New collections come to enrich the Memory of the World
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova today endorsed recommendations by the International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Committee to inscribe <a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/register/access-by-year/2011/"><u>45 new documents</u></a> and documentary collections from all over the world on the Memory of the World Register, which now numbers a total of 238 items.
"By helping safeguard and share such a varied documentary heritage, UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme reinforces the basis for scholarship and enjoyment of the creative wealth and diversity of human cultures and societies," the Director-General said today.
The Memory of the World Register covers all types of material and support, including stone, celluloid, parchment, audio recordings and more.
New items inscribed:
<li>Austria: Mainz Psalter at the Austrian National Library (Austria)
Arnold Schönberg Estate
<li>Barbados, Jamaica, Panama, Saint Lucia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America
Silver Men: West Indian Labourers at the Panama Canal
<li>Bolivia: Documentary Fonds of Royal Audiencia Court of La Plata (RALP)
<li>Brazil: Fonds of the Network of information and counter information of the military regime in Brazil
<li>Bulgaria: Enina Apostolos,Old Bulgarian Cyrillic manuscript (fragment)of the 11th century
<li>China: Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica)
Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon)
<li>Czech Republic: Collection of 526 prints of university theses from 1637-1754
<li>Denmark: MS.GKS 4 2°,vol.I-III,Biblia Latina.Commonly called "the Hamburg Bible",or "the Bible of Bertoldus".
<li>Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago: Documentary Heritage of the Indian Indentured Labourers
<li>France: Bibliothèque de Beatus Rhenanus
<li>Germany: Construction and Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Two-Plus-Four-Treaty of 1990
Patent DRP 37435 "Vehicle with gas engine operation" submitted by Carl Benz, Mannheim (29 January 1886)
<li>India: 'Laghukalachakratantrarajatlka' (Vimalprabha)
Tarikh-E-Khandan-E-Timuriyah
<li>Indonesia and the Netherlands: La Galigo
<li>Iran: A Collection of Nezami's Khamseh
Al-Tafhim li Awa'il Sana'at al-Tanjim (The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology)
<li>Ireland: Book of Kells
<li>Italy: Lucca's Historical Diocesan Archives (ASDLU): Early Middle Ages documents
<li>Japan:
Sakubei Yamamoto Collection
<li>Korea, Republic of: Human Rights Documentary Heritage 1980 Archives for the May 18th Democratic Uprising against Military Regime, in Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Ilseongnok: the Records of Daily Reflections
<li>Mexico: Sixteenth to eighteenth century pictographs from the record group "Maps, drawings and illustrations
<li>Mongolia: Lu."Altan Tobchi" - Golden History written in 1651; Mongolian Tanjur
<li>Morocco: Kitab al-ibar,wa diwan al-mobtadae wa al-khabar
<li>Netherlands: Desmet Collection
<li>Netherlands, Brazil, Ghana, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, United Kingdom, United States of America: Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) Archives
<li>Netherlands, Curacao and Suriname: Archive Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC)
<li>Norway: Thor Heyerdahl Archives
<li>Philippines: Presidential Papers of Manuel L. Quezon
<li>Poland: Archive of Warsaw Reconstruction Office
<li>Russian Federation: Ostromir Gospel (1056-1057); Leo Tolstoy's Personal Library and Manuscripts, Photo and Film Collection
<li>Saint Kitts and Nevis: Registry of Slaves of Bermuda 1821-1834 (an addendum to Slaves of the British Caribbean 1817-1834, inscribed in 2009)
<li>Sweden: Stockholm City Planning Committee Archives
Codex Argenteus - the 'Silver Bible
<li>Switzerland: Les Collections Jean-Jacques Rousseau de Genève et de Neuchâtel
<li>Thailand: The Epigraphic Archives of Wat Pho
<li>Trinidad and Tobago: The Constantine Collection
<li>Tunisia: Privateering and the international relations of the Regency of Tunis in the 18th and 19th centuries
<li>United Kingdom: Historic Ethnographic Recordings (1898 - 1951) at the British Library
<li>Viet Nam: Stone Stele Records of Royal Examinations of the Le and Mac Dynasties (1442-1779)
Eleven countries enter the Memory of the World Register for the first time with the new inscriptions: Bulgaria, Fiji, Guyana, Ireland, Japan, Mongolia, Morocco, Panama, Suriname, Switzerland, Tunisia.
The inscriptions were recommended by the International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Programme that has been meeting in the Manchester (U.K.) from 22 to 25 of May.
UNESCO launched the Memory of the World Programme in 1992 to guard against collective amnesia by through the preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world and ensuring their wide dissemination.
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