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[Richard Minsky <minsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   As a newcomer to this list I'm trying to catch up on the 
past few months (things happen very quickly here!), and have 
been browsing search patterns thru palimpsest. There was some 
discussion in July about storing and exibiting artists' books, 
and yesterday Rebecca Stone had some hand-ling q's (I often use 
latex gloves inside cloth ones). 
   It made me think of Mindell Dubansky, Preservation Librarian 
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mindy gave a talk on 
preserving and exhibiting artists' books at the Center for Book 
Arts' 1990 conference (the proceedings are available from the 
Center). She gives workshops on this subject all over the 
country, at symposia and as part of university curricula. I 
just called her and gave her this list address. I think anybody 
who runs a program in this area might want to talk to her about 
doing a workshop for them. She's got a wealth of information, 
and has handled and catalogued books and book objects of every 
period (she's gone through all the collections at the Met and 
catalogued the books there for her archive, with information 
about their bindings, which had never been done). She's at the 
museum (212 879-5500, x-3220).