Práticas de preservação e conservação de documentos no Arquivo Geral da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

Abstract

Although they are interchangeable, the media carry information, and without them, there is no archive. Therefore, the media must receive special attention with regard to handling, packaging, storage, among other things, since they are very fragile and susceptible to damage. Thus, the objective of the research is to identify if the preservation and conservation practices adopted by the General Archive of FURG are in agreement with the bibliographical references researched. It is understood that, despite the cost of a preservation program, this is essential in a archive. From the theoretical framework, it can be understood that each support has particular treatment characteristics. In the methodology an approach was made on the methods chosen for the research and the reports of how this occurred. In the results and discussions the data are presented and discussed in order to reach the stipulated objectives. Some issues covered in the framework and research tools were compared in order to verify if the measures adopted by the FURG General Archive were in agreement with the bibliographies researched. It was concluded that at the moment the measures of preservation and conservation are not executed in their entirety in the General Archive. However, the appropriateness of the activities in this sense is only a matter of time, due to the interest shown by both the Administration of the Archive and FURG, indicating that soon the unit can become a reference in the area of archives conservation.