International Information and Documents Center
on the Problems of Removed Cultural Valuables

International Information and Documents Center on the Problems of Removed Cultural Valuables is a new unit of the LFFL, launched in 2001 on the basis of the Scientific Research Rare Books Department.

The Department accumulated substantial experience, related to ascription, description and compilation of bibliographic indexes of book collections, removed as a result of World War II. Numerous conferences, exhibitions and various meetings were held on the topic. Since 1996 the employees of the Department participate in editing and publishing of the Russian language version of the international newsletter "Spoils of War".

Mission of the Center

To further the return of the historical and artistic valuables, removed during the World War II and located in museums, libraries and archives, to the world cultural and scientific circulation.

Main activities:

• active promotion of creation of information field on the problems of cultural valuables, removed during World War II;
• meeting information and research needs of society on the problems of removed cultural valuables;
• creation on the LFFL web server of the site "Removed Cultural Valuables" for locating information on various aspects of the problem;
• organization and holding conferences, seminars, round tables and exhibitions recruiting national and international experts;
• initiation and implementation of international projects, aimed at the providing free access to the information about removed cultural valuables;
• collecting the materials for the international newsletter "Spoils of War";
• translation into Russian , publishing and distribution of the international newsletter "Spoils of War" in Russia;
• involving into the Center's activities representatives of state institutions, international commissions, independent experts, media.

Director of the Center
Dmitrieva Karina Aleksandrovna
109189 Moscow, 1 Nikoloyamskaya St.,
tel/fax: (095) 915-57-28
e-mail: kdmitrieva@libfl.ru
www.libfl.ru/restitution