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Obituary
Bihanne Wassink 1957 - 2008
24 April. Bihanne Wassink, paper conservator at the National Archives of Netherlands and an ICCROM course lecturer, died unexpectedly on 21 April 2008, aged 50, at her home in The Hague, Netherlands.
She was educated in paper and book conservation, and had been working since 1981 as a paper conservator at the Nationaal Archief (National Archives of the Netherlands). She was also a conservation advisor for the International Conservation Centre of the National Archives and advisor for disaster management in the National Archives. In a short time, Bihanne acquired a sound knowledge of disaster preparedness for collections of cultural heritage and became an authority in the field.
She was one of the authors of ‘Preservation of Archives in Tropical Climates’ (Comma 2001.3-4), for which she prepared the section on disaster preparedness. Recently, she had been managing the 'Haagse Preventie Netwerk / Haagse Pilot', a project aiming at co-operation on disaster preparedness planning between twenty museums, libraries and archives in The Hague. Bihanne also contributed significantly to a current project of ICCROM, GCI and ICOM, ‘Teamwork for Integrated Emergency Management (TIEM) ’ in South East Europe.
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