5. Preservation Profiles


5.3 CALIFORNIA AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
 -BERKELEY


 The Conservation Department of the Library, University of California, Berkeley, has played a pivotal role
 in statewide preservation planning, training and production activity in a variety of programs. Under
 contract to the State Library, the UC Berkeley Conservation Department staff prepared a simple survey
 instrument and trained a sample group to use the tool (CALIPR, 1991) to undertake. a statewide
 preservation needs assessment process. A comprehensive process of regional meetings, planning
 documents and open review sessions was also undertaken to develop statewide goals and objectives for a
 preservation program. The culmination of this work, The California Preservation Program (May, 1995),
 was produced by the UC Conservation Department.

 The Conservation Department also has worked to coordinate preservation activity within the nine campus
 University of California system. A report Conservation of the Collection (1985, revised 1988) led to an
 initial state allocation to the nine campus system and an early effort of this group was the NEH-funded
 Preservation Implementation Project (1985- 87) developed by UC Berkeley to train a preservation
 administrator for each of the other eight campuses. The Conservation Department has continued this
 training effort with LSCA funding among institutions in the Bay Area and, with NEH funds, sponsorship
 of a series of training programs for conservation technicians nationally.

 As a foundation to its statewide activity, the Conservation Department includes four operational units--
 Binding Preparation, Conservation Treatment, Preservation Replacement and Library Photographic
 Service--and works towards the goal of maintaining the eight million volumes of the UC Berkeley
 collection in usable condition to support the university's mission of teaching and research. In addition to
 the training programs mentioned above, the Conservation Department has conducted a series of NEH
 proposals for microfilming volumes supporting research in Western European (13,416 volumes, 1988-
 91), Latin American (11,530 volumes, 1991-1993) and Eastern European and Slavic (projected 10,000
 volumes, 1993-1995) language materials. Other microfilming projects have included participation in a
 number of the Research Libraries Group "Great Collections" proposals and on-going projects with
 foreign institutions, such as the National Institute of Language Study, Japan, and the state government
 archives of Tabasco, Mexico. Berkeley also participated in a project to microfilm California land grant
 publications in the late 1970's, in cooperation with the National Agricultural Library. Berkeley's program
 over the long term will continue to address the immediate needs of scholars and students for access to
 individual titles, and to review collections systematically, giving priority to national and internationally
 significant collections.

 University of California, Berkeley USAIN Project Staff

 Berkeley's participation in the phase 2 project will be co-managed by Norma Kobzina, Head, Information
 Services and Bioscience and Natural Resources Librarian, and Ann Swartzell, Head of the Preservation
 Replacement and Library Photographic Service units. During phase 1, Ms. Kobzina was responsible for
 bibliographic analysis and selection including developing and refining the scope of the bibliography,
 compiling the citations and coordinating the work of the scholarly reviewers. She was assisted by staff of
 the Bioscience and Natural Resources Library who participated in the compilation of the bibliography
 including bibliographic verification work and location of titles. Upon completion, the bibliography was
 referred to a four-person scholarly review panel to rank the titles according to their importance as
 research resources for humanities studies. In the phase 2 project, Ms. Swartzell will be responsible for
preservation activities-managing the microfilming completed by the Conservation Department's Library
Photographic Service and ensuring compliance with all preservation and access standards and guidelines
for the project.