The online webinar, ‘Future Memory: Challenges and opportunities for rare books and special collections from conservation, preservation and discovery angles – projects from individual countries in the Asia – Oceania region’, took place on 2 September 2024.

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Poster of the event

This webinar was planned and organised in collaboration with IFLA Regional Division Asia Oceania, IFLA Rare Books and Special Collections, IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section, ALIA Rare Books and Special Collections, and The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc.The distinguished panel of speakers, along with each of their presentations, were:

  • Daw Pyone Pyone Aye, National Library of Myanmar – Preserving Rare Collections: Acquisition Methods and Challenges in Myanmar Libraries
  • Udaya Cabral, National Library of Sri Lanka – Challenges in the Preservation and Conservation of Palm Leaf Manuscripts and Rare Books in Tropical Sri Lanka
  • Tian Zhou Ling, National Library of China – Collections and Conservation in National Library of China

The webinar was chaired by Maggie Patton, Head of Collection Acquisition & Curation at The State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Other members of the organising team included Dr Nicholas A. Sparks from the University of Adelaide, Simon Farley from the University of Queensland and Gulcin Cribb, a member of the Regional Division Asia Oceania.

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253 people registered to attend the webinar and 93 people attended. The webinar was recorded and can be viewed in the link here. It was wonderful to see many interesting questions at the end of the webinar from participants all around the world.