International Course on Paper Conservation in Latin America. Meeting East. An evaluation after five years

Abstract

The aim of this article is to disseminate the first conclusions from a poll applied on 2017. The poll was designed by the personnel from the Documentary Heritage Laboratory at the Coordinación Nacional de Conservación Del Patrimonio Cultural (CNCPC) and it was created to assess the first five editions of the “International Course on Paper Conservation in Latin America. Meeting East”. (2012–2016). The article addresses the course background: how it began, its content and the people involved. Later, we will talk about the assessment objectives, followed by its methodological approach, a description of the group it was applied to and then intention of the study, the instrumentation sections, some results and initial conclusions.