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Consultancy Agency and Workshop for Preservation, Conservation and Restoration of Books,
Archival Materials and Graphic Arts. Preservation Management for Libraries and Archives.
Diploma HICOREB. Accredited Conservator Restorer. Member of the Institute of Paper Conservation.
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Educational Curriculum.

  • Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE): State College of Education - Ghent (B) on 22th June 1976.
  • Degree of Professional Bookbinding - Municipal Institute of Technology - Ghent (B) with distinction on 18th June 1984.
  • Postgraduate Diploma of Conservation and Restoration of Paper and Books - Higher Institute for the Conservation and the Restoration of the Book (HICOREB) Ghent (B) with distinction on 27th June 1987. (3 year course / 1984-1987).

Thesis: Preservation, Conservation and Restoration of Papyrus.

Supervisor: Michael Fackelmann (Institut für Restaurierung, National Bibliothek, Vienna (Austria) (published in Dutch).

  • Degree of Professional Guilding - Municipal Institute of Technology - Ghent (B) with distinction on 15th June 1988.
  • Several specialized courses in Bookbinding organized by the Flemish Guild of Handbookbinders Ghent (B) since 1982.
  • Several specialized courses in conservation and restoration of books, parchment and graphic art, organized by the Higher Institute for the Conservation and Restoration of the Book (HICOREB) - Ghent (B) since 1988.
  • Further training in the Institut für Restaurierung, National Bibliothek, Vienna (Austria) in January - February 1988.
  • Postgraduate course in ICCROM "Fundamental Techniques for the Restoration of Japanese Art on Paper" Geneva (Switzerland) from 13th until 25th August 1990.

  • Postgraduate course "Preservation Management for Libraries and Archives" the School of Information, Library and Archive Studies (SILAS) at the University of New South Wales (Australia) 1999.
  • Postgraduate workshop on "Management of Photographic Collections" (Sepia), the European Commission on Preservation and Access, Copenhagen, May 1-5, 2000.
Training and tuition received, amongst others, from:

Bernard Middleton (UK), Christopher Clarkson (UK),
Nicholas Pickwoad (UK), Otto Wächter (Austria),
Ole Olsen (Denmark), Arthur Johnson (UK), Denise Lubett (UK), Jen Lindsay (UK), Otto Wächter (Austria),
Verena Flamm (Austria), Maureen Duke (UK),
Dag Ernst Petersen (Germany), Katsuhiko Masuda (Japan), Dr.Jan Storm van Leeuwen (NL), Michael Fackelmann (Austria), Dr. Gerhard Banik (Germany).

 
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