Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia, as well as other Latin-American countries, hold a vast and rich documentary and bibliographic collections. Preserving and enhancing those collections are key drivers to highlight the complex process to gather and create them, and to further know and maintain the identity and culture of different peoples. However, most of these collections are not well kept, due partly to the lack of specific skills of personnel in charge of keeping it. This differs from Europe where Universities have developed specific curricula to cover this need, and are actively cooperating with other institutions such as libraries to preserve all the document heritage. Hence, our project CODICIS seeks to design, implement and test a specialization course to preserve and manage heritage documentary collections. CODICIS also intends to create or improve labs at the HEIs to preserve and restore document and archive collections. We have set several specific objectives: - To develop a pedagogical and scientific methodology to analyse and intervene the state of documents and bibliographic collections with heritage content- Knowledge transfer from EU HEIs about preserving bibliographic heritage- Capacity building on criteria to preserve, describe, classify and catalogue documentary and library heritage materials. - Providing equipment to the partner HEIs for the correct preservation and academic use of cultural heritage materialsThe project will last 36 months. It will be coordinated by Universidad Católica San Pablo from Arequipa (Peru), involving other 9 partners from Italy, Spain, Mexico, Peru and Bolivia.
CODICIS searched for: 1) Design and implement an expert course in conservation and management of heritage archives and libraries and; 2) To implement conservation and restoration 6 laboratories in the LAM HEIs. Likewise, CODICIS had 5 specific objectives: 1) To develop a scientific methodology for the diagnosis. 2) To design and build capacity. 3) To transfer knowledge from UE HEIs to LAM HEIs. 4) To equip 6 laboratories specialised. 5) To promote international cooperation.
CODICIS achieved the recovery and preservation of Latin America's bibliographic and documentary heritage for future generations by training 222 professionals. It decentralized opportunities for capacity building in the laboratories implemented, learning best practices from EU HEIs. The objectives achieved in such an important project were disseminated through regional symposiums, workshops, social networks, which allowed the generation of contact networks and increased the impact of the project.
<< Background >> CODICIS achieved the recovery and preservation of Latin America's bibliographic and documentary heritage for future generations by training 222 professionals. It decentralized opportunities for capacity building in the laboratories implemented, learning best practices from EU HEIs. The objectives achieved in such an important project were disseminated through regional symposiums, workshops, social networks, which allowed the generation of contact networks and increased the impact of the project. << Objectives >> CODICIS searched for: 1) Design and implement an expert course in conservation and management of heritage archives and libraries and; 2) To implement conservation and restoration 6 laboratories in the LAM HEIs. Likewise, CODICIS had 5 specific objectives: 1) To develop a scientific methodology for the diagnosis. 2) To design and build capacity. 3) To transfer knowledge from UE HEIs to LAM HEIs. 4) To equip 6 laboratories specialised. 5) To promote international cooperation. << Implementation >> The implementation of CODICIS began during Pandemic; with natural disasters and political instability in anything LAM HEIs. This made the partners to analyse and rethink some of the activities. Fortunately, we were able to modify and adapt to the new reality. The hard work during the last 3 years has strengthened us as a consortium and has allowed the fulfillment of all programmed activities. CODICIS has been just the beginning of the work we hope to continue doing in our region. << Results >> CODICIS contributed to strengthening competencies in conservation and management of documentary heritage in Mexico, Peru and Bolivia with training to 65 teachers from LAM HEIs, replicated to 157 students in LATAM and 6 CODICIS laboratories, 6 regional symposiums, 12 internal dissemination activities and 1 international virtual seminar on best practices. All partners agree that they have strengthened their personal and institutional capacities related to managing.