Estratégias de preservação e conservação: uma nova adaptação para a biblioteca publica Virginius da Gama e Melo

Abstract

All libraries have a significant value to society, in particular the public libraries, where through them promotes cultural development. In this sense, it is important to preserve and conserve its collection planning the useful life of the documentation safeguarded. The research, by its turn, aims to describe the policies of preservation and conservation of the acquis of the Public Library Virginius da Gama e Melo. The research on the goals is descriptive and through the procedures is a field study with quantiqualitativa approach whose data collection instrument was a questionnaire applied to a sample of three employee of the library. As a result respondents indicate that it is important to the process of preservation of the library, which, in turn, demand improvements. Finally, it concludes that in order to improve and preserve the acquis of the Public Library Virginius da Gama e Melo, it is necessary to implement a policy of preservation of the acquis, carry out training for employees, in addition to the hiring of a professional specialized in conservation to perform operation on damaged documents and develop strategies to protect and provide improvements in terms of the acquis.