Documentary heritage

In this report, Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP) documents the destruction of Palestinian libraries, archives and museums, and mourns those archivists and librarians in the country who have been killed during the conflict.

Questionnaire to establish a diagnosis of the status of the issue in institutions

The present document has been drawn up on the basis of the following: "Guide to preserving bibliographical materials and archival documents on paper: General considerations" (2015), by the History Department of the Comprehensive Information Center of the Central University of Ecuador, "Guide to preventive measures for cultural heritage property in the event of the threat of earthquakes" (2011) and "Guide to preventive mea-sures for cultural heritage property in the event of volcanic eruptions" (2015), by the Na-tional Cultural Heritage Institute (INPC) and "Contingency Handbook: Preventive measures for cultural heritage property in the event of volcanic eruptions", by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage (2016). It has been prepared for the purpose of disseminating knowledge and promoting support in recovering archives (repositories of memory) of the province of Manabí, in the framework of the "Local Capacity-Building Project for the Emergency Conservation of Historical Archives in Areas Affected by the April 16 Earth-quake (16A)".

Preventive Conservation and Disaster Management Plan in Archives and Libraries. Last chapter dedicated to the protection of collections in case of emergencies and disaster management plan.

Much of the damage suffered by humanity's bibliographic and documentary heritage is the result of hydrometeorological and anthropogenic disasters. The lack of disaster prevention plans and programmes in Mexican libraries creates a need to develop and promote a culture of prevention, which must be addressed by disseminating the readily available information generated by organisations and institutions specialising in disaster prevention and the rescue of this heritage. The study presented here is based on a review of the literature in the field covering the period from 1998 to 2007.