Cultural Programmes

Case Study
Grinzane Cavour

Receiving funding under the 1999 call for pilot projects, Grinzane Cavour is a literarature project intending to create a programme for exchanges among professionals, targetting specifically writers, translators, researchers and librarians. Prority will be given to professional training. A permanent observatory of reading across Europe is another aim of the project, as is a competition for young people on the theme of 'My favourite book'. The project intends to establish a database to allow the study of the economy, geography and politics of books and translation. A telematic review will propose studies and articles about books, reading and translations. UK organisations Opening the Book and the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia are among the project partners.

Case Study
BL/PRO

The British Library and the Public Record Office were among organisations across Europe involved in Culture 2000 project SEPIA, which aimed to safeguard European photographic images for access. The project dealt with historic photographic collections that are an essential part of the Europe's cultural heritage. The project's activities included expert meetings and workshops to train those working with photographic collections, published reports and documentation. The project concluded with a major conference at the PRO in September 2000. SEPIA was co-ordinated by the Dutch-based European Commission on Preservation and Access.
Web site: http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia.

Case Study
Buckinghamshire County Library Service

Historic children's books will be digitised under a new £60,000 project called Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe (CHILDE). A Buckinghamshire County Library Service team will lead the project with partners from Italy, Germany and Ireland, as well as the London Borough of Wandsworth and the University of Surrey children's literature research centre. Other goals include a European best practice model for historical children's book preservation and an education programme. The project will conclude after one year with a conference in Buckinghamshire in October 2001.