/417 Breaking New Ground in Fostering Preservation: The Society of American Archivists' Preservation Management Training Program Tyler O. Walters In 1991 the Society of American Archivists (SAA) received a $600,609 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Pres- ervation and Access to launch the SAA Preservation Management Training Program (PMTP). This is the largest grant the NEH has awarded to a professional association for continuing education programming. The PMTP was a three-year nationwide program in which forty-four archival adminis- trators were trained in establishing and maintaining comprehensive archival preservation management programs. The program's pioneering aspects are significant to the future of preservation education and training. The curricu- lum advocates integrating preservation administration into all facets of the management of archives. Moving archival preservation away from ad hoc decisions to well-planned management strategies is the program's underlying philosophy. The training assignments are also designed to build elements of a functioning, tailor-made archival preservation program for the student's employing institution prior to graduation. The SAA Preservation Manage- ment Training Program is unique in professional education and training for library and archives management, and has created a benchmark for future training programs in both fields. ontinuing education for information has resulted in the NEH-funded Preser- professionals in the area of preservation is vation Intensive Institute, a one-week receiving a great deal of attention today, program of courses aimed at the midca- and is resulting in the growth of new work- reer preservation administrator. The first shops, institutes, and university-based such institute was conducted in the sum- programs, as well as a new base of litera- mer of 1992 at the University of Pitts- ture. One of several recent efforts to edu- burgh and addressed not just library pres- cate and train preservation administrators ervation needs but those belonging to the TYLER O. WALTERS is University Archivist, Iowa State University. The author thanks Evelyn Frangakis, Paul Conway, Teresa Brinati, and the Iowa State University Library for its continued support. The author's commentary offered at the 1994 SAA Annual Meeting formed the basis for this article. Manuscript received December 16,1994; accepted for publication June 15,1995.