An international project on documentary and bibliographic heritage began

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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