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The Institution will design a course on management and conservation of documentary and bibliographic heritage for Latin American headquarters

The “José María Lafragua” Historical Library of the BUAP is part of the nine partners of the international project CODICIS: Strengthening capacities for the recovery and conservation of the documentary and bibliographic heritage of Latin America, co-financed by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union, whose mission is to train human resources for the conservation of archives and heritage libraries.

The project is made up of six Latin American institutions, two Spanish and one Italian; each one will be responsible for a work package. Where appropriate, the BUAP will design a course on management and conservation of documentary and bibliographic heritage for Latin American institutions.

To do this, an analysis of the reality of these headquarters will be carried out. Likewise, Latin American members will carry out a survey with well-known institutions to understand and define the conservation situation of archives and libraries in Mexico, Bolivia and Peru. This information will be discussed with the European partners to take advantage of their experience on the subject and put together a plan focused on the Latin American reality, detailed Mercedes Isabel Salomón Salazar, director of the “José María Lafragua” Historical Library.

The official said that the training for staff will be in two phases. In the first, 10 representatives of the Latin American partners will be chosen, who will be trained as teachers by the European headquarters. Subsequently, this same pilot course will be taught simultaneously in Latin American institutions, to impact 108 participants.

Teacher Salomón Salazar pointed out that the project will last 36 months and at the end of this the “José María Lafragua” Historical Library will be equipped with specialized personnel to continue teaching the course. “Once this pilot course is achieved and passes a quality review, we would be able to repeat it frequently to train those responsible for the care and conservation of files and documents.”

The CODICIS project will be coordinated by the Universidad Católica San Pablo, in Peru. The universities of Piura, Peru also participate; Panamericana, Guadalajara campus, Mexico; Bolivian Catholic “San Pablo” and Mayor of San Andrés, Bolivia; Universitat de Barcelona and International Consulting and Mobility Agency, Spain; as well as the Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy.

To achieve the main objective, to design and execute a specialization course in conservation and management of archives and heritage libraries, five specific objectives were defined: Develop the pedagogical and scientific methodology for the evaluation of the training of personnel in archive and library management with heritage content, which will focus on the Latin American countries of the six participating educational institutions.

Transfer of knowledge from higher education institutions (HEIs) of the European Union to Latin American ones; training in criteria for the classification and preservation of heritage documentary material, promoting international university cooperation, through a network; equipment of the beneficiary HEIs for the correct preservation and academic use of the documentary and bibliographic heritage; and promote international university cooperation in relation to heritage archiving, as well as the participation of other types of entities at the local level.

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Universities in America and Europe participate in the Codicis project, “Strengthening capacities for the Recovery and Conservation of Documentary and Bibliographic Heritage in Latin America”, co-financed by the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission.

The main objective of the Codicis project is to design and execute a specialization course in conservation and management of archives and heritage libraries and to implement accessible conservation and restoration laboratories for archives and documents.

The following partners participate in this project: the San Pablo Catholic University (Peru) – project coordinator, the University of Piura (Peru), the Universidad Panamericana-Campus Guadalajara (Mexico), the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico), the Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo (Bolivia), the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (Bolivia), the Incoma Agency (Spain) , the University of Barcelona (Spain) and the University of Catania (Italy).

At the beginning of the year, the initial meeting of the project was held to present the eight work packages: Pedagogical and scientific methodologies for heritage archiving, Design of the specialist course in conservation and management of archives and heritage libraries, Teacher training, Reformulation and local adaptation of the specialist course, Execution of the specialist course, Quality strategy – Presentation of the project management platform, Project dissemination strategy and Sustainability.

Importance

By University of Piura, were in the first virtual meeting: María José Andrade, director of the Library; Alberto Requena, professor at the Faculty of Humanities; and Sofía Wong, Director of Cooperation International.

The representatives of the UDEP They agree that with training and updating knowledge, a direct impact will be achieved on the community to help preserve the memory of our city and the region. Additionally, training can be extended to neighboring regions in the north of the country.

