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FOREWORD

Turid Birkeland, Norwegian Minister of Cultural Affairs (from 25.10.96)

INTRODUCTION

Bendik Rugaas, Vicepresident, The Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO

PROCLAMATION

CONTRIBUTORS

OPENING STATEMENTS

Ingrid Eide, President, Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO
Åse Kleveland, Norwegian Minister of Cultural Affairs (until 25.10.96)
Henrikas Yushkiavitshus, Assistant Director-General, UNESCO
Robert Wedgeworth, President, IFLA
Jean-Pierre Wallot, Chairman, ICA

PART I: TO PRESERVE THE ORIGINALS

1 General guidelines to safeguard the originals
  Jan Lyall

2 The vanishing heritage of Africa
   Isaac M. Mabhikwa

3 From Old Nordic manuscripts to worldwide preservation programmes
   Jonas Palm

4 Memory of Iberoamerica: rescuing nineteenth century Latin American newspapers
   Virginia Betancourt

5 Preserving the traditional musical heritage in China
   Cai Liangyu

MEMORY OF THE WORLD CD ROMS

Preserving the Radziwil Chronicle
Valerii Leonov

The Prague Pilot Project
Adolf Knoll

Two CD ROMS from Bulgaria
Vera Gancheva

The Sana'a Koranic Fragments Project
Fathi Saleh

PART II: PRESERVATION AND ACCESS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

6  Northern lights: the Nordic approach to the Memory of the World
     Bendik Rugaas

7 Methods for long-time preservation of electronic information
     Ivar Fonnes

8   Access through the Internet: a new way of North-South documentary cooperation
     Niels Mark

9   Nordic examples of storage and transmission of integrated text and images
     Svein Arne Brygfjeld

10 Preservation and the silver screen
     Ray Edmondson

11 Safeguarding audio and video recordings in the long term
     Dietrich Schüller
     Plenary sesson: summary of discussion
     Chaired by Johan Mannerheim

PART III: LEGISLATION FOR PRESERVATION AND ACCESS IN A DIGITAL WORLD

12 Archival and related legislation
     Claes Gränström

13 Copyright and intellectual property
    Jon Bing

PART IV: A LOOK AT WORLD PRIORITIES

14 The United States Commission on Preservation and Access
    Deanna B. Marcum

15 Preserving for future access: The role of the European Commission on Preservation and Access
    Yola de Lusenet and Pieter J.D. Drenth

16 The perspective of the Libraries Programme of the European Commission
    A. Iljon

17 Memory of the World: preserving our documentary heritage
   Abdelaziz Abid

PART V: REGIONAL STRATEGIES

Plenary session: summary of discussion
Chaired by Mariam Kadir

PART VI: CONCLUSION

Comments by the Conference Rapporteur
Stephen Foster
Closing of the Conference
Bendik Rugaas

APPENDIX

Programme for the Conference

List of participants

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