Citation
(1998), "Changes at IFLA-PAC regional centres", Asian Libraries, Vol. 7 No. 10. https://doi.org/10.1108/al.1998.17307jab.011
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1998, MCB UP Limited
Changes at IFLA-PAC regional centres
Changes at IFLA-PAC regional centres
There have been several developments at the regional centres of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' Core Programme on Preservation and Conservation (IFLA-PAC).
On 1 April Ryuji Yonemura, of the National Diet Library, became director of the Central and East Asia PAC, succeeding Yoshitaka Nishimiya. Cliff Law has succeeded Jan Lyall as director of the South East Asia and Pacific PAC. Mr Law heads the National Initiatives and Collaboration Branch of the National Library of Australia.
Established in 1986, PAC is one of two core programmes that IFLA created to tackle issues of preservation and access. Its main objective is to raise awareness of preservation issues, while its partner programme, Universal Access to Publications (UAP), deals primarily with issues of access. Three times a year PAC publishes International Preservation News, which is distributed free of charge through the six regional centres. Articles in English, French or Spanish are summarised in the two other languages. Each issue deals with a specific theme. The May 1998 issue discusses photography preservation and digitisation. A new version of the IFLA Principles for the Care and Handling of Library Materials will be available shortly.
For more information about the Core Programme on Preservation and Conservation or its projects contact: Marie-Thérese Varlamoff, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, IFLA PAC, 2 rue Vivienne, F-75084 Paris, France. Fax: +33 1 4703 7725; E-mail: marie-therese.varlamoff@bnf.fr