Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química: um estudo sobre conservação preventiva

Abstract

The document collections present mostly documents in form of paper. Archivists and managers of public or private institutions are worried about various problems related to the deterioration of documentary heritage. Whit this basis, the collection of documents of the Post Graduate in Chemistry was visited in order to examine and organize a pre-conservation with reference to clean the documents. These collections are located in a setorial library inside of the building number 18 that belongs to the Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas of the Federal University of Santa Maria.Through this work, it has been aimed an identification of the environmental conditions, an storage of the documents to observe the physical facilities of the sector file trying to identify the possible biological degradation that may exists in the collection. We will try to describe cleaning procedures that could be applied in the collection, suggesting methods to control of biological agents and finally to attempt to outline a suitable process of cleaning the collection of documents, showing leaders the importance of conducting a process of preventive conservation with emphasis on cleanliness of documents and the environment where they are stored.