O bibliotecário e a conservação preventiva: uma relação necessária

Abstract

This live is part of the Information Records project: dialogues between Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science (CI); coordinated by the Superintendent of the University Library System (SIBI/UFBA), Professor Ivana Borges Lins, in partnership with the Information Science Institute (ICI)/UFBA. Live mediated by Prof. Dr. Ivana Lins. Prof. Dr. Fabiano Cataldo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/UNIRIO) in his speech, explains that preventive conservation is not synonymous with restoration and because there is a conceptual mistake, many professionals understand preventive conservation as not attribution of the librarian, but the professor clarifies that this action part of the set of responsibilities of this professional. Preventive conservation is having a deep knowledge of the library, it is necessary to understand it beyond the cleaning of books, it encompasses environmental monitoring and cited examples: investigating whether the library has environmental conditions to function, being aware of what can cause the lack of maintenance electrical equipment, risk management (eg, theft prevention), digital preservation and others. Fabiano Cataldo explained preventive conservation in university libraries, guardians of scientific and technological heritage, in addition to talking about conservation management in Librarianship and Archival Science courses. Within the theme, he highlighted the role of the manager librarian, who must work in partnership with other professionals: restorer, chemist, conservator, biologist; know and implement biosafety protocols in the library routine. He declared that: - the post-pandemic world will demand from librarians, from undergraduate students knowledge of preventive conservation; - the preservation of support is also a matter of citizenship.