Colloquium in Puebla, Mexico “New trends in management of heritage documentary collections”
On May 18 and 19, 2022, the Colloquium was held in the city of Puebla, Mexico. New Trends in Heritage Document Collection Management organized by the José María Lafragua Historical Library of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and the Department of Library Science, Documentation and Audiovisual Communication of the University of Barcelona. The event was held in a hybrid way, with an in-person audience in the reading room of the Lafragua Library and with an online audience, in real time through the virtual conference platform Zoom and also through live broadcast on the YouTube channel of library. The topics addressed together with the speakers attracted people from various Latin American countries.
The first part of the colloquium It began with a brief description of the CODICIS project, led by Dr. Francisco Rizo Patrón from the Catholic University of San Pablo (Peru). Next, teacher Mercedes I. Salomón Salazar, Director of the José María Lafragua Historical Library, gave an introduction to the topics that would be addressed over the two days of the event. Following which, a very fruitful dialogue was opened with people who have had interesting experiences as managers of heritage documentary collections, each one different, but who contributed to the public understanding of the great challenge we have in Mexico to keep many documentary collections alive. , many of them sustained by intense altruistic work.
The following participated in this table: Román Moreno Soto, Coordinator of the Documentation Center of the National Center for the Preservation of Railway Cultural Heritage; Alejandro Serrano Núñez from the Library of the Congregation of the Oratory of San Felipe Neri; Belem Oviedo Gámez, Director of the Historical Archive and Mining Museum, AC
The first day closed with the keynote speech of the Dr. Carina Rey, Professor of the Department of Library Science, Documentation and Audiovisual Communication of the University of Barcelona where she addressed precisely the topic of new trends in management of documentary collections with heritage value.
The second part of the Colloquium (May 19) began with the keynote address by Dr. Glòria Pérez-Salmerón, president of the Stichting Global Libraries Foundation as well as Honorary Member and President of IFLA (2017-2019). She presented the topic “Libraries, librarians and social commitment”, leading the audience to an important reflection on the work of heritage collections to support the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
The conference “Comparative analysis of the legislation on heritage protection in three countries: Mexico, Bolivia and Peru” was then presented, which was led by Edgar Iván Mondragón Aguilera and Christian Sánchez Pozos, responsible, respectively, for Projects and Cataloging of the Lafragua Library. With this intervention, part of the results of the work carried out during the first year of work of the CODICIS project were presented. Several library colleagues supported by providing valuable information to be able to create a State of the Art not only in terms of legislation, but also in terms of training and training of staff, conservation, restoration, digitization, cataloging and classification.
The event concluded with the second intervention by Dr. Carina Rey, where she addressed the topic: “A look at the values of the library” through which he shared with the audience many marketing and branding strategies to improve the positioning of archives and libraries. Very interesting was the reflection he raised regarding managers and senior officials being present at these types of events to better understand and support the needs, goals and mission of the institutions that are under their management at a higher level.
For those who were not able to participate, you can still listen to the conferences in the hyperlinks included in this text that refer you to the channel:
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