   
Preservation and Conservation Section
Strategic Plan
2004-2005
Mission
To facilitate the global exchange of information about preservation and conservation activities programmes and projects.
To advise, collaborate with, and support the IFLA PAC Core Activity.
To promote the importance of preserving the cultural and intellectual heritage within national and international contexts.
To develop publications and other tools that enable libraries to promote preservation policies and concerns locally, regionally and nationally.
Goals
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To promote among libraries, archives, museums, the general public and governments a better recognition and awareness of the importance of preservation and conservation of the world's cultural and intellectual heritage.
(Professional priorities: (a) Supporting the role of libraries in society; (g) Preserving our intellectual heritage; (h) Developing library professionals)
Actions
1.1. Encourage information professionals to persuade their governments to sign the UNESCO
Second protocol from 1999 and to encourage the formation of national Blue Shield committees.
1.2 Publish the proceedings of the Berlin 2003 conference, "Planning for the Best, Preparing for the Worst; Protecting Our Cultural Heritage from Disaster."
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To promote education, training, and continuing professional development in the field of preservation and conservation.
(Professional priorities: (h) Developing library professionals; (I) Promoting standards, guidelines and best practice)
Actions
2.1 Promote the development of programmes to meet the training needs of both conservators and preservation managers, especially those in developing countries, by planning a program or other event at the 2006 WLIC in Seoul Korea.
See also 1.2, 3.3, 3.4
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To promote "best practices" and standardization in library preservation and conservation activities
(Professional priorities: (i) Promoting standards, guidelines and best practice)
Actions
3.1 Continue to publish the Section ´s Newsletter in print and electronic form and develop the range of information available on the Section´s web site, collaborating whenever possible with International preservation news, produced by the IFLA PAC Core Activity.
3.2 Encourage section members to reproduce important section news in national and local newsletters.
3.3 Collaborate with IFLA´s Division 8 on Regional Activities in supporting initiatives to raise awareness of preservation needs in developing countries, and collaborate with the IFLA PAC Core Activity in holding a Seminar on Blue Shield and disaster preparedness in Trinidad andTobago in spring 2004.
3.4 Highlight the need for standards related to non-print media by holding a program on this topic at Buenos Aires in 2004 in collaboration with the AVM section.
3.5 With the collaboration of the IFLA PAC Core Activity, etablish and maintain in electronic form a register of preservation standards, guidelines and similar publications, indicating the availability of such publications in print and electronic form and in language translations.
3.6 Plan a program at the 2005 WLIC in Oslo on library storage facilities.
- To encourage and facilitate the establishment of national preservation strategies and programmes.
(Professional priorities: (a) Supporting the role of libraries in society; (g) Preserving our intellectual heritage)
Actions
4.1 In collaboration with the National Libraries Section, the IFLA PAC and CDNL (Conference
of Directors of National Libraries), conduct a survey of disaster plans at national libraries
and produce a report.
See also under 1 above.
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To press for development of solutions and methods for long-term preservation of library materials that are in digital form.
Professional priorities: (d) Providing unrestricted access to information; (g) Preserving our intellectual heritage; (I) Promoting standards, guidelines and best practice; (k) Representing libraries in the technological marketplace)
Actions
5.1 Together with the IT section, monitor developments and track progress in developing
mechanisms, policies, and practices toward long-term preservation of library materials in
digital form to determine appropriate means to press for solutions and methods.
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To promote the awareness of the issues of preservation management by cooperating with other relevant professional organizations both international (e.g., UNESCO, ICOM-CC, International Council on Archives), regional (e.g., ECPA, LIBER) and national (e.g., CLIR in the USA) in developing joint programmes, seminars and publications.
(Professional priorities: Supporting the role of libraries in society; (g) Preserving our intellectual heritage; (h) Developing library professionals; (I) Promoting standards, guidelines and best practice)
Actions
None proposed in this time period.
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