This is an announcement for the paper "The reconstruction formula for Banach frames and duality" by Daniel Carando, Silvia Lassalle, and Pablo Schmidberg. Abstract: We study conditions on a Banach frame that ensures the validity of a reconstruction formula. In particular, we show that any Banach frames for (a subspace of) $L_p$ or $L_{p,q}$ ($1\le p < \infty$) with respect to a solid sequence space always satisfies an unconditional reconstruction formula. The existence of reconstruction formulae allows us to prove some James-type results for atomic decompositions: an unconditional atomic decomposition (or unconditional Schauder frame) for $X$ is shrinking (respectively, boundedly complete) if and only if $X$ does not contain an isomorphic copy of $\ell_1$ (respectively, $c_0$). Archive classification: math.FA math.CA Mathematics Subject Classification: 41A65, 42C15, 46B10, 46B15 Remarks: 16 pages Submitted from: slassall@dm.uba.ar The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1101.2430 or http://arXiv.org/abs/1101.2430