Program
Wednesday August 16, 2006
10:00～11:30
Morning guided tour
Guided tour of the National Diet Library including visiting the workshops of
the Preservation Division
13:00～16:20
Afternoon session: Preservation issues in Asia
- Welcome
- Nancy Gwinn, Chair of the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section, and Director of Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- Preservation education in Southeast Asia
- John Dean, ex-Director of the Department of Conservation and Preservation,
Cornell University Library, US
(Experienced educator in Southeast Asian countries, Editor of the “Library preservation and conservation tutorial Southeast Asia,” web-based tutorial tool) - Issues and future of preservation activities and collaboration in Southeast Asia
- Rujaya Abhakorn, ex-Professor of Chiang Mai University, Thailand
(Goodwill patron, UNESCO Memory of the World Programme) - Conservation of Asian documents on paper and palm- leaf
- O. P. Agrawal, Director General of the Indian Council of Conservation Institutes
(Leading Conservator, Conservation administrator) - Preservation cooperation in Nepal: from training to conservation and digitization of rolled palm leaf manuscripts
- Paper Conservators Asia Unlimited (PCAU) and National Diet Library
(PCAU:Conservator group working to aid conservation of cultural properties in Asian countries)
Speaker: Yukiko Saito, Director of the IFLA/PAC Regional Centre for Asia, National Diet Library
Thursday August 17, 2006
10:00～12:40
Morning session: Microfilming and digitization of documentary heritage in Asia
- IFLA/PAC Core Activities in Asia
- Christiane Baryla, Director of the IFLA/PAC International Focal Point, Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Microfilming and digitization of newspapers in China
- Li Chunming, Assistant Director of the Newspaper and Periodicals Department, National Library of China
- Preservation roles of reformatting: today, tomorrow, and the next day
- Colin Webb, Director of the IFLA/PAC Regional Centre for Oceania and Southeast
Asia, and Director of the Preservation Services, National Library of Australia
(Conservator, Editor of the “Guidelines for the preservation of digital heritage,” UNESCO) - Closing address
- Utsumi Keiya, Director General of the Acquisition Department, National Diet Library
Note: The venue will open 30 minutes before the events start.
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