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The Erasmus+ CODICIS project, in which FIMA participates, has started the distance training of the trainer training course in management and conservation of archives and heritage libraries, with more than fifty students from three countries (Mexic, Peru and Bolivia) coming from its university centres.

In this training in bibliographic and documentary heritage, professors Amadeu Pons (Introduction to documentation) and Jesús Gascón (Introduction to cataloguing) participate, along with Concepción Rodríguez, Carina Rey and Lluís Agustí, who are in charge of the first module that is It is impartint in these moments. The training will continue online until the end of each day.

Furthermore, teams of professors from our Faculty of Catània (Sicília) will be sent to visit the Latin American partners and complete the training with face-to-face sessions in the three countries. In this phase we will be in charge of training the trainers who will then be in charge of training the librarians and archives in each of the six participating Latin American university centers, in a cascade training that is a key element of the sustainability of the project.

October 8, 2022

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Pablo Cruz Quintanilla, manager of Ande. Arte y Ediciones EIRL maintains that the organizations that maintain their documentary repositories and allow the user to access them receive decisive attention from the community.

Pablo Cruz Quintanilla is one of the exhibitors who will participate in the regional symposium “Conservation and Management of Documentary Heritage. Good practices and current possibilities”, which will take place on October 24 and 25 at UDEP's Piura Campus. The event will bring together national and international professionals.

The art historian, with extensive experience in projects associated with Peruvian history and art, highlights the importance of actions aimed at recovering, protecting and disseminating documentary heritage for the preservation of information which strengthens collective memory and indicates the origin of a region or the cultural history of the country.

“The importance of the work of safeguarding the documentary legacy lies in the very fact of safeguarding those written or visual works that consolidate the identity of a society. For this reason, entities such as archives, universities and museums, linked to the production of historical, cultural, artistic and scientific knowledge, have the capacity to generate documentary recovery projects,” notes Cruz Quintanilla.

It also indicates that allocating resources for documentary preservation provides greater visibility for an institution, including universities. “Currently, with new technological and dissemination means, the organizations that maintain their documentary repositories and, even more, allow their availability to the user, receive decisive attention from the community,” he says.

Conservation in Peru

Cruz Quintanilla points out that, although there have been successive projects for the recovery and conservation of documentary heritage in Peru, “digital reprography (reproduction) initiatives are just beginning to gain strength. Furthermore, due to the limited technological means available, the digitization of written and visual documents is still new for the country.”
It also recommends that to adequately disseminate the documentary heritage, the first thing to do is to make it available to the community. “The most effective way is by making it visible through traditional media, publications or in-person exhibitions, and through virtuality, generating digital catalogs and promoting said materials through social networks,” he notes.

He explains that people in general, researchers, intellectuals and scientists are in constant search for knowledge about different historical topics. “Hence his recurring interest in knowing written or visual sources protected by public or private institutions. The efforts of entities to make this knowledge accessible can be achieved through their management capacity and the undertaking of potential projects. Even with scarce resources, the search for financing or self-sustainability constitutes economic tools to undertake documentary preservation plans,” he notes.

About the symposium

The objective of the academic meeting “Conservation and Management of Documentary Heritage. Good practices and current possibilities” is to highlight the importance of the conservation, management and dissemination of documentary heritage (archival and bibliographic), through the presentation of experiences carried out in archives and libraries in Peru and the world.

The event is organized by the Central Library, the Faculty of Humanities and the International Relations Department of the University of Piura, within the framework of the Erasmus + Project, Codicis (financed by the European Commission), and will be held in hybrid mode.

To participate in virtual format, you can register here; To attend the in-person format, register by email ximena.mendoza.o@udep.edu.pe.

October 21, 2022

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Within the framework of the activities of the Codicis project, staff from the Library, UDEP International and the Faculty of Humanities had a working meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico.

This first meeting of the coordinating team of the Codicis project was held at the facilities of the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico. The coordinators of the consortium from Bolivia, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Peru participated, who shared the progress of the work packages for the coming months.

Cristina Vargas, director of International Relations at the University of Piura and professor at the Faculty of Humanities, shared details about the reformulation and local adaptation of the specialization course as a replica of the training course for trainers in management and conservation of archives and heritage libraries. This specialization will be aimed at members of six Latin American universities: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo, Universidad Católica San Pablo, University of Piura, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and Universidad Panamericana.

