Documentos contaminados por fungos: possibilidades de intervenções para recuperar a documentação do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física (PPGF/UFPB)

Abstract

The preservation and conservation of bibliographic and archival collections are important preventive actions to safeguard the memory and heritage of institutions, whether public or private. This paper deals with the possibilities of interventions to recover documents contaminated by fungi. The document preservation and conservation process deals with measures that aim to stabilize damages through the recovery of damaged documents. The objective of this work is to size the procedures of Interventions necessary / appropriate for the recovery of documents contaminated by fungi of the PPGF / UFPB, from the Diagnosis of the Postgraduate Program in Physics (PPGF / UFPB), verifying through the direct observation and theoretical reference, the specificities of the documents contaminated by fungi. The research started with the following guiding question: What intervention procedures can be adopted to recover contaminated documentation from the Postgraduate Program in Physics (PPGF / UFPB)? Methodologically, an exploratory and descriptive study was used. This took the qualitative approach. As an instrument of data collection, observation and semi-structured interviews were used. With this research it was possible to verify that the proliferation of the fungi are caused by several factors, such as a lack of sufficient physical space to store accumulated documentary mass, the lack of control of the relative humidity of the air and the lack of temperature monitoring.