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May 2011 — Conference

New Approaches to Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration

From 9th to 11th May 2011, there will be a start-up conference "New Approaches in Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration in Europe" in Horn, Austria.

 

conference board:
Joseph Schirò, Heritage Malta
István Kecskeméti, National Archives, Helsinki
René Larsen, Konservatorskolen, Copenhagen
Elissveta Moussakova, St.St.Cyril and Methodius National Library, Sofia
Patricia Engel, European Research Centre for Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration, Horn

 

see also: New Approaches to Book and Paper Conservation‑Restoration, edited by Patricia Engel, Joseph Schirò, René Larsen, Elissaveta Moussakova and Istvan Kecskeméti, Wien/Horn: Verlag Berger 2011, XXIV, 748 pp., ISBN 978-3-85028-518-6; 42,– Euro — available at Verlag Berger

 

The conference in Horn aims to bring together conservators, librarians and archivists, collection managers and many more professionals in the field of book and paper conservation-restoration who fight for the safeguarding and maintenance of our cultural book- and paper-heritage from all over Europe and even further countries. There will be over 50 speakers from 28 different countries. During the entire conference experts on funding programmes will also be present.

 

The main question the conference puts forward is: what is needed to preserve our heritage? From the papers handed in, one can already see the variety of problems ranging from conservation theories, to the use of materials which are still not available but are on the wish list, and to further education.

 

At the end of the conference the most pressing research topics which so far have not been answered need to be defined. The fact that there will be so many experts with such profound background available in one place is pre-designed to immediately build teams of researchers who would already know which programmes would possibly suit their demands (due to the presence of funding experts). The participants would leave the conference prepared to cooperate and do research in book and paper conservation-restoration.

See also other webpages about the conference.

 

Sponsors

Niederösterreich-Werbung
Die Niederösterreichische Versicherung

Parchment – latest assesment

16th – 20th May 2011, Horn, Austria

Further education course held by Dr. René Larsen,
Dorte Vestergaard Poulsen, Kathleen Muhlen Axelsson
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Conservation
Esplanaden 34, DK 1263 Copenhagen K

Workshop

The Workshop is especially directed to training conservators-restorers, curators, archivists and librarians in managing and monitoring of collections of parchments as well as the assessment of their damage in environmental ageing conditions. Participants will be taught the macroscopic and microscopic examination (visual assessment) techniques used to assess the "state of health" of parchment. The use the databases created by the IDAP, PDAP (Parchment Damage Assessment Programme), EWS (Early Warning System) and DUPDA (Digitised User-Friendly Parchment Damage Atlas) will be demonstrated.
The participants will be provided with materials and guidelines for the laboratory experiments.

 
Parchment books and charts belonging to historic libraries and archives of Horn will provide all sorts of parchments and their condition states for demonstration.
 

 

 

Contributions to Conferences and Summer Schools

 

Patricia Engel "Die Tilgungen im Ratmann Sakramentar – Hinweise auf die Traditionspflege im Kloster St. Michael um 1400„ contribution to 1000 Jahre St. Michael in Hildesheim – 16th-18th Sept. 2010, Hildesheim http://193.175.110.9/hornemann/german/St-Michael.php

 

Patricia Engel, Myriam Krutsch, Claudia Näser „Conservation - Restoration of Nubian Leather Finds from the 11th Century” Contribution to “Parchment and Leather, Torun, 21st – 23rd October 2010 http://www.zkpis.umk.pl/?Conference-2010,27

 

Patricia Engel “Books Convey not only Knowledge, but also Beauty” contribution to WORKS OF ART AND CONSERVATION SCIENCE TODAY, Thessaloniki, 26th – 28th November 2010 http://conservationscience-2010.web.auth.gr

 

Patricia Engel “Possibilities to treat Ink Corrosion in the Bound Book”, University of Zadar, Croatia, Department of Library and Information Transfer, Summer School in the Study of Historical Manuscripts, Zadar, 26th-30th September 2011 http://ozk.unizd.hr/summerschool2011/

 

Patricia Engel “Digital Images: A Valuable Scholar's Tool Or Misleading Material?” virtual contribution to International Conference on Integrated Information (IC-ININFO) 2011 Kos, Greece, 29th September – 3rd October 2011 http://www.icininfo.net/

 

Патриция Энгель, Статья для сборника "Грани памяти. Новейшие технологии сохранения и реставрации рукописей и печатного наследия" Октябрь 2011 г., г. Ереван