The main themes of the conference are as follows:
1. Detailed description of valuable manuscripts housed in the Asia libraries.
2. Bibliography of manuscripts.
3. Modern methods of preservation of manuscripts.
4. Critical appraisals of collated and edited works and published bibliographies and handlists.
5. Identification of the libraries' potentialities.
6. Editing and publishing so-far-unpublished short treatises and manuscripts.
7. Digitization of manuscripts.
8. Other themes related to the ancient heritage in connection with manuscript-related heritage.
