A iluminação em acervos arquivísticos: estudo no arquivo da Fundação Casa José Américo

Abstract

The present paper has as main theme the importance of lighting projects in archives and the care with the action of the illumination in the collection of the Casa de José Américo Foundation. It aims to investigate the kind of illumination that is used in the Archive of the Casa de José Américo Foundation, seeking for reflect about the preservation of archival collections by means of lighting plans. The study is characterized as bibliographic and descriptive with qualitative approach, which used semi-structured interview as data collection instrument, in order to evidence the situation in which illumination was found and the effects that it has provoked in relation to the collection. The results demonstrated that the archive professional has a superficial knowledge about recommendations and appropriate standards to an adequate illumination, once there are some problems with illumination, not obeying the standards and the needed care that guarantee the collection protection. Therefore, it is concluded that a lighting project would be the most appropriate to solution the fails that were found, together with a plan of periodic maintenance to keep a good functioning of the archives.