04-04-2008 (New Delhi) A UNESCO-supported project " Preservation and Conservation of Rare Documents of St. Xavier's College Library, Kolkata " has recently been completed. Several thousands of pages of rare documents from the College library have been recovered, preserved and digitised. St. Xavier's College was established in 1860. It is now one of the oldest colleges in the South Asian sub-region. The College library holds a golden treasury of very old printed documents, providing from donations of books by the provincial governments and European missionaries in the last century. The documentary collection includes philosophical thoughts of eminent thinkers of eighteenth century, philosophy of sciences, historical accounts, religious scriptures, etc. Unfortunately, this heritage is continuously decaying towards extinction, which would be an enormous cultural loss for India. Selected rare documents of the College library have been recovered, preserved and digitised u...
La Archivonomía forja el carácter e identidad de los acervos y el patrimonio cultural de cada región porque organiza, gestiona y conserva los conjuntos orgánicos de documentos archivísticos, como los textuales, fílmicos, sonoros, fotográficos, cartográficos, digitales, entre otros. (Heredia, 1986)