On the 24 of October Dr. Hossein Ali Jafarian, who is the Head of the Department of Restoration of the Library of the Majlis of the Islamic Republic of Iran, visited the Department of Manuscripts, the Department of Microfilming and the Centre of Conservating and Restoring Documents of M.M. Rudomino Library of Foreign Literature together with Seyyid Nasser Tabaei who is the Head of «Sadra» Publishing House. The visit was organized with the assistance of Ibn Sina Foundation.
The staff of the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library arranged a presentation of Oriental manuscripts. They acquainted the guest with Department’s activities and its services and technologies. Dr. H.A. Jafarian shared information about methods of preserving manuscripts in Iran.
The staff of the Department of Microfilming spoke on methods of protecting and preserving newspapers’ copies.
The Centre of Conservating and Restoring Manuscripts of M.M. Rudomino Library of Foreign Literature presented the activities of the restoration workshop and laboratory.
On the 25 of October Dr. H.A. Jafarian together with S.N. Tabaei visited the Department of Restoration of the Library Foundations of the Russian State Library where he discovered technologies of preserving various documents and manuscripts and held his own master class on restoring book bindings in the Iranian tradition.
