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UNESCO Memory of the World: what is its value?

June 8, 2013 0 Comments
UNESCO Memory of the World: what is its value?

Statutory protection for historic documentary collections in the UK is weak, with the exception of some highly specific categories of archives under the Public Record Acts. Similarly, non-statutory schemes that aim to identify such collections and grant institutional approval to them are rare, in comparison with programmes by national or international bodies to protect by […]

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