Date: Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Time: 9:30-10:45 CEST

  • 9:30 Opening address: Sónia Casquiço, Secretary of PRESCONS
  • 9:35-9:40 Introduction: Ornella Foglieni, Chair of PRESCONS
  • 9:40-10:10 Keynote Speech: Johanna Garnett, Manager, Disaster Risk
    Reduction and Resilience, South Australian Fire and Emergency Services
    Commission, South Australian State Government. PhD student at Charles Sturt
    University and member of the Torrens Resilience Initiative at Flinders University,
    Australia – Resilient Libraries: Safeguarding Knowledge in an Era of Disasters
  • 10:10-10:25 Speech 1: Tetsuro Kurahashi, Member of PRESCONS
    Director, IFLA PAC Regional Centre for Asia
    Library Counsellor, Acquisitions and Bibliography Department, National Diet
    Library – The importance of collaboration and establishing mutual support networks
    to improve disaster resilience
  • 10:25-10:40 Speech 2: Zhou Yi, Member of PRESCONS，Associate Professor，
    Head of Teaching and Research Section for Library Science ， School of
    Information Management，Sun Yat-sen University – Reflections on Constructing Evaluation Indicators for Natural Disaster Resilience of Chinese Libraries’ Special Collections
  • 10:40-10:45 Final remarks: Sónia Casquiço