Cultural Heritage Programme Advisory Committee

In August 2015 IFLA created the IFLA Cultural Heritage Programme Advisory Committee which oversees and advises on all of IFLA's cultural heritage activities. 

The main role of the Committee is to:

  • Advise the Governing Board  on the strategic priorities and activities of the Cultural Heritage Programme, including the Preservation and Conservation Core Activity
  • Participate in awareness raising of cultural heritage activities to IFLA members and strategic partners
  • Support IFLA’s policy development and advocacy in areas relevant to cultural heritage
  • Liaise with the Governing Board’s Professional Committee on the participation of IFLA’s professional units in cultural heritage activities
  • Advise the Governing Board on the implementation of the  IFLA Principles of Engagement in library-related activities of disaster risk reduction and in times of conflict, crisis or natural disaster

The group has up to eight members. The current term runs from August 2019 - August 2021 and the members of the Committee are:

  • Helen Vincent (Governing Board Representative)
    Rare Books and Music Collection Manager
    National Library of Scotland
    United Kingdom
    h.vincent@nls.uk
  • Jacob Nadal (Preservation and Conservation Centre Representative
    Library of Congress
    Washington, D.C., United States
    jnad@loc.gov​
  • Jeanne Drewes (Preservation and Conservation Section Representative)
    ​Consultant
    United States
    jdrewes3@gmail.com
  • Isabelle Nyffenegger (National Libraries Section Representative) ​
    Directrice déléguée aux relations internationales
    Bibliothèque nationale de France
    Frace
    isabelle.nyffenegger@bnf.fr
  • Danielle Culpepper (Rare Books & Special Collections Section Representative) ​
    Director of Budget and Finance
    University of Virginia, Rare Book School
    United States
    dculpepper@virginia.edu
  • Camille Callison (Indigenous Matters Section Representative)
    Indigenous Services Librarian & Liaison Librarian
    Canada
    Camille.Callison@umanitoba.ca
  • Deborah Benrubi (Audiovisual & Multimedia Section Representative)
    Librarian
    University of San Francisco
    United States
    benrubi@usfca.edu
  • Jan Bos (Expert member)
    Koninklijke Bibliotheek
    The Hague, Netherlands
    jan.bos@kb.nl
  • Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh C Gaur (Expert member)
    Dean & Director (Lib. & Inf.)
    Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) (Autonomous body of Ministry of Culture, Government of India) rcgaur66@gmail.com
  • Gerald Leitner
    IFLA Secretary General (non-voting)

Cultural heritage

Dernière mise à jour: 26 novembre 2020