The National Board of Directors would like to announce the appointment of Vinnie Peters as our new editor of the Restorer Magazine.

Vinnie is presently serving as interim editor and has done a fine job with the latest issue of our magazine. Vinnie has served the NCRS in many capacities in the past serving as President, Vice-President & National Activities Chairman, Regional Director and has also served as editor of the Restorer and was responsible for two issues when we had a gap between editors. He also served as co-editor along with Dennis Clark for our 25th Anniversary Edition Magazine. We are extremely excited and look forward to future issues of the Restorer Magazine. Please join me in welcoming Vinnie Peters as our new editor of the Restorer Magazine. He is presently working on the next issue of the magazine and is in need of technical articles and articles in general.

Restorer Editor
Vinnie Peters
32 Bridge Ave
Patchogue, NY 11772-2702
Email: restorereditor@ncrs.org

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

What follows is a set of general guidelines for submitting articles to The Restorer. Keep in mind these are guidelines or things I would like to see in article submissions.

Credits & Contacts: Please indicate if your submission is in pursuit of the NCRS Founders' Award®. If you send anything (Founders' Award® or not), we'll need to know your byline (name), your address along with your membership number. It's very important to have your telephone contact numbers (home, work, mobile, fax) along with an e-mail address when you forward an article for The Restorer. If you're using photos or other "art" (for example line drawings) taken or generated by someone else, we need to know whom that person is, so they can be credited in the article. We may also need to have approval from that individual in order to reproduce the respective art.

Article Size & Deadlines: The Restorer is a quarterly publication and for the most part, articles have no time value, but there is an exception and that happens to be event information. For those articles, we'll need to work out a deadline of some sort, so don't be shy: Contact the Editor! Articles that continue from one issue to another are not very effective, considering our quarterly publication schedule. We'll look at anything such as a simple tech tip to a major restoration article. We urge you to focus upon a single topic.
Article submissions to The Restorer may be made in the following ways:

SENDING TEXT

Article text can be sent as follows:
1) By way of mail or courier service (Fed Ex, UPS, etc.), on computer disk. MS Word.doc® is the preferred format, although we can translate some of the other less-used word-processing programs. If you’re submitting photos, the preferred format is RAW, however JPG files will work too. Please try to take the photos in the highest resolution possible. They can be submitted via email or CD. Please do not “embed” photographs in the articles, send them as separate files.

SENDING PHOTOGRAPHS

Photos can be sent as follows:
1) By way of mail or courier in either color or black and white. 5X7-inch (or larger) high contrast black and white is best, but we can make modest adjustments with graphic software. The truth is, we cannot create what isn't found in the original. The better the original quality, the better the end result.

2) By way of email, preferably in a RAW format JPG files will work also, to restorereditor@ncrs.org. Please keep in mind we prefer high resolution digital images. Please save your photos at as high a resolution as possible. In this case, bigger is definitely better. Check your digital camera settings!

LINE DRAWINGS OR GRAPHS

1) Line drawings, charts or graphs can be included in the electronic text. _____________________________________________________________

Please do not send irreplaceable original items. While we will make our best effort to return all applicable materials, we cannot be responsible for loss or damage during shipment. In addition, please remember that text or illustrations received by way of FAX aren't really suitable. Photocopied photographs are similarly, unusable.
Vinnie Peters