Conserving the Antiquarian Libraries of Arequipa

As part of a six-member team from Alabama, Iowa and Texas, and in cooperation with INLIBRI, Chela Metzger, School of Information faculty, and Emily Rainwater, Schoo of Information MSIS/CAS candidate, spent two weeks in July working in Arequipa, Peru with local authorities Helen Ryan, Librarian and Director of Catalog Processing and Alvaro Meneses, Director of INLIBI and Bibliographer. Together the team has demonstrated methods for effective cleaning and exhibition and methods for non-damaging relocation of collections. The team has set-up a workshop and has trained local students from Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria to continue the project in their absence. In addition, study has begun to search for those characteristics common to 17th and 18th century Peruvian book binding. Once the legacy of hand binding in Peru is better understood, it can validate local hand book crafts and book conservation in the future.

More at the Arequipa Books blog

School of Information Receives $504,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

AUSTIN, Texas --A grant for $504,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will provide support to The University of Texas at Austin's School of Information's Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record.

The grant, to be used primarily to support teaching, will enhance the center's mission to focus national attention on preservation. The funds will help sponsor symposia and convene experts to focus on topics that address the management of our cultural heritage in humanities institutions across the United States.

"Cultural records form a precious resource that must be skillfully managed if we are to ensure their sustainability and availability for future generations," said Andrew Dillon, dean of the School of Information. "This award from NEH is further recognition of the unique educational and research programs in preservation and conservation that we provide at The University of Texas."

Home to the nation's #1 ranked program in Archives and Preservation, the School of Information offers comprehensive master's level certificates of advanced study in preservation administration and conservation.

Since 1992, this specialized program has produced more than 90 graduates in its master's degree programs in the administration of preservation and in the conservation treatment of paper-based records. These professionals occupy leading positions in cultural institutions around the world, including the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Huntington Library and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. Graduates of the program are also working at higher education institutions such as Harvard University, Columbia University, Yale University and the University of California at Berkeley.

With significant funding support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the School of Information is also home to the nation's first doctoral program focused specifically on the field of library and archives preservation.

A $20,000 federal match award challenges the Kilgarlin Center to raise $20,000, which NEH will match for additional funding of $40,000.

Contact:Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, director, Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record, 512-471-8287, e.cunnk@mail.utexas.edu or Amy Maverick Crossette, 512-573-1078, amyc@mail.utexas.edu

School of Information Gets Major Gift Commitment From Former Texas Supreme Court Justice

Former Supreme Court of Texas Justice William Wayne Kilgarlin has made a major planned gift commitment to endow the teaching of conservation and preservation at The University of Texas at Austin School of Information.

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Student Receives CLIR's Rovelstad Scholarship in International Librarianship

Lorraine (Lorrie) Alison Dong, a master's degree candidate in the iSchool, focusing her studies in preservation administration, has been named the fifth recipient of the Rovelstad Scholarship in International Librarianship, and award from the Council on Library and Information Resources. Lorrie is also working on a graduate portfolio in nonprofit studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs' RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service. Lorrie has a M.Phil. degree in Renaissance literature from the University of Cambridge in England, and a B.A. in English literature with a minor in education from the University of California at Berkeley.

The scholarhip provides travel funds for a student of library and information science to attend the annual meeting of the World Library and Information Congress. This year's meeting will take place in Durban, South Africa, in August.

Kilgarlin Center Receives NEH Grant

School of Information receives a $483,000 outright grant and $80,000 in federal match to support the Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record.

AUSTIN, Texas - A generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will provide significant support to the UT Austin School of Information's Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record. Funding from NEH will be directed primarily to support teaching and substantially enhances the Center's mission to focus national attention on preservation by educating students, conducting research, sponsoring symposia, and convening expert thinking on broad, timely, interrelated topics that address the management of cultural heritage in the nation's humanities institutions.

Dean Andrew Dillon notes: "the preservation and conservation of our cultural heritage requires expertise and skills that are in tremendously short supply. It is part of our mission to tackle this shortage and the latest NEH award is evidence of the quality of preservation and conservation education provided at The University of Texas."

