Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
This article presents the partial results of the research entitled 'Study of the preservation condition of Brazilian documents collections 1997 - 1998,' which was developed as a monographic work for the University of Paraná Specialization Course - Conservation of Works on Paper. Aiming to identify the Brazilian institutions responsible for the library and archival collections, in 1997 the Preventive Conservation in Libraries and Archives project distributed 5109 questionnaires to archives, libraries, museums with questions about the conditions of the institutions and its holdings. The analysis object of the research was the universe of 1531 institutions which answered the questionnaire. In this article, the conservation, preservation, and restoration concepts are discussed aiming context the analysis of the data obtained. Some representative points about Brazilian Institutions are showed. After describing the universe of institutions that answered the questionnaire and their collections, the conservation actions did on their institutions are presented - environmental conditions, security, preventive actions (cleaning and rehousing), curative actions (repairs and restoration), and microfilming.
