Rome, International College ‘San Lorenzo da Brindisi’, September 4-9, 2017
Again this year we will have our traditional event for the friars and their lay collaborators in the cultural institutions of our Order, which since 2002 has been held each year. This year the Course for Capuchin Librarians, Archivists, and Curators will be held at our International College ‘San Lorenzo da Brindisi’ during the week of September 4 to 9, 2017.
This latest offering of the course will develop certain topics of common interest. A member of the management of the Vatican Library will present on the juridical responsibility of directors; a noted information technology expert will show us how to develop the treatment of materials in digital and multimedia formats in archives; a worker from the Diocese of Rome will speak on the organization and use of museums; an official from Vatican Secretary of State will speak on the formative and pastoral value of cultural heritage; and finally the staff of the Capuchin Central Library will present on recent directives from the General Curia on cultural heritage and will continue to take up certain technical questions regarding our cumulative catalogue and consulting it on the internet. On an afternoon in the middle of the course there will also be a guided visit to the Franciscan friary of San Bonaventura and to the complex of San Sebastiano on the Palatine Hill.
Lectures will alternate with study meetings and common dialogue. English and Italian are the official languages, with simultaneous translation. The experience of past years together with what has been expressed by participants themselves, reveals that the value of this initiative consists in an opportunity to know each other, to discuss, to collaborate, and to encourage each other in our work in the field of our cultural heritage. It would be good, however, if each circumscription of the Order could send at least one participant, and so to offer its own contribution to our common cultural service to the Order, the Church, and to civil society.
Watch the video presentations from 2016