grants for the preservation of these collections, including a grant from the Native Hawaiian Culture and
Arts Program (1990-1993) to reformat the Hawaiian chants in their manuscript collection.

In November 1996, Lynn became head of the Preservation Department at the University of Hawai'i at
Manoa Library. In this capacity she has responsibility for the preservation of the general collection (3
million volumes), as well as archives and other special collections. She supervises 5 FTE, and oversees
bindery preparation, conservation, reformatting and photography. The Library has an on-going
preservation microfilming program for its brittle, and deteriorating books. Lynn gives community
lectures on preservation related topics, and works with the Library administration to increase support for
preservation activities.

Lynn has written extensively on early photographic documentation of Hawai'i. Her major publications
include: A Photographer in the Kingdom: Christian J. Hedemanns Early Images of Hawai'i, Bishop
Museum Press, 1988; and Na Pai Kii: The Photographers in the Hawaiian Islands 1845-1900, Bishop
Museum Press, 1980.


Samuel Demas

Mr. Demas has worked in administrative positions in academic libraries for twenty years. For the past ten
years he has specialized in the development and preservation of research library collections. As Head of
Collection Development and Preservation Division at the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University
since 1985, Demas administers a division employing thirteen FTE plus students. Division functions
include materials selection, collection policy formulation, collection evaluation, a gifts and exchange
operation, faculty liaison, conservation, preservation, and commercial binding for a collection of 650,000
volumes and 9,000 serials currently received. He allocates and monitors an acquisitions budget of over
$1.3 million per year and directs selection of materials in all formats.

Prior to his work in collection development and preservation at Albert R. Mann Library, Demas was
employed at Cornell as Associate Director of Mann Library 1983-1985, Head of Access Services at Olin
Library 1981-82, Head of Circulation/Reserve at Uris Library 1977-1982. He was Head of Public
Services at the Goddard College Library 1974-1977.

His research and development interests focus on two areas: 1. systematically integrating the selection and
management of electronic publications into the principles practice of collection development, and 2.
selection for preservation and advancement of a disciplinary approach to preservation. Mr. Demas was
closely involved with the effort to develop a National Preservation Program for Agricultural Sciences
Literature and is deeply committed to the advancement of this cooperative, discipline-based preservation
plan. He has built on the groundbreaking work of Wallace C. Olsen in systematic identification of core
historical literature, extending and adapting the selection methodologies in the subjects of entomology,
state and local level agriculture and rural life literature (as part of the National Preservation Program for
Agricultural Sciences Literature), and local and regional natural history literature. Demas has organized
conference programs, spoken in various forums, and published articles to encourage the movement
towards a cooperative, disciplinary approach to preservation.

Demas has written proposals for and administered six different preservation projects, each of them of
two-four years duration, resulting in the reformatting (via microfilming and/or scanning) of over 11,000
volumes since 1986. His B.A. is from the University of Massachusetts, M.A. from Goddard College, and
M.L.S. from Indiana University. Among his awards and honors are receipt of the SUNY Chancellors
Award for Excellence in Librarianship (1994), "LAPT Research Award" (with Bill Kara and Anne
Caputo), and a Fulbright-Hays Research and Teaching Fellowship in Greece (1992).