LIS405E3 Preservation and Conservation of Library and Archival Materials

FULLY SOLVED BOOK LASY 5 YEARS PAPERS SOLVED PLUS GUESS

Unit 1 Preservation and Conservation
 Definition, Need, Policy and planning
 History of preservation of documentary repositories. Evolution of writing materials
 Types of library materials- paper documents, physical elements of book, Non-book materials,
digital object
 Enemies of Library materials: physical agents, chemical agents and biological agents.
Unit 2 Management of Preservation programme
 Organization and Planning of preservation Programmes
 Materials, structure, manufacturing technology and development of written media
 Technology and structure of records
 Main components of library records.
Unit 3 Restoration of Documents
 Cleaning, Removal of stains, fumigation, de-acidification, Lamination, encapsulation of documents
including those of manuscripts, rare documents, paintings and maps
 Bindings of documents: Purpose, Kinds of bindings-Publishers casing, paperbacks, reinforced
binding
 Binding Materials- Covering materials, sewing and pasting materials, ornamentation materials;
Management of binding work.
Unit 4 Special Preservation Processing
 Machine Readable form – microfilming, databases, CD-ROM
 Environmental control
 Binding design, planning
 Furniture and fittings
Unit 5 Preservation of Digital Resources
 Concept, Purpose of Digital preservation
 Planning, Steps for Digital preservation
 Process of Digital preservation
 National and International Initiatives