condition collection materials as well as administering the self supporting photography lab for
preservation microfilming and copy photography. A series of externally funded microfilming projects
have been an additional responsibility for the past few years, including day to day project management as
well as planning and executing succeeding grant applications.

Prior to Berkeley, she was Associate Library (Conservation) for the New York State Library. This
included providing coordination of preservation activities for general and special collections: program
planning and budgeting; collection management; library binding; microform production (in-house and
service bureau work) and conservation treatment.

Before her Albany, New York posting, Ann was the Mellon Intern in Preservation Administration at the
Yale University Library, working with Gay Walker for 12 months study in the success of that library
preservation program; one special project was analysis of the Library's microfilming lab and plans for its
future management.

Prior to the New Haven internship, she was Preservation Librarian in the Harvard University Library,
managing day to day operations for six years of successive Title II-C funded projects for preservation
microfilming among the many units of the Harvard library system. Tasks here included establishing and
adapting coordinated routines for microfilming of rare and fragile research materials; coordinating
microfilming with other preservation activities; managing project budgets and filming allocations to
individual special programs; assisting in preparation of grant applications funding the work.

Ann received her MLS in 1978 from Indian University. She has participated in a wide variety of
preservation education activities since that time, including extensive programs on grant writing,
(sponsored by The Grantsmanship Center of Los Angeles), the ARL OMS 'Library Skills I: The Manager'
workshop, the Research Libraries Group workshop: Quality Assurance in Preservation Microfilming, the
Research Libraries Group Imaging Symposium, Ithaca, NY and the workshop: The Use of Digital
Imaging Technology for Preservation and Access sponsored by the Cornell University Library.

In addition to attending educational events, Ann has presented programs on a wide variety of preservation
topics, from telling New York State historians how to construct their state mandated village history
scrapbooks to many programs on preservation microfilming.

She covered the topics of Replacement and Reformatting for a team taught course in the SUNY-Albany
School of Information and Science Policy, a course which may lead to publication of a basic 'reader' for
library school preservation education, and has spoken to a variety of other library audiences.

She served as an appointed New York State representative to the Northeast Document Conservation
Center Advisory Committee, as a field reviewed for NEH and IMS grant applications, and was a member
of OCLC Preservation Advisory Committee

Her publication activity ranges from a general preservation notes column in the RTSD newsletter, to
serving as editor of that title's successor, the ALCTS Newsletter; major works on preservation
microfilming (Gwinn, editor, Preservation Microfilming: a Handbook for Librarian and Archivists and
the RLG Preservation Microfilming Handbook) include her contributions, primarily in the areas of
preparation of materials for microfilming. In addition, she has written on broader topics of evaluation of
microfilming vendors and the role of micropublishing in a preservation program.