UDEP is one of the six Latin American universities that participate in Codicis, a bibliographic project, whose objective is to add to the training of people related to archive management in heritage libraries.<\/p>\n
Within the framework of the Codicis project, on October 24, the \u201cRegional Symposium on conservation and management of documentary heritage (archival and bibliographic): good practices and current possibilities\u201d was inaugurated at the UDEP Piura Campus.<\/p>\n
At the event, Professor Cristina Vargas Pacheco, director of the International Relations Department of UDEP, explained that Codicis is a bibliographic project carried out by the European Union and that brings together six Latin American universities, including the University of Piura.<\/p>\n
He indicated that the role of universities in the project is the transmission of knowledge. Thus, he said, the European institutions will strengthen the conservation and management capacities of archives in heritage libraries of the six Latin American universities which, in turn, must transmit this learning during 2023. \u201cThe objective is that different archival and library institutions can learn and continue strengthening its practices in conservation and management of documentary collections,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
In the first presentation of the symposium, Luis Fernando Brugu\u00e9 Valc\u00e1rcel, director of the Luis E. Valc\u00e1rcel Center & Archive, gave details about the legacy of the amauta Luis E. Valc\u00e1rcel, his valuable archive and the cultural center.<\/p>\n
He highlighted that Valc\u00e1rcel was an intellectual who fought to have his own vision of Peruvian history; He promoted archaeological and historical work and introduced a new study technique in Peru: ethnology, today called \u201cSocial Anthropology.\u201d Thanks to this, the past would be understood much better and all aspects of the human life of the native peoples could be studied.
\nThanks to the diversity of positions that Valc\u00e1rcel held in different institutions and his intellectual contacts, he was able to put together a very complete and varied photographic collection, which allowed him to provide material for the institutions he directed, and, at the same time, provide historians, archaeologists and scholars, a precious visual material for their publications, noted the speaker.<\/p>\n\n\t\t