A conservação dos documentos do arquivo setorial do Centro de Educação: um estudo de caso

Abstract

This study has as general objective to investigate the conservation measures of the Sectorial Archive of the Education Center of the Federal University of Santa Maria, with emphasis on the agents that can cause deterioration in the documents. The relevance of this research is due to the fact that the place of study is inserted in a public institution, thus exercising the function of facilitating access to information, since the archives have scientific, cultural and historical value. This is a qualitative research with case study characteristics. The data collection was done by means of a questionnaire with the Archivist responsible for the Sectorial Archive. Based on the observation of the collected data, the conservation measures of the collection studied with the General Archive Department of the same institution are analyzed in a comparative way. Thus, as regards the preservation of documents, measures are proposed according to the need of the Sectoral Archive.