For her part, Sofía Wong adds that another important aspect is that the project funds will allow the acquisition of equipment for the digitization and conservation of ancient documents that are in the Library and the possibility of providing this service to other local entities.

“UDEP has carried out excellent educational, research and social outreach work in the Piura region. Its prestige has also allowed it to be favored with different patrimonial donations that it currently preserves and that are distributed in different spaces on its campus,” says María José Andrade.

“Among the collections housed in the UDEP Library is an ancient collection with publications from between the 16th and 20th centuries; In addition, photographic and philatelic collections, popular art, collections of Peruvian intellectuals such as José Antonio del Busto that includes manuscripts, such as an unpublished manuscript by Ricardo Palma, among others of great historical value,” he points out.

All this has generated a corpus university heritage of importance and that seeks to be put at the service of research; be a vehicle to continue promoting the transfer of skills, as well as interdisciplinary work, and, finally, favor free access to these collections, through the Internet, also promoting the creation of knowledge, protection and dissemination. of the cultural and university heritage it houses.

On the other hand, the Faculty of Humanities, which has the academic program of History and Cultural Management, unique in the country, and has been in existence for more than fifteen years, has participated in projects to enhance the Archbishop's Archive of Piura and Tumbes (year 2008). Their teachers have also carried out research in regional archives (Piura, Lambayeque and La Libertad), knowing their reality.

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The Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara is one of the 6 institutions in Latin America to participate in this collaborative project.

The European Union, through the Erasmus+ program, created the project “Strengthening Capacities for the Recovery and Conservation of the Documentary and Bibliographic Heritage of Latin America” (CODICIS) in collaboration on the one hand with European institutions (EU HEIs) of higher education with experience in managing the training of personnel and on the other, the higher education institutions of Latin America (IES LAM) that can be local managers of training and conditioning of appropriate units for the preservation of local archival and bibliographic cultural heritage.

The idea arises from the fact that Latin America has a rich and vast documentary and bibliographic heritage, which requires its preservation and enhancement to deepen and preserve the identity and particular cultures of its peoples, however, its importance does not is in tune with the care that such a valuable legacy requires.

The initial proposal to participate in the CODICIS call arises from the Vice-Rector's Office for Liaison through the negotiations of the International Affairs office, an idea that is well received and supported by the Vice-Rector's Office for Research through the Library Directorate of the Guadalajara campus. . This project is aligned with the strategy of the UP-IPADE General Rectorate: Internationalization, Visibility and Fund Raising, where the Panamericana will receive co-financing that will be used in research, training and equipment of the Library.

6 institutions from Latin America participate: from Bolivia, the Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo de Tarija and the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés; from Peru the Universidad Católica San Pablo de Arequipa, who leads the project and the University of Piura and from Mexico La Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and the Universidad Panamericana Campus Guadalajara and in Europe, the University of Barcelona in Spain, the University of Catania participate in Italy and the INCOMA agency (International Consulting and Mobility Agency) in Seville, Spain.

The project began on January 15, 2021 and will last 36 months; The activities have been structured into 9 work packages (WP), in which all participants will contribute their experiences. The Universidad Panamericana leads WP1, which consists of establishing the methodological bases for the development, implementation and execution of an expert course for heritage archiving in Peru, Mexico and Bolivia.

The objectives of this table are: describe the Libraries and Archives that exist in Bolivia, Peru and Mexico; identify the training, training and updating of personnel who work in the Municipal Libraries and Archives of Bolivia, Peru and Mexico; know the good practices of the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of the European Union (EU); and finally, publish the research results of the first phase in different media.

CODICIS is the product of the synergy between the Vice-Chancellors of Liaison and Research headed by Dr. Rafael Hernández and Dr. Sergio Velázquez; Captain Leoncio Monjarás who led the initial negotiations of the project and established communication with Dr. Francisco Rizo, from the Universidad Católica San Pablo (UCSP), during the 3rd International Conference of the Program for Internationalization in Universities (INCHIPE) in Lima , Peru in 2018.

The work team is made up of Mr. David Torres Hall, Library Director, Mtro. Marcelo Preciado, who coordinates the work team, as well as Ms. Beatriz Dávalos and Mtro. Humberto Martínez.

