An open seminar on the documentary heritage damaged by the Indian Ocean Tsunami will be held on December 6, 2005. It will be a good opportunity to figure out how Japan and other countries will be able to support the recovery from the damage through their cooperation with the IFLA relief program as well as to raise awareness of disaster prevention. 

Program:

• Keynote address: The Disaster Program of the IFLA PAC*
       Marie-Thérèse Varlamoff, Director, IFLA PAC International Focal Point
   
• Report of a country damaged by the Indian Ocean Tsunami I: Indonesia
       Dady P. Rachmananta, Director of the National Library of Indonesia
   
• Report of a country damaged by the Indian Ocean Tsunami II: Sri Lanka
      Upali Amarasiri, Director General of the National Library and Documentation
      Centre of Sri Lanka
   
• Restoration of soaked and muddy land ledgers in Banda Aceh, Indonesia
       Isamu Sakamoto, Paper Conservator, Director of the Tokyo Restoration and 
       Conservation Center
   
• Recent activities of the IFLA PAC Regional Centre for Asia
       Masaki Nasu, Director of the IFLA PAC Regional Centre for Asia, National 
       Diet Library

(* IFLA PAC: IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation)