decades, their leadership in congress in promoting the importance of the arts and humanities has been exemplary. The issue of library collections conservation to address the care of non-rare materials also is a joint concern. This article was prepared by the AIC, which is in turn publishing an article about Commission initiatives in its newsletter.