For their part, members of the UDEP Library visited archives and libraries in Guadalajara, in order to learn about the reality and treatment of collections, especially their historical and ancient collections. They highlighted the visit to the Juan José Arreola Public Library, since its conservation and restoration area has a model laboratory.

In addition, they participated in the regional symposium “Documentary and bibliographic heritage: sources and research techniques”, organized by the Universidad Panamericana. This covered topics related to heritage studies in libraries and archives, digitization of files and documents, and conservation of historical archives.

María José Andrade, director of the UDEP Library System, highlighted the importance of the next stage of the project – the training of future trainers – in the specialization course that will be led by the University of Barcelona (Spain) and the Universidà degli Studi di Catania (Italy). Likewise, he commented that fundamental aspects were reviewed to ensure the sustainability of the project and the development of proposals that involve the assessment of documentary heritage.

About the project and upcoming activities

The Codicis project for “Strengthening capacities for the Recovery and Conservation of Documentary and Bibliographic Heritage in Latin America” began in 2021. In October of that year, the European good practices conference on bibliographic and documentary heritage was held.

On October 24 and 25, 2022, the Regional Symposium on Conservation and Management of Documentary Heritage will be held at Campus Piura. The event will be free and details about it will be disseminated on the social networks of UDEP and UDEP International.

September 23, 2022

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The symposium “Conservation and Management of Documentary Heritage” will take place at Campus Piura on October 24 and 25. It will bring together national and international professionals, with experience in the topics addressed.

The Central Library, the Faculty of Humanities and the Directorate of International Relations of the University of Piura, within the framework of the Erasmus + Project, Codicis (financed by the European Commission), organize the “Regional Symposium on Conservation and Management of Documentary Heritage, Good Practices and Current Possibilities”, which will take place in October, at Campus Piura, in hybrid mode.

The objective of the event is to highlight the importance of the conservation, management and dissemination of documentary heritage (archival and bibliographic), through the presentation of experiences carried out in archives and libraries in Peru and the world.

To do this, there will be the participation of specialist professionals from the Luis E. Valcárcel Center & Archive, of the Autonomous University of Mexico, the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections of the University of Austin-Texas, and the House of Peruvian Literature. , from the Piura Regional Archive, from the National Library of Peru, from the General Archive of the Nation, from the Ande Portal. Sources for the cultural history of Peru and the National Museum of Peruvian Culture.

The symposium will include the inauguration of the exhibition “Documentary Legacy at UDEP”, by the Library of the University of Piura.

Thematic tables

This activity will be carried out around four thematic tables: Good archival management practices, Conservation experiences of documentary heritage, Digitization experiences and Conservation and management experiences of documentary heritage in museums and universities.

The interested public can register to participate in person or virtually and for free, here. The in-person event will be at the UDEP Piura Campus.
Those attending the sessions on October 24 and 25 will obtain a certificate awarded by the Codicis project and the University of Piura, for their participation.

September 21, 2022

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Professors M. Térmens and P. Rueda have traveled to the Universidad Panamericana (Guadalajara, Mexico) to participate in the activities of the European project CODICIS: Strengthening capacities for the Recovery and Conservation of Documentary and Bibliographic Heritage in Latin America on August 29 to September 1.

During their stay they have participated in the steering committee that is in charge of the design and development of the project and have also participated in a regional meeting. The committee has been key to advancing the management of the Training Course for trainers in management and conservation of archives and heritage libraries coordinated by the University of Barcelona with the University of Catania.

In the regional seminar Conference on documentary and bibliographic heritage: Sources and research techniques, the two professors participated with invited presentations. Professor M. Térmens has dealt with “Digitization of archives and documents” and Professor P. Rueda with “Sources for heritage studies in libraries”.

These seminars are organized in each of the six Latin American headquarters of the participating universities and will take place during the 2022-2023 academic year.

September 9, 2022

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With the purpose of promoting training on recovery, conservation and dissemination of documentary and bibliographic historical heritage in the countries of Mexico, Peru and Bolivia; a team of the Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo” Tarija Headquarters, attended the First Meeting of the CODICIS Project, which took place from August 29 to September 1 in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico.

The UCB Tarija team was made up of: María Carolina Soto Montenegro, Academic Director of Headquarters; Vilma Choquehuanca Zeballos, Head of the Library; María del Rosario Cavero Rodríguez, Head of Special Projects, and Valeria Arduz Murillo, Specialist in Academic Quality Management.

The members of the CODICIS project received training in documentary and bibliographic heritage, made visits to the different public libraries, heritage museums, ecclesiastical historical archives and the document conservation and restoration laboratories of the city of Guadalajara.

