IFLA Core Program for Preservation and Conservation (PAC)
The IFLA Core Program on Preservation and Conservation (PAC) was officially created in 1984 during the IFLA meeting in Nairobi, and then formally launched at the Vienna conference in 1986. The PAC core program was designed to operate through an international center, or Focal Point, currently hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which in turn coordinates activities managed by several regional centers.
The Washington Center has coordinated the formation of an IFLA Preservation and Conservation North American Network. The network consists of the following institutions and representatives:
| Cornell University | Barbara Berger Eden | (607) 255-5291 |
| Harvard University | Jan Merrill-Oldham | (617) 495-7657 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Sonja Jordan-Mowery | (410) 516-4383 |
| Library of Congress | Dianne van der Reyden | (202) 707-5213 |
| Library and Archives of Canada | Pierre Gamache | (819) 953-7701 |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Doris Hamburg | (301) 713-6719 |
| National Park Service | Al Levitan | (304) 535-6139 |
| New York Public Library | Evelyn Frangakis | (212) 930-0644 |
| Pepperdine University | Mark Roosa | (310) 506-4252 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Eliza Gilligan | (202) 633-4713 |
| University of Texas - Austin | Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa | (512) 471-8287 |
| University of Utah | Randy Silverman | (801) 585-6782 |
| Yale University | Roberta Pilette | (203) 432-1714 |
A complete list of international regional centers are listed below.
| Beijing | National Library of China |
| Canberra | National Library of Australia |
| Cape Town | University Library of Cape Town |
| Caracas | Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela |
| Moscow | Library of Foreign Literature |
| Port of Spain | National Library and Information System Authority of Trinidad and Tobago |
| Porto Nova | National Library of Benin |
| Rio de Janeiro | Fundacao Biblioteca Nacional de Brasil |
| Santiago | Biblioteca Nacional de Chile |
| Tokyo | National Diet Library |
| Washington | Library of Congress |
| The International Centre in Paris (Bibliothèque nationale de France) acts as the Regional Centre for Western Europe, Middle East and Africa | |
Institutions throughout the world have benefited from PAC assistance and guidance, both at the practical and at the policy level. The PAC core program operates under the following principles:
- the preservation of library and archives materials is essential to the survival and development of culture and scholarship;
- national and international interdependency exists in the preservation of library materials; and
- national strategy should be guided by the principle that each country
must accept responsibility for the preservation of its own imprint
and for the preservation of other library and archive material of its
own civilization and culture.
In addition to its participation in a wide variety of workshops and conferences throughout the world and its relations with an equally wide variety of international cultural agencies, PAC activities of the past decade have resulted in a strong education and publications program.
The Library of Congress, as the center for North America, plays an active role in IFLA PAC activities by doing the following:
- distribute newsletters
- produce publications
- advance the goals and objectives of IFLA and its affiliates
- host workshops