Brungs, Julia2025-09-242025-09-2420161. Dutch UNESCO National Commission PERSIST home: http://unesco.nl/digital-sustainability 2. IFLA Preservation and Conservation Core Activity: www.ifla.org/pac 3. The Blue Shield (http://www.ancbs.org/cms/en/) was founded in 1996 and is recognised under the second protocol of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13637&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html) 4. ICOM: http://icom.museum/ 5. ICOMOS: http://www.icomos.org/en/ 6. IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section: http://www.ifla.org/preservation-and-conservation 7. Risk Register database – public registration portal: http://www.ifla.org/node/9656 8. Resources around risk mitigation: http://www.ifla.org/node/9657 9. UNESCO action on Mali: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/armed-conflict-and-heritage/emergency-actions/mali/https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/5726Throughout the centuries, libraries have been essential for the preservation, conservation and safeguarding of the world’s heritage. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) upholds this age-old mission of libraries and has made it one of its core aims. Culture is a basic need. A community thrives through its cultural heritage, it dies without it.engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Articlehttp://2016.ifla.org/open accessIFLA Risk Register for Documentary Heritagedisaster preparednesspreservationInternational Committee of the Blue ShieldUNESCO