Volume 18, Number 8
Dec 1994

IFLA Meeting on Library Preservation

[The following announcement was put on the Conservation DistList Feb. 20 by Ralph W. Manning of the National Library of Canada.]

A satellite meeting on "Library Preservation and Conservation in the 90s" will be held in Budapest, Hungary on August 15-17, 1995, at the National Szechenyi Library. This meeting is being organized by the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) Section on Conservation, in cooperation with the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Core Program. The meeting will take place immediately before the 61st IFLA Council and General Conference, which will take place in Istanbul from August 20 to 26.

There will be papers and discussions in plenary sessions as well as in smaller sections. Visits to book and paper conservation workshops will also be included in the program. An opening reception, a concert and a closing party will provide some relaxation and there will be an opportunity to enjoy some of the sights of Budapest and the countryside through tours being organized before and after the meeting.

Some of the subjects planned for the professional program:

• national libraries as museums of books and as living libraries at the same time--resolving contradictions (surrogate copies, new technologies, use of permanent paper);
• preventive conservation and disaster recovery;
• new concepts such as collection conservation and microenvironments;
• mass conservation: methods and dilemmas (disinfection, deacidification, strengthening of paper and books);
• international and regional efforts in preservation and access (the American and European Commissions on Preservation and Access; regional PAC centers; IFLA Section on Conservation; UNESCO Memory of the World program);
• regional problems and practices in preservation, conservation and training of conservators and librarians for preservation.

The meeting will be conducted in English. Registration is $180 US before April 30 and $220 after April 30. The program is being handled by Kult-Turist Ltd/OSZK-IFLA '95, H-1055 Budapest, Stollar Bela u. 3/B, Hungary (fax: +36 1 131 9768).

Ralph Manning is willing to fax or mail copies of the registration and hotel reservation form to people on this side of the Atlantic. Contact Ralph W. Manning, Secretary/Treasurer, IFLA Section on Conservation, National Library of Canada, 395 Wellington St., Ottawa, K1A 0N4, Canada (819/994-6879; fax 819/953-0291).