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Scholarships for training on conservation of documentary heritage in Peru, Bolivia and Mexico

This is an important year for the cultural heritage of Peru, Bolivia and Mexico. The training course in management and conservation of archives and heritage libraries of the project will be held in these three countries. codicis. Participants will receive scholarships. For this reason they will be chosen via competition since they must replicate what they have learned. Its execution is scheduled for the second half of 2022.

Codicis is a project led by the Saint Paul Catholic University and it is made up of 7 other universities from Latin America and Europe. This consortium won competitive co-financing funds from the European Union through the Erasmus+ program in 2019. Its purpose is to promote training on the recovery, conservation and dissemination of bibliographic and documentary heritage in the three countries.

“This is an opportunity to receive professional-level training on the conservation of written heritage and, at the same time, be part of a project that will preserve and have access to the cultural legacy of each town. This is an example of the enormous value of cooperation and joint work between institutions in Peru and Europe,” the organizers indicated.

The course

It will be hybrid, that is, it will be taught in person and virtually. It will be intensive because the beneficiaries will in turn become trainers. The scholarship implies that they take a pilot course to replicate what they learned in the institutions of which they are part. In this way, it will have a greater impact in each of the partner countries.

Francisco Rizo Patrón, professor at San Pablo and coordinator of the Codicis project, explained that the first phase of the project consisted of collecting information about the level of training of personnel who work with heritage, bibliographic and documentary collections and in what situation they find. They will now proceed to design the training, which will be adapted to the situation of each country.

He noted that the work includes the exchange of information and experiences. The fellows will learn about European practices for the conservation of documentary and bibliographic heritage given the extensive experience they have in this regard, but they will also have to share the actions that are developed in their countries in this field.

The 60 scholarship recipients that were initially planned to be trained must be part of the Latin American universities that are part of the Codicis consortium. 10 will be chosen for each one. “They will be future trainers because they will have the ability to cooperate, find solutions in their countries and develop more strategies that are effective. We seek to provide high-level training that is internationally accredited, as well as promote cooperation.

After the course, a collaboration network will be formed between all those who take the course and those who are part of those who are replicated in the universities. The training also entails knowledge of the national and local reality regarding documentary collections and archives, the policy and laws in this regard, as well as local history, the production of books, their circulation, printing presses, among other aspects.

The importance of written heritage

Professor Pedro Rueda Paredes, coordinator of the Codicis team at the University of Barcelona, indicated that it is necessary to safeguard the written heritage so that it can be studied and left for future generations. This requires the development of heritage and cultural policies that allow us to access it, but also the training of qualified personnel in preservation techniques and their value. This is what they are aiming for with the project.

“It's like a museum, but in texts. We need qualified personnel if we want to have a cultural policy in the future, otherwise it will be forgotten or disappear. We must question the latter because if this heritage is lost, the same will happen with our history. We have to be able to prevent something like this from happening and at CODICIS we contribute to this end,” he indicated.

Whether it is a loose document, a book or a collection or another type of file, it requires special care and attention. What is also needed is to democratize the contents and make them known because the community needs to know about its past, about the vast culture recorded in these materials. “There may be equipment and infrastructure, but without well-trained personnel we will not advance,” said Professor Rizo Patrón.

As part of the project, in October of last year the “Days on European good practices in bibliographic and documentary heritage” were held, an activity that meant extensive learning about virtual training and made it possible to learn about the progress in this regard. They were broadcast and are still online on the University of Barcelona's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/FBiDUB. To date more than a thousand people have seen them.

The Codicis project is made up of the San Pablo Catholic University (project coordinator) and the University of Piura in Peru. In Mexico, the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla and the Pan American University Guadalajara headquarters and in Bolivia, the University of San Andres and the Bolivian Catholic University Tarija headquarters. For Europe, it is made up of University of Catania, Italy and the University of Barcelona, Spain. Added to them is the International Consulting and Mobility Agency (Incoma) from Seville, Spain.

Arequipa, January 7, 2022

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