A consultant is visiting the territory this week to advise leaders on setting up a committee and register to help identify and protect important historical documents in the territory.
The effort is part of National Memory of the World Programme, which was established in 1992 by UNESCO.
Government ministries, national commissions and other stakeholders are to receive technical advice from Elizabeth Watson, a UNESCO library consultant and researcher who arrived in the territory on Tuesday for a three-day visit.
The programme aims to protect and improve access to “documentary heritage,” in part by raising awareness with governments and the public, according to government.
Thus, the consultant is to meet with government officials who have in-country responsibility for UNESCO; information professionals such as archivists, librarians and historians; and others with knowledge of the territory’s documentary heritage.
Ms. Watson will also advise on the establishment of a national committee to identify important documents and prepare nominations for registering these documents in national, regional and international MoW registers. Training sessions also are planned on how to complete the nomination form.
So far more than 57 countries have entries of more than 120 collections on the Memory of the World Register, according to government.
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