Content tagged Preservation and Conservation
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- IFLA PAC Centres in Qatar and Russia - Exchange of experience
The extensive PAC network, focused around the IFLA PAC Centres, has a wide range of expertise concerning preservation and conservation as well as safeguarding cultural heritage. The IFLA PAC...
News - 8 August 2019
Tags: Cultural heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- PAC Centres developing new capacity building efforts
IFLA’s Preservation and Conservation Centres play a valuable role in IFLA’s work to safeguard cultural heritage. By bringing together experience and expertise from...
News - 26 June 2019
Tags: Cultural heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation
- Executive Guide on Digital Preservation released
Digital records are vital assets of any organisation, and their preservation is the responsibility of managers and decision makers at all levels. The Executive Guide on Digital Preservation ...
News - 21 May 2019
Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, PERSIST, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO
- Preserving and Promoting the Igbo Language in Libraries
2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Languages. IFLA has been celebrating and promoting the year, sharing stories of libraries from all over the world, which are contributing to the...
News - 21 May 2019
Tags: Cultural heritage, Indigenous Language, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO
- Protecting Cultural Property - The Hague Convention and its two Protocols
Last week IFLA attended the International Conference on the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention hosted by UNESCO in Geneva, Switzerland. The Conference...
News - 8 May 2019
Tags: Cultural heritage, culture heritage, Disaster risk, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO
- International Conference on the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention
UNESCO has with support from the Government of Switzerland organised this international conference on protecting cultural property, in particular against the threats posed by conflict and...
Event - 24 April 2019
Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO
- IFLA/PAC Training Course: Book Binding Preservation
The IFLA/PAC at the Qatar National Library invites all paper and book conservators and conservation technicians from libraries, cultural institutions and museums in Qatar and the Arab world to a 5...
News - 2 April 2019
Tags: book binding, Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, documentary heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Qatar
- UN report: 10th anniversary of the mandate in cultural rights
To mark the 10th anniversary of the mandate on cultural rights and the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights has...
News - 6 March 2019
Tags: Cultural heritage, cultural rights, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO
- UNESCO Global Policy Forum on Preservation of Documentary Heritage for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
The Forum will focus on disaster risk reduction and management as a key strategy for the sustainable preservation of documentary heritage by the concerned memory institutions (archives, libraries...
Event - 29 November 2018
Tags: Cultural heritage, Disaster risk reduction, documentary heritage, DRR, Forum, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, UNESCO
- Qatar National Library and UNESCO: Practical Methods for the Scientific Examination of Library Objects
Within the framework of the agreement signed between Qatar National Library and UNESCO, “Supporting Documentary Heritage Preservation in the Arab Region,” and in cooperation...
Event - 25 October 2018
Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, QNL, UNESCO, Workshop, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Qatar National Library and UNESCO support Arab Documentary Heritage Preservation
Qatar National Library (QNL) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have signed an agreement to implement a joint project entitled ‘Supporting...
News - 24 September 2018
Tags: Cultural heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Qatar, UNESCO, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- Meet the IFLA Team - The work on IFLA's PAC Centres
Come by the IFLA Booth and meet the IFLA team! From 11.00-12.00 Tanja Clausen, Policy and Advocate Officcer will be in the IFLA Booth to talk about IFLA's work with the PAC...
Event - 15 August 2018
Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, IFLA Team, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Social
- Meet the IFLA Team - IFLA's engagement with UNESCO on cultural heritage
Come by the IFLA Booth and meet the IFLA team! From 13.30-16.00 Tanja Clausen, Policy and Advocate Officcer will be in the IFLA Booth to talk about IFLA's engagement with UNESCO on...
Event - 15 August 2018
Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Social, UNESCO
- Preservation and Conservation Section and PAC Centres Joint Business Meeting
08.00 - 10.30 Joint Business meeting of the Preservation and Conservation Section and the Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC). Conference participants are...
Event - 15 August 2018
Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, Meeting, PAC, Preservation and Conservation
- Session 167 Planning for newsprint, now and into the future for paper media - Preservation and Conservation joint with News Media
16.00 - 18.00 Presentations: Preservation and Conservation of Newsprint on National Press Monument: An Effort to Preserve Indonesian Journalism History by Labibah Zain,...
Event - 15 August 2018
Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Inidgenous, news media, Newspapers, Newspapers, Newsprint, PAC, Preservation and Conservation
- Session 160 Planning digital preservation: in for the long run - Preservation and Conservation with Information Technology
13.45 - 15.45 Presentations: PERSIST - The shared challenge of long-term preservation by Ingrid Parent, University of British Columbia, Canada Preparing to...
Event - 15 August 2018
Tags: Conference, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Infornation Technology, PAC, Preservation, Preservation and Conservation, SI, Preservation and Conservation
- Preservation and Conservation Business Meeting 2 (WLIC)
08:00 - 10:30 The Preservation and Conservation Section’s second business meeting is taking place on 27 August 2018. Discussions will focus on several areas of the sections’s...
Event - 15 August 2018
Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, Meeting, PAC, Preservation and Conservation, Preservation and Conservation
- Session 124: Fragile! Careful Handling Required: Manuscript housing, conservation and metadata documentation for access
16.00 - 18.00 In 2017, an IFLA workshop on developing metadata standards for palm leaf manuscripts highlighted the importance of taking a more holistic approach to these rare, and often...
Event - 15 August 2018
Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural heritage, PAC, Palm Leaf Manuscript, Preservation and Conservation, rare books, Seminar