-- SELECT SPEAKER HERE -- Regie Marie Plana-Alcuaz Azevedo, Inês Marcial R. Batiancila Jody Beenk Lionel E. Buenaflor, PhD Gianina Angela Celine O. Cabanilla P.Chellappandi, PhD | J.P.S.Kumaravel, PhD Lucya Dhamayanti Nolie G. Enem, PhD Julia Gelfand | Anthony Lin Hiroko Honda Margareta Aulia Rachman S. Hum Christine Ianna Mary Ann M. Ingua Lauren P. Kipaan Eimee Rhea C. Lagrama Li Jia, PhD Brendan Luyt, PhD Allan August P. Malig, CISSP Sherwood McCaskie Corazon M. Nera Selina Owen Yona Primadesi Marian S. Ramos-Eclevia Diljit Singh , PhD Y. Sumaryanto Wawta Techataweewan, PhD

Lucya Dhamayanti

National Library of Indonesia

Tsunami Damages and Library Recovery in Nangroe Aceh Darussalam

LUCYA DHAMAYANTI is the Head of General Collection Service Division, National Library of Indonesia. She was Head of the Conservation Division (managing conservation activities, include conservation database developing) in 2001-2005 at the same institution. She has a Postgraduate degree in Library and Information Science. She has written and presented papers on conservation and preservation among which are Eradication of insect and fungus in library collection and Library Damages (Tsunami) and Recovery in Nangroe Aceh Darussalam, Indonesia, presented in Special Library Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2005. She is a member of a number of national and international associations, namely, the Indonesian Heritage Conservation Networking, the Special Library Association, and the International Association of School Librarians.

Abstract

In 26, December 2004, a tsunami destroyed the coastal communities in the North of Sumatra Island. Banda Aceh, the capital of Nangroe Aceh was among the worst destroyed because it was closest to the earthquake’s epicenter. It suffered massive losses of life and property. Libraries and library collections damaged. Fortunately, two of the special libraries where manuscripts are stored, the Ali Hasymy Foundation Library and the Library Pesantren and the BadanPertanahanNasional (Land National Agency) still had some manuscripts and land certificates that could be restored. This paper will describe the recovery procedures followed in restoring some documents and land certificates.