Tuesday,
26 September

Registration - Hall of the Karmina Palace Hotel

20 : 00

Welcome Cocktail - Gardens

Wednesday,
27 September

9 : 00

Registration - Hall of the Karmina Palace Hotel

10 : 00

Opening of the Conference
in Karmina Salon

  • Mr Carlos Salazar Silva, Rector of the University of Colima
  • Mrs Marie-Thérèse Varlamoff, Representative of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA/PAC)
  • Mrs Dato' Habibah Zon Yahaya, Director-General, National Archives of Malaysia, Representative of the International Council on Archives
  • Mr Bendik Rugaas, Chairman of the Memory of the World International Advisory Committee
  • Mr Fernando Moreno Peña, Governor of Colima
  • Mr Alain Modoux, Assistant Director-General a.i. for Communication and Information, UNESCO
  • H. Exc. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Léon, President of Mexico

  • 11 : 00

    Celebration of First Day Stamp Issue by the Mexican Post Office on the occasion of the 2nd International Memory of the World Conference

    11 : 15

    The sentinels of silence. Introduction recorded by Carlos Fuentes

    11 : 45

    Coffee break

    Access to our Documentary Heritage

    12 : 00

    Preserving and Sharing Access to our Documentary Heritage by Abdelaziz Abid, Programme Specialist, UNESCO and Guy Petherbridge, Director, Ausheritage, Australia - in Karmina Salon

    General discussion about the Programme

    13 : 00

    Lunch - in Bugambilias Restaurant

    14 : 00

    Standards for Preservation and Access by George Boston, Milton-Keynes, UK Memory of the World Sub-committee on Technology - in Karmina Salon

    14 : 30

    Bückeburg Conservation Procedure for Modern Archival Paper; the Improved Vienna Method by Klaus Dieter Vogt, Bückeburg, Germany - in Karmina Salon

    15 : 00

    From Analogue to Digital by Dietrich Schüller, Director of the Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

    15 : 30

    Multilingual Access to Documentary Heritage by Mokthar Ben Henda, Institut supérieur de documentation, Tunis

    16 : 00

    Coffee break

    16 : 30

    Collection, Use, Preservation and Dissemination of Oral Traditions and Indigenous Knowledge: The Nigerian Experience by Cornelius Adepegba, Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

    17 : 00

    The Göttingen Gutenberg Bible goes digital: Digitization of cultural heritage and history primary resources at Göttingen State and University Library by Norbert Lossau, Head of the Center of Digitization (GDZ) and Martin Liebetruth, Digital Imaging Specialist, Göttingen State and University Library

    17 : 30

    On the Way from the Silk Road to the Internet: The Berlin Turfan Collection and the Digital Turfan Archive by Claudius Naumann, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Germany

    18 : 00

    General discussion on preservation and access

    19 : 00

    Opening of Exhibition - in Santiago Salon

    20 : 00

    Reception - Dinner - Ballet Folklórico de la Universidad de Colima - Maya Theatre (open air)

    Thursday,
    28 September

    Pilot projects and the Memory of the World Register

    9 : 00

    The Memory of the World Register: Review of Selection Criteria by Ray Edmonson, National Film and Sound Archives, Canberra, Australia and Mrs Ingunn Kvisterøy, Deputy Secretary-General, Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO, Oslo, Norway

    Photographic Collections in Latin America and the Caribbean by Pía Rodríguez, Director of the National Paper Conservation Center, Caracas, Venezuela

    Memoria Mundi Bohemica by Adolf Knoll, Deputy Director, National Library of the Czech Republic

    Memoria de Iberoamerica (Newspaper collections) by Yanira Feo, Director of Technical Processing, National Library, Caracas, Venezuela

    The Archives of Repression in Paraguay by Mrs Rosa Palau, Chief archivist, Documentation Centre and Archives for the Protection of Human Rights, Supreme Court of Justice, Asunción, Paraguay

    Slave Trade Archives by Abdelaziz Abid, Programme Specialist, UNESCO

    Memory of Alexandria by Mrs Beverely Butler, Institute of Archaeology, London, United Kingdom and Mrs Heba Aziz, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

    11 : 00

    Coffee Break

    11 : 30

    Poster session on project proposals
    This session is devoted to project proposals and their matching with potential funding sources.

