Brungs, Julia2025-09-242025-09-242016https://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