The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) has announced the free release of new products serving the training needs of archivists, librarians, and museum and historical society professionals.
NEDCC is a nonprofit, regional conservation center located in Andover, Massachusetts offering services such as conservation of books, paper and photographs, workshops and conferences, surveys, publications, reference services, and disaster assistance.

The suite of new products includes:

dPlan: The Online Disaster Planning Tool, is used to write institutional disaster plans.

dPlan Lite, is  available from October 2, 2008:

www.dplan.org

Preservation 101 is a free distance-education course on preservation administration:

www.preservation101.org

Toolkit on Surveying Digital Readiness helps assess the preservation needs of digital holdings:

www.nedcc.org/resources/digtools.php

Toolkit on What's Wrong With This Picture contains readings and resources on preservation and digitization of photograph collections:

www.nedcc.org/resources/wwwtptools.php

Preservation Education Curriculum is an instructor’s guide for a semester-long preservation course for graduate programs in librarianship and archives:

www.nedcc.org/curriculum/lesson.introduction.php

The Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness (COSTEP) framework is a cooperative planning process for area-wide disasters:

www.nedcc.org/services/disaster.costep.php

To see a full list of nedcc's free preservation tools, go to:
www.nedcc.org/eblasts/NewPreservationTools.html

Source: The Northeast Document Conservation Center