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Standing Committee Elections Completed

Bangkok

Programme In Bangkok

IFLA Medium Term Programme, 1998-2001

Comments, Queries, Suggestions?




Newsletter of the Section on Preservation and Conservation

Issue 9
June 1999
ISSN 1028-3714

This issue was prepared by Jean Whiffin, a member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Preservation and Conservation, and formerly Preservation Officer at the University of Victoria Library, Canada. It deals with activities in Amsterdam, August 1998, of the IFLA Section on Preservation and Conservation.

Standing Committee Elections Completed

The Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Preservation and Conservation will have 18 members for the 1999-2001 term. The complete list of Standing Committee members follows:

      1997-2001

  • M. Bremer-Laamanen (FINLAND)
  • Ms. Maria Luisa Cabral (PORTUGAL)
  • Ms. Jacqueline Dubois (FRANCE)
  • Ms. Elisabeth Eide (NORWAY)
  • Ms. Sophia K. Jordan (USA)
  • Mr. Johan Mannerheim (SWEDEN)
  • Mr. Ralph W. Manning (CANADA)
  • Mr. John H. McIlwaine (UK)
  • Ms. Olga Perminova (RUSSIA)
  • Ms. Maria Skepastianu (GREECE)
  • Ms. Jean I. Whiffin (CANADA)
  • Mr. C. de Wolf (NETHERLANDS)

      1999-2003

  • Ms. Svetlana Dobrusina (RUSSIA)
  • Ms. Nancy Gwinn (USA)
  • Ms. Francisca Hernández (SPAIN)
  • Mr. Toru Koizumi (JAPAN)
  • Ms. Sylvie Le Ray (FRANCE)
  • Ms. Marie-Lise Tsagouria (FRANCE)

This excellent roster represents 13 different countries. The Section's executive has noted, however, that the continued lack of representation from the developing world will, as always, require extra diligence to ensure that the needs of IFLA's regions are met with regard to preservation and conservation.

Bangkok

The 65th IFLA Council
and General Conference
20-28 August 1999

Plans for the 1999 IFLA conference are well under way. The Thai Organizing Committee is looking forward to welcoming delegates to wonderful Bangkok.

The theme of this year's conference is:

  • Libraries as Gateways to an Enlightened World
Information about the IFLA Conference in Bangkok can be found on the IFLANET WWW server at
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/65intro.htm

or from:

IFLA Headquarters

P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH, The Hague
The Netherlands
Tel. 0031-70-3140884
Fax 0031-70-3834827
E-mail: IFLA.HQ@IFLA.NL

or from:

SPAFA

81/1 Si-Ayutthaya Road
Samsen, Theves
Bangkok 10300 THAILAND
Tel: +662 280-4022-9
Fax: +662 280-4030
E-mail: spafa@ksc.th.com

Section On Preservation And Conservation

The Standing Committee of the Section on Preservation and Conservation will hold two business meetings during the Bangkok conference. Observers are welcome!!

Standing Committee I:
Saturday August 21, 09:00 - 11:50

Standing Committee II:
Friday August 27, 10:30 - 12:20

Programme In Bangkok

Tuesday, August 24, 09:00-11:20

Collection Preservation Management An Approach To Complement Item-By-Item Treatment Policie

    Introduction SONJA JORDAN (University of Notre Dame, USA)

    Algunos planes nacionales de preservación en Sudamerica MARIA ANTONIETA VICTORIA SAPORTA (National Library of Chile)

    The role of the joint IFLA/ICA Committee on Preservation in Africa (JICPA) in preservation programmes in Africa GABRIEL ALEGBELEYE (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)

    Matching preservation decisions with collection development policy GALINA KISLOVSKAYA (IFLA PAC Programme, Eastern Europe and the CIS, M. I. Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russian Federation)

    Collections care in Southeast Asia: conservation and the need for the creation of micro-environments JOHN DEAN (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA)

Thursday August 26, 13:00-17:00

Workshop: Tactics For Preservation

    Fitness for purpose: the role of stabilization in a collections conservation program DEBRA MCKERN (Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA)

    Macro and microenvironments at the British Library HELEN SHENTON (British Library, London, UK)

    Conditions of storing documents as the chief means of preserving library holdings: from the experience of the Russian State Library OLGA PERMINOVA and TATJANA STEPANOVA (Russian State Library, Moscow, Russian Federation)

    Mass disinfection of documents affected by microorganisms: from work experience

SVETLANA DOBRUSINA and TATIANA VELIKOVA (National Library of Russia, Russsian Federation)

IFLA Medium Term Programme, 1998-2001

During 1996-1997, the professional groups of IFLA established their goals for the next four years. The achievement of these goals is the aim of the IFLA Medium Term Programme (MTP) 1998-2001. The collective MTP document tells the worldwide library community what IFLA is doing to advance the availability of information in today's environment. This is an important message for IFLA.

One of the strengths of IFLA and its organization is the diversity of issues treated by the many IFLA professional groups. While that continues, the IFLA Professional Board drafted the following statement to serve as IFLA's main focus for goals and activities.

    IFLA's strategic direction over the next four years will focus on the electronic environment as it affects IFLA's objective to promote librarianship globally, particularly through the provision of equal access to information, literacy programmes, and preservation of the world's documentary heritage.

The MTP for each professional group is divided into three parts: The Scope, Goals for the period 1998-2001, Activities divided into 2 two-year periods. The following Scope statement was approved for the Section on Preservation and Conservation:
    The Section is concerned with the preservation of the world's documentary heritage. It provides an international forum for all types of libraries to exchange, develop and disseminate knowledge and experience dealing with theories, policies and practices for the preservation of all recorded knowledge, regardless of the storage medium. The Section maintains a close working relationship with the IFLA PAC Core Programme.

The Scope and Goals were published in the official Medium Term Program and can be found on IFLANET at the following URL:
http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s19/sconsv.htm

The Action Plan, however, was prepared for the first two-year period only, recognizing the importance of immediacy in Action Plans.

It is now time to prepare a new Action Plan for 2000-2001 and the Standing Committee of the Section on Preservation and Conservation will be preparing this new Action Plan at its meetings in Bangkok. Suggestions for items to be included in this Action Plan are welcomed and should be sent to any member of the Standing Committee.

Comments, Queries, Suggestions?

Section on Conservation

Chair:
Ralph W. Manning

National Library of Canada
Ottawa K1A 0N4, CANADA
Tel: 613-943-8570
Fax: 613-947-2916
E-mail: RALPH.MANNING@NLC-BNC.CA

Secretary:
Ms Maria Skepastianu

65 Egnatia Str.
54631 Thessaloniki
Greece

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