CC BY 4.0IFLA Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage2025-04-222025-04-222025-04-18https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/3939This document is the result of the workshop ‘Towards a Common Understanding of Documentary Heritage’, a collaboration between University of Cape Town Library and IFLA’s Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage, 11-12 February 2025. The workshop formed part of the CCH project to review documentary heritage, prioritizing the perspectives of the global south, which have historically been marginalised in international dialogues that shape these definitions. This document is a result of a "sprint" that summarised the input of the participants in this workshop, which included library, rare book, archive and audiovisual professionals, senior library managers, and representatives of library associations. Participants joins from South Africa, Zambia, Lesotho and the United Kingdom, Poland, and the Netherlands.enhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Cultural heritageDocumentary heritageCultural rightsCultureArchival collectionsArchivesDocumentary Heritage and the Role of Libraries: A Southern African perspectiveEvents MaterialInternational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)