Memory of the World Programme

<p><a href="/facts/UNESCO/QSbkRv3o">UNESCO</a>'s Memory of the World (MoW) Programme is an international initiative that recognises documentary heritage of global importance. It aims to safeguard the <a href="/facts/Documentary_heritage/HJH4UnBr">documentary heritage</a> of humanity against <a href="/facts/Collective_amnesia/7BCCrjIw">collective amnesia</a>, neglect, decay over time and climatic conditions, as well as deliberate destruction. It calls for the <a href="/facts/Historic_preservation/wdKx4F1e">preservation</a> of valuable <a href="/facts/Archival_holdings/BgCG3dxa">archival holdings</a>, library collections, and private individual compendia all over the world for posterity and increased accessibility to, and public awareness of, these items.
</p><p>Following the establishment of the Memory of the World International Register, UNESCO and the Memory of the World Programme have encouraged the creation of autonomous national and regional committees as well as national and regional registers which focus on documentary heritage of great regional or national importance, but not necessarily of global importance.
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Memory of the World Programme