Conference on the Preservation and Conservation for Rare Books 2016

In order to advance the studies in the field of preservation and conservation for rare books and enhance the communications and cooperation to the worldwide extent, this  conference will include scholars, experts and conservators to share their studies, theories and methodologies to stimulate different thoughts and new reflections of the conservation profession.

Topics will relate to the management of preservation and conservation for rare books, disaster planning for preservation for rare books, preservation and conservation for rare books in different languages
Preservation and conservation for stone rubbing, comparison of Preservation and conservation for western rare books and eastern rare books, new material, new tools, new techniques for the care and conservation for rare books, principles of Preservation and conservation for rare books and training and education for qualified conservators.  

Professor Dr. Robert Fuchs from CICS  – Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences in Cologne (Germany) will give the following talks:

5.11.2016 7.30 pm
Talk
The collapse of Cologne Historical Archive - the role of restorers and emergency plan


6.11.2016, 9.00 am
Conference-Presentation
Training for restorers/conservators for documentary heritage worldwide: Differences – similarities. Comparison of educational training, goals and graduations

The conservation of works of Art include three different fields: preservation, conservation, restoration. Since the safeguarding of documentary heritage lies in the hands of people with different professional trainings (librarians, archivists, restorers, bookbinders, but also chemists, architects or engineers) preservation and conservation methods are dependent to very different points of view. Each of these different professions focus on different aspects for caring for books, archival materials, structures or objects.
This is also reflected in the different structures of conservation training in different countries. Some trainings offer only a theoretical education, others include some or even much practical work on objects besides theoretical teaching.
The paper will compare different training programs for book and paper conservators which exist worldwide.  It will discuss the different goals, the ratio of theory and practice and graduations given at the end.

Robert Fuchs:
Robert Fuchs is the director of Restoration and Conservation of Manuscripts, Graphics, Photographies and Book Illustrations in Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences.  

He has more than 200 well-known publications as the results of different research projects in the analysis and restoration of artworks.

Since 1986 he has been working in an interdisciplinary team together with Dr. Doris Oltrogge and other scientific experts, focusing on the research of Middle-Age book illustrations, arts technological origins and historical materials.

Robert Fuchs is a member of various scientific and restoring associations, a speaker and member of NRW-Focus of Research “Heritage Buildings Preservation and Restoration”, representative writer of “Working Group Analysis” in Technische Hochschule Cologne.

Since 2009 he has been the director of CICS Institut for Conservation and Restoration Knowledge of Technische Hochschule Cologne.

Organization in cooperation with the Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Information Management and National Conservation Center for Rare Books.

Sun Yat-Sen University