2nd announcement conference `Preservation Management'

[Anne Muller <ECPA _at__ bureau.knaw.nl>]

With apologies for crossposting.

                      SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

           `Preservation management: between policy and practice'

European conference organized by 
European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA)
Core Programme on Preservation and Conservation, International Federation
of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA-PAC)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands)
The Hague, 19-21 April 1999

In recent years the realization has grown that in order to guarantee
continued access to their collections, archives and libraries have to
develop overall preservation policies that fit in with general principles
of collection management. The approach has shifted from traditional
conservation of single items to large-scale preventive measures and
substitution programmes.

Preservation now covers a wide range of activities, from storage and
handling to microfilming and digitization. The challenge for libraries and
archives is to define preservation policies in which each of these methods
has its place. 

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, IFLA-PAC and the ECPA are jointly organizing a
3-day conference, which will focus on organizational, financial and
managerial aspects of preservation. The central theme will be the
interaction between theory and practice.

Case studies will be presented that are illustrative of efforts in various
European countries and should shed light on such questions as how one plans
and costs a large preservation project, and how a preservation programme
can be realized step by step.


PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME:

Monday 19 April
9.00 - 12.30
Bendik Rugaas (National Library of Norway)
Key-note address

Jan Merrill-Oldham (Harvard University Library)
Preservation programs scaled for impact: beyond platitudes

Antonius Jammers (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz)
Bewahrung des Überlieferten: Bestandserhaltung in der Staatsbibliothek zu
Berlin 

Monday 19 April
14.00 - 17.00
Gabriella Albrecht-Kunszeri (National Archives of Hungary) and Beatrix
Kastaly (National Széchényi Library)
Developing preservation training of archive and library staff in Hungary

Jedert Vodopivec (Archives of the Republic of Slovenia)
Teamwork - is it possible?

Steen Bille Larsen (The Royal Library, Copenhagen)
Are the users and the staff a problem? - teaching preservation management
in The Royal Library, Copenhagen

George P. MacKenzie (Scottish Record Office)
The Blue Shield Initiative

Followed by RECEPTION


Tuesday 20 April
9.00 - 12.30 
Hans Jansen (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague)
Metamorfoze, the first years

Galina A. Kislovskaya (Library for Foreign Literature /IFLA-PAC Regional
Centre for Eastern Europe and the CIS, Moscow)
A good beginning makes a good ending?

Ewald Brahms (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
Ensure preservation and improve access: aspects of the DFG preservation
funding program

Frances McGee (National Archives of Ireland)
Preservation and access priorities: maps and other large documents

Peter Delbeke (Library of the Federal Parliament of Belgium)
Preservation management in Belgium: the dynamics of a pragmatic and
results-oriented approach

Tuesday 20 April
14.00 - 17.00 
Excursions


Wednesday 21 April
9.00 - 12.30 
Susan Herion (Swiss National Library)
Preservation projects in Switzerland

Maria Luísa Cabral (National Library of Portugal)
Learning to overcome anxiety when moving from preservation management
policy into practice

Marie-Lise Tsagouria (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
An on-site workshop for mechanised binding at the BNF: technical and
economic reasons

Mirjam M. Foot (The British Library)
Preservation of the British National Collection: changes in a changing
environment

Michael Moosberger (Canadian Council of Archives)
Assess, plan, act: the CCA Preservation Management Committee's structured
approach to the development of preservation management initiatives in
Canadian archives

Wednesday 21 April
14.00 - 16.00 
Panel discussion


COSTS AND REGISTRATION
The conference fee is ECU 150. For more information and registration
details, see the conference website at 
http://www.konbib.nl/pmc 
or contact the local organizer, Ms Barbara de Goederen at the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek in The Hague,
P.O. Box 90407
NL-2509 LK  THE HAGUE
The Netherlands
tel. ++31-70-314 03 48
fax  ++31-70-314 04 40
e-mail: barbara.degoederen _at__ konbib.nl

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