Date: 
31 August, 20092 September, 2009
Location: 
Istituto centrale per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e librario, Via Milano,76 — 00184, Rome, Italy
Description: 

There were 2 days of presentations that highlighted particular aspects and issues related to Preservation.

The first day featured preservation and conservation activities in several major and famous places in Rome:

The Vatican Library (http://www.vaticanlibrary.va), The Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e la Conservazione del Patrimonio Archivistico e Librario (http://www.icpal.beniculturali.it) and the Library of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana (http://www.lincei.it/). 

The second day included two sessions, focusing respectively on
topics associated with robotic mass digitisation of cultural heritage
library materials, and on exhibition advances for cultural heritage
library material.

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Proceedings

Monday August 31 

 

Welcome and Introductions

  • Armida Batori, Director of the ICPAL

  • Maurizio Fallace, Director General for Library Heritage in Italy (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali) (Italiano)

  • Monsignore Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

  • Per Cullhed, Chair of IFLA P&C Section

  • Christiane Baryla, IFLA-PAC Core Activity Director

The Vatican Library

  • Introduction / by Monsignore Cesare Pasini, Prefect (English/Italiano

  • The Laboratory of Restoration of the Vatican Library / by Dr Angela Nuñez Gaitán, Restorer (English/Italiano) and Dr Marta Grimaccia, Restorer (English/Italiano)

  • The use of photography for manuscripts preservation / by Irmgard Schuler, Photographer, Photographic Laboratory of the Vatican Library (English/Italiano)

The Istituto centrale per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e librario

  • Structure and mission of the Institute / by Armida Batori, Director of the ICPAL (English)

  • Presentation of “The PREM Project”: the Italian emergency plan for archives and libraries / by Gloria Cirocchi, Assunta Di Febo, Paola F. Munafò (English)

  • A success story: two “codex” discovered
    in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily Canal) / by
    Ignazio Lodato, Restorer, Biblioteca centrale della Regione siciliana (Italiano)

Library of the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana

  • Preventive conservation in the Library of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana: projects and experiences / by Ebe Antetomaso, Chief Librarian for the Ancient printed books section (Italiano)

Tuesday September 1

 

Robot digitization and preservation in museums and libraries 

  • Robotic mass digitization of cultural heritage materials / by Stephan Tratter, Treventus Mechatronics GmbH (English)

  • The possibilities for robotic scanning on cultural heritage materials / by Marcel Aldewereld, Kirtas Europe (English)

  • Book scanning solutions: features and benefits with a special focus on scanning quality / by Joerg Vogler, President of Zeutschel GmbH (English)

  • Mass digitization of rare books – important aspects of conservation / by Irmhild Schäfer, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (English)

  • The use of robots for digitization of cultural heritage materials / by Philippe Vallas, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Exhibition advances for cultural heritage library materials

Moderator: Lieve Watteeuw, Coordinator of ICOM-CC 

  • Exhibitions- preservation and meaning /by Per Cullhed  (English)

  • The experiences of a web based monitoring system for climate control at Uppsala University  Library / by Lars Björdal, Uppsala University Library  (English)

  • "Visual Storage" Exhibition Techniques and other Developments at the Library of Congress / by Dianne van der Reyden,
    Library of Congress (
    English)

Thanks and Summary / by Per Cullhed and Christiane Baryla 

 

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