Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
Between 1997 and 2001, the inter-institutional cooperative project Preventive Conservation in Libraries and Archives was developed in Brazil, with the support of the Mellon, Vitae foundations and the Commission on Preservation and Access. The project translated into Portuguese, published and freely distributed 52 texts on the preservation of textual, photographic, filmic, magnetic and digital collections. It held seminars in the five regions of the country and formed a cooperation network that, in the following years, contributed to the dissemination of information on preventive conservation, involving professionals from a large number of institutions. In 1991 the CPBA Project released a second printed edition of its publications, with the addition of new text, the RLG Manual for Document Microfilming. The 53 texts are also available online on its website, http://www.cpba.net," target="_blank" title="www.cpba.net, www.cpba.net, hosted at the State University of Campinas . The Preventive Conservation in Libraries and Archives project ended its activities in 2001, with the certainty of having contributed to a broad awareness of the importance of preventive conservation in the preservation of collections. By holding, as the last event, the "I Meeting on Teaching Preservation", in partnership with the School of Library Science at UNIRIO, it emphasized the need to create, as a first step towards the professional training of conservators, the compulsory discipline of Conservation Preventive in Librarianship, Archival Science and Museology courses.
