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Preservation Fair in Pittsburgh



Come to Pittsburgh and learn about Saving Your Family Treasures.  Please
visit the Preservation Fair website www.pitt.edu/~olcpwg/presfair.html for
more details.

        See you at the Fair - Bernadette Callery


SAVING YOUR FAMILY TREASURES

Meet preservation professionals and learn tips and techniques to save your
heirlooms for future generations!  Bring books, photographs, letters,
paintings, textiles and other treasures for free preservation advice!

"Saving Your Family Treasures: Preservation Fair 2002," is a public
information event scheduled for Saturday, 23 February 2002, to be held at
the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.  Hours of the event
are 10 AM to 4 PM.

Visitors are invited to bring examples of objects and talk directly with
conservators about preservation options.  Visitors can also talk with
vendors of conservation supplies and services, attend a series of short
lectures on the importance of saving family records and pick up free
handouts and catalogs.

Featured speaker is Andrew Carroll, author of War Letters: Extraordinary
Correspondence from American Wars.  He will be joined by Dennis East,
University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center, Ron Baraff, Rivers of
Steel Heritage Area and Richard Cox, University of Pittsburgh Department of
Library and Information Science in a group of lectures on the importance of
preserving our personal histories.  1-3 PM. in the Carnegie Lecture Hall,
which you can enter through the Museum.

Free with Museum Admission.  Convenient visitor parking is available in the
Museum's six-level garage at Forbes Avenue and South Craig Street.

This event is co-sponsored by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the
Oakland Library Consortium.  For more information, visit our website at
www.pitt.edu/~olcpwg/presfair.html


Bernadette G. Callery, Museum Librarian
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA  15213-4080
Phone: 412-622-8870; FAX: 412-622-8837
Email: calleryb@carnegiemuseums.org

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