They also participated in the Regional Symposium “Documentary and Bibliographic Heritage: Sources and Research Techniques” on August 31 and September 1, which was organized by the Universidad Panamericana. In it, different topics related to heritage sources in archives and personal sources from bibliographic research were addressed.

“With the objective of capturing and exchanging good practices between the European and Latin American universities that are part of the project, analysis, reflection and evaluation are sought to make the pertinent adjustments according to our reality,” said the Headquarters Academic Director.

Likewise, at the meeting, the members managed to plan all the activities that will be carried out until 2023, when the project ends.

During this visit, a very important connection was achieved; first with the participating members, because from the beginning the project was carried out virtually. “So with this in-person meeting, we have been able to talk and analyze possible situations and future projects that we can undertake,” said Carolina Soto.

The European Commission through the Erasmus+ program through the CODICIS project “Strengthening Capacities for the Recovery and Conservation of the Documentary and Bibliographic Heritage of Latin America”, 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. This project is under the General Coordination of Mr. Francisco Rizo Patron of the San Pablo University of Arequipa-Peru.

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With the aim of raising awareness among Tarija society of the need to preserve and recover documents from heritage archives and libraries, the Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo” Tarija Headquarters In coordination with the CODICIS Project, it successfully organized the Symposium-Workshop “Path to the recovery and preservation of the historical documentary heritage of our people.”

The meeting was aimed mainly at teachers, professors, university students, school students, library and archive staff, with participation of approximately 150 people.

The event was held in person and virtually on August 18 and 19, where practical workshops on conservation, restoration and document digitization were developed; in addition to guided visits to the Ecclesial Center for Franciscan Documentation and the library of the UCB Headquarters Tarija. Local, national and international experts were present as speakers.

The Coordinator of the CODICIS Project, Lic. Valeria Arduz commented that Tarija is a place that has multiple archives and historical documents that are fundamental for Bolivia, so it is important to promote the recovery of these documents and reflect on the importance they have.

“The Symposium was developed successfully, having two days, the first dedicated to libraries with topics related to the Library that preserves and manages cultural memory and the digitization of documentary heritage; on the other hand, regulations and the archive as a protector of documentary memory, with the help of experts,” said the Project Coordinator.

CODICIS is a project to strengthen capacities for the recovery and conservation of the documentary heritage of Latin America financed by ERASMUS + of the European Union, which seeks to design and execute a specialization course in conservation and management of archives and heritage libraries.

The institutions that make up the project are:

• Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo”
• University of Piura
• University panameric
• Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla
• University of San Andres
• Degli Studi University of CATANIA
• University of Barcelona
• INCOMA

August 24, 2022

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In commemoration of International Book Day, the library of the Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo” Tarija Headquarters, donated books that were published by the University. The texts were delivered to the “Tomas O'Connor D'arlach” heritage library and the municipal libraries.

The person in charge of the University Library, Vilma Choquehuanca, reported that a total of 26 books were delivered.

At the same time, the Bolivian Catholic University has been disseminating the CODICIS project, which is financed by ERASMUS of the European Union and aims to train professors from universities in those countries for teaching in recovery, conservation and authorization for research. of important heritage collections.

Among other activities that were carried out for book month, the UCB Headquarters Tarija held a round of training on the application of APA seventh edition standards, a discussion with professors who wrote books, the exhibition of new books and the presentation of the thesis online catalog and online research tools service.

July 22, 2022

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With the aim of instilling the value of archives and heritage libraries in our Tarija society, the library of the Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo” Tarija Headquarters, with financing from the European Union, organizes the Symposium “Path to the recovery and preservation of the historical documentary heritage of our people” to be held on August 18 and 19.

The symposium is aimed at teachers, administrators, archives staff, library staff and final year students of the educational units of the city of Tarija.

The purpose of the meeting is to promote in the participants the management of the documents that narrate the history of Tarija, so that the essence of the historical value of our town is not lost. In addition, the objective is to train those people related to the conservation and management of archives and heritage libraries, through the “Training of trainers” course.

The UCB is part of the CODICIS project for the recovery and conservation of the documentary heritage of Latin America, which is made up of a consortium of 5 universities from Peru and Mexico and two universities from Spain and Italy.

This project is funded by ERASMUS of the European Union and aims to train professors from universities in those countries for teaching in the recovery, conservation and authorization for research of important heritage collections.

June 23, 2022

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