National conservation day

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The National Day of Action for Preservation was organized from 2005 to 2016 in memory of the fire in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar on September 2, 2004 and other disasters such as the collapse of the Cologne City Archives or the consequences of the Elbe flood . He reminded of the importance of preserving written cultural assets and pointed out creeping dangers such as mold , paper disintegration and ink corrosion . The organizer was the Alliance Written Cultural Property , founded in 2001, and a member of the alliance took over the lead for the implementation.

The days of action from 2005 to 2016

The first days of action were held in parallel in numerous locations in Germany, from 2007 there was a central location for each event: on September 2, 2007 in Dresden , on September 7, 2008 in Münster , on September 5, 2009 in Ludwigsburg , on May 29, 2010 in Leipzig , on May 14, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main , on October 6, 2012 in Munich , on October 19, 2013 in Marbach , on August 30, 2014 in Weimar , on September 5, 2015 in Cologne and on November 12, 2016 in Goettingen .

Others

The prominent supporters of the campaign days in recent years include: a. Ranga Yogeshwar (2014), Frank Schätzing (2015) and Heinrich Detering (2016).

literature

  • Kleinbub, Claudia: lobbying for libraries. Preservation and public relations using the example of the National Action Day 2014 in Weimar (Berlin Handouts on Library and Information Science 335). Berlin 2012. PDF
  • Kleinbub, Claudia: Conference report: The “10. National Day of Action for the Preservation of Written Cultural Assets ”on August 30, 2014 in Weimar. In: Bibliotheksdienst 48 (2014), pp. 975–984. doi : 10.1515 / bd-2014-0121
  • Huff, Dorothee; Mangei, Johannes: National day of action for the preservation of written cultural assets in Göttingen. In: Bibliotheksdienst 51 (2017), pp. 144–149. doi : 10.1515 / bd-2017-0014

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