Home to the nation's #1 ranked program in Archives and Preservation, the School of Information offers the nation's most comprehensive master's-level Certificates of Advanced Study in preservation administration and conservation. Since 1992, this specialized program has produced more than 75 master's graduates in the administration of preservation programs and in the conservation treatment of paper-based records. These professionals represent advanced knowledge and practice in preservation and occupy leading positions in cultural institutions around the world such as Harvard, Columbia, Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Huntington Library, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, and the Vatican. The $80,000 federal match award challenges the Kilgarlin Center to raise $80,000, which NEH will match 1:1 for a total of $160,000, all of which will be used to support students during their studies.

Press Contact: Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Director, Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record, UT Austin School of Information 512-471-8287

Chela Metzger is Awarded Texas Excellent Teaching Award Chela Metzger has been awarded a Texas Excellence Teaching Award, an annual award sponsored by the Texas Ex-Students' Association. Fourteen awards are given annually, one to a faculty member in each school or college at UT Austin. The award was established to encourage quality teaching and publicly recognizes individuals whose teaching and interactions with students have had an effective, positive influence on the lives and educational experience of students at UT Austin. Nominations are solicited from students and recommendations are submitted to the President of the Cabinet of College Councils who submits them to the Ex-Students' Association.

Chela and students

September 20, 2005

Kilgarlin Center Receives Grant from the Tocker Foundation

Museum, library, and archives graduate conservator programs must be rigorous in order to prepare students to assume the responsibility of conserving the cultural records documenting our human experience, creativity, and discovery. In the Kilgarlin Center's program of study, conservator students spend two full years in the classroom and lab, followed by a nine-month internship in a conservation lab. Recent students have interned at Harvard University, the Newberry Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Minnesota Historical Society.

Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Director of the Kilgarlin Center, notes "The vast majority of graduate students have small financial reserves, are dependent on their own earned income, and are carrying substantial student loan debt from their undergraduate studies. In addition to loans, the majority of Kilgarlin Center students work from between 15 and 30 hours per week. The Tocker Foundation's generous support will make an enormous difference for these hardworking, committed students."

August 30, 2005

National Recording Preservation Board Collaboration

The Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record and the National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) are collaborating to:

1. Perform a comprehensive review and critical evaluation of the literature on the preservation of sound recordings
2. Research formal national and international courses and programs of study in sound archives and audio preservation

June 29, 2005

UT Austin School of Information Receives Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

School of Information receives a $251,910 grant to educate doctoral students to teach preservation in library and information science programs. AUSTIN, Texas - With a generous grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the UT Austin School of Information will launch an initiative to educate doctoral students in the fields of preservation administration and policy and digital preservation. The new program for doctoral preservation students will be a significant moment in preservation education and in the production of LIS faculty and library leaders. The proposed project will produce PhD students in preservation prepared to meet the preservation education, research, and leadership challenges of the 21st century, and who will serve as faculty members in preservation, as preservation researchers, and in leading administrative positions in research libraries.

Sandy Edwards, Central Texas Regional Director for U.S. Senator John Cornyn, presents a Certificate of Congratulations to the School of Information. L-R: Dean Andrew Dillon, Sandy Ewards, Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa (Principal Investigator for the IMLS grant), Dr. Patricia Galloway, Dr. Phillip Doty.

Andrew Dillon, Dean of the School of Information, notes "The new doctoral offerings in preservation will establish the UT-Austin School of Information and the School's Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record as a premier resource for PhD preservation education." As the home for the most comprehensive Master's-level Certificate of Advanced Study program in the United States concentrating on preservation administration and conservation for libraries and archives, the School and its Kilgarlin Center are uniquely qualified to undertake the proposed doctoral fellowship program in preservation education. Since 1992, the School of Information has educated more than 75 Master's graduates in the administration of preservation programs for libraries and archives and in the conservation treatment of paper-based records. These professionals represent advanced knowledge and practice in preservation and occupy leading positions in cultural institutions around the world. Graduates have been eagerly sought for staff positions in libraries and archives from universities such as Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and the University of California at Berkeley, to the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Huntington Library, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, and the Vatican.

