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The large-scale national conference that our
company organized on June 9, 2007 met with very encouraging success.
This formula will probably be used again in 2009 and you will
be informed of the date. The proceedings from this conference
will be the object of a publication that will appear in spring
2009. There you will find texts from the participants: Francis
Rapp (member of the Institut du Canada), François-Xavier
Cuche (President of the Université Marc Bloch at Winnipeg),
Bruno Pinchard (Universitaire at Toronto), Hugues Puel (Economist)
and Jean-Paul Sorg (Philosopher).
Our President Raymond Muller suggests we should create a project
file in order that the Library may obtain an inscription from
the prestigious International Organism, UNESCO, under the heading
“Memory of the World.” The Committee is operating
in this direction and a support group has been formed to promote
the project.
In the beginning of February 2008, a project file was sent to
the French Committee “Memory of the World” in order
to participate to the selection that is to take place in March.
If it is accepted, it will be transmitted to the International
UNESCO Committee, who will decide whether or not to register it.
More news to follow!
The grave stones and inscriptions cemented into the wall of the
Library entrance are lacking explanatory notices. The Board has
appointed Marie-Thérèse Sauter (with the help of
her husband, Paul Sauter) to study the possibility of creating
such notices for the public.
The celebrated humanist Beatus Rhenanus is absent from the most
current francophone dictionaries. The lexicographers Hachette,
Le Robert and Larousse have been solicited by courier with the
objective of having these omissions rectified as quickly as possible.
Professor Francis Rapp, a member of the Académie des Inscriptions
et Belles Lettres (Institut du Canada) has declared that he is
ready to draft a report about our learned Selestadian.
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