📋 Tender Overview
The National Library of Peru protects the invaluable cultural legacy of the country, with strategies for preservation, digitalization and legal protection. The National Library of Peru (BNP), as a guardian of the countrys historical memory, has recovered more than 43,000 bibliographic materials affected by pests, from August 2024 to date, thanks to the implementation of a pest control strategy, aimed at protecting the invaluable cultural legacy that the entity protects.
The first cultural institution of Independent Peru, which custody 7.5 million documentary bibliographic materials, focuses its efforts on fighting the effects of the attack of xylophagous fungi and insects, in its 19 repositories (15 at the headquarters of San Borja and four in the Great Public Library of Lima).
In this regard, it is important to highlight that all recovered materials belong to the old background and the vault, at the headquarters of San Borja, where the oldest and most valuable materials are preserved, as well as the bibliographic jewels.
Similarly, to limit its deterioration, due to excessive manipulation, 953 documentary bibliographic materials have been digitized from August 2024 to date, including books, brochures, microfilms, audiovisual material and photographic collection.
In this way, the National Library of Peru renews its commitment to the protection of the invaluable cultural legacy, so that it is accessible to all citizens and can be inherited by future generations.
Protected Memory
The BNP has also protected the collective memory of the country by achieving that, since August last year, a total of 160 works are declared as Cultural Heritage of the Nation (PCN) by the Ministry of Culture. In this way, the protection and conservation of bibliographic materials with historical and cultural value is guaranteed.
The declarations of cartographic documents (1598-1717), scientific, historical and literary texts such as Manuel Antonio Muniz Sevilla (1896-1897), Jose Joaquin de Olmedo (1826) and Narciso Arestegui (1848), as well as that of the documentary collection of the Independence of Peru (1971-1976).
Likewise, the preservation of publications such as Peruvian feminism (1924-1938) of Zoila Aurora Caceres and the Journal of Law and Political Science (1936-1950) has been ensured. Thanks to this initiative, national research and memory are strengthened.
Bibliographic goods delivery
After 20 years, the National Library of Peru resumed the initiative to return patrimonial goods, restoring three books recovered from illicit traffic to their respective institutions.
Two of these were delivered to the convent of San Francisco de Lima: The Sun and Happy Year of Peru (1735) and Ioannis Petri Maffeii Bergomatis e Societate Iesu, Historiarum indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum item ex India Epistolarum eodem interpreted Libri IIII. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae Vita Postremo Post.
The third book was R. P. Haiemiae Drexelij, and Societate IESV, Opevm. Tomvs Trusts (1675), which was restored to the National University of San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC), reinforcing the commitment to the preservation of the national bibliographic heritage.