Press Contact: Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Director, Kilgarlin Center for Preservation fo the Cultural Record, UT Austin School of Information: 512-471-8287

June 22 2005

Faculty, Students and Alums Attend AIC

The 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic (AIC) works was held in Minneapolis from June 8-13. Kilgarlin Center faculty, students and alumni were very well represented.

• Marlan Green (2002), Dan Paterson (2002) and Susan Russick (1997) delivered very well received papers.
• Heather Kaufman (1998), Beth Doyle (1999) and Whitney Baker (1998) chaired a section of the Library Collections Conservation Discussion Group.
• Sonja Reid (2nd-year conservator student) presented a poster session that attracted much positive comment.
• Beth Heller (3rd-year conservator student and intern at the Minnesota Historical Society) participated in the annual Angel's project, in which a dozen conservators traveled to Northern Minnesota and volunteered two day's labor at the Clearwater County Historical Society, a small tribal collection that cannot normally afford conservation.
• Marlan Green served as program chair for the Electronic Media Section.
• Betsy Haude (1997) serves as Assistant Chair for the Book and Paper Group.
• Shelly Smith (1997) is Treasurer for the Book and Paper Group.
• Chela Metzger (Kilgarlin Center faculty) was elected Treasurer of the Book and Paper Group.
• Karen Pavelka (Kilgarlin Center faculty) was elected AIC Director of Professional Education and Training.
• Jennifer Hain Teper (2000) is active in the Bylaws Committee and the Education and Training Committee.
• Erika Lindensmith (1996) sits on the Education and Training Committee.
• Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, (Kilgarlin Center Director) attended a number of Book and Paper Group sessions and the Electronic Media Section's Sunday morning presentations.

Nov 22nd 2004

The School of Information Celebrates the Opening of the Kilgarlin Center

On Friday, October 22, 2004, eighty guests gathered at the UT Austin Etter-Harbin Alumni Center to honor Judge William Wayne Kilgarlin for his $1m gift to the School of Information to establish the William and Margaret Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record. Professor Stanley Chodorow, Professor Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego, gave the opening address.

Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa and Dean Andrew Dillon	Judge Kilgarlin is presented a plaque by Dean Andrew Dillon
	Dean Andrew Dillon, Dr. Stanley Chodorow, and Judge Kilgarlin

Nov 16th 2004

Research Libraries Group Interviews Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa for RLG TopShelf

http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=10501

Aug 18th 2004

UT Austin School of Information Establishes William and Margaret Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record

School of Information receives $1m gift to endow work of the Kilgarlin Center.

AUSTIN, Texas - With a generous gift from former Supreme Court of Texas Justice William Wayne Kilgarlin, the School of Information will establish the William and Margaret Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record.

Through research and graduate education, the Center's mission is to advance knowledge and practice in the preservation of the record of human enterprise, creativity, and discovery. Building on the School of Information's top ranking programs in preservation management and conservation studies, the new Center will also address pressing concerns in digital preservation, and promote research, education, and public outreach in the broad area of cultural records management.

Andrew Dillon, Dean of the School of Information, notes: "The Kilgarlin Center is a tremendously exciting undertaking which will bridge traditional intellectual divisions to advance research and education on the significant preservation management problems facing our society." The Center's focus on preservation marks a significant step towards advancing a broader view of cultural records management that incorporates research in archival studies, conservation science and advanced digital technologies. Effective Sept. 1st, Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa will serve as Director of the Kilgarlin Center.

William Kilgarlin was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Harris County, 1959-60. From 1962-1978, Judge Kilgarlin practiced law in Houston. Subsequently, he served on the 215th Judicial District Court of Harris County from 1978-82. In 1983, Judge Kilgarlin was named to the Supreme Court of Texas, a position he held until 1988. From 1992-93, Judge Kilgarlin was appointed Court Master to formulate a plan for equality of Texas funding of public schools. Judge Kilgarlin is Of Counsel with Popp and Ikard LLP of Austin, Texas. He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Press Contact: Andrew Dillon, Dean, UT Austin School of Information 512-471-3828



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