  • Mr Polad Byul Byulogly, Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan
  • Mrs Stella González Cicero, General National Archives, Mexico
  • Mr Stephane Ipert, Center of Book Conservation, Arles, France
  • Mrs Rosa María Fernández, University Center of  Research in Librarianship, UNAM, Mexico
  • Mrs Georgina Olivetto, University of Buenos Aires
  • Ms Elmelinda Lara and Mrs Kathleen Helenese-Paul, University of the West Indies Library

  • 13 : 00

    Lunch - in Bugambilias Restaurant

    14 : 30

    Regional priorities in safeguarding and Access to documentary heritage
    in Karmina Salon

    Promemoria - Preservation and access in Latin America and the Caribbean by Mrs Lourdes Blanco, Adviser, Conservplan Programme, Caracas, Venezuela

    Regional Memory of the World Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean by Mrs Maria Elena Porras P., Director, Historical Archives, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador

    Regional Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific by Mrs Dato' Habibah Zon Yahaya, Director-General, National Archives of Malaysia and Ray Edmonson, National Film and Sound Archives, Canberra, Australia

    16 : 00

    Coffee break

    Regional priorities in safeguarding and Access to documentary heritage

    16 : 30

    JICPA: Joint IFLA/ICA Committee on Preservation in Africa by Musila Musembi, Director, National Archives and Documentation Service, Kenya

    The UNESCO Regional Centre for Information Technology Colima University and the Memory of the World Programme by Mrs Lourdes Feria Basurto, Director, the UNESCO Regional Centre for Information Technology, Colima University, Mexico

    17 : 30

    General Discussion

    20 : 30

    Dinner - in Bugambilias Restaurant

    Friday,
    29 September

    9 : 00

    Professional and cultural visits : Visit of the Colima University Museum for Archaeology, buses leave at 9:20, 9:50 and 10:20

    13 : 00

    Lunch - in Bugambilias Restaurant

    14 : 00

    EVIDENCE! Europe Reflected in Archives - European Cities of Culture in 2000 by Arne Skivenes, Project Chairman and leader of the Bergen City Archive, Norway

    14 : 30

    The US Commission on Preservation and Access by Mrs Deanna B. Marcum, President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), USA

    15 : 00

    Endangered Documentary Heritage and the Blue Shield Programme by Mrs Marie-Thérèse Varlamoff, IFLA/PAC, Paris - in Karmina Salon

    15 : 30

    Session on Media
    How to draw attention of media to issues addressed by the Memory of the World Programme?
  • Promoting awareness
  • Promoting ownership
  • Promoting action
    Chair: Bendik Rugaas

  • 16 : 30

    Coffee break

    17 : 00

    Summing up Session: Conclusion - Mrs Lourdes Blanco, Ray Edmonson

    17 : 30

    Closing of the 2nd International Memory of the World Conference

  • Mr Carlos Salazar Silva, Rector of the University of Colima
  • Mr Alain Modoux, Assistant Director-General, UNESCO
  • Mr Jorge Cabrera Bohorquez, Member of the Memory of the World International Advisory Committee
  • Mr Bendik Rugaas, Chairman of the Memory of the World International Advisory Committee
  • Mr Fernando Moreno Peña, Governor of Colima

  • 20 : 00

    Fare-well Dinner - Open air concert organized by the Colima University - Gardens

      


    - PROGRAMME FOR ACCOMPANYING PERSONS -

    Wednesday
    27 September

    9 : 00

    Visit of the University Archeological Museum, Manzanillo

    20 : 00

    Folkloric Ballet of Colima University, Maya Theater (Open air)

    Thursday
    28 September

    9 : 00

    Departure to Colima

    10 : 00

    Regional University Museum of History

    11 : 10

    University Museum of Art

    11 : 40

    Museum of Popular Arts "Teresa Pomar"

    12 : 30

    Return to Manzanillo