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Conservation strategy
Each of the conservation activities can be developed into strategies that guide how the organization will undertake conservation.
The strategy need to consider following, V What - identifying priorities, what has to happen first, what can wait ? V When - establishing realistic schedules, when these priorities need to be
achieve? V How - identifying resources, what is required to achieve these priorities?
Survey
A survey should be done to know the range of collection (rarity, material, and its location), to know the enemies of the collection (biological activities, atmospheric pollutants, climatic problems viz. temperature, humidity etc.) to know the building strength (water seepage, flaking of plaster/paint, furniture strength, vegetation on the walls etc.)
The survey report will enable the organization to define the preservation priorities for the organization by examining and assessing it. Storage
Storage area should be kept clean, well organized, managed, pest free and manuscript collection should be protected with appropriate conservation grade packing.
Periodical inspection should be done to check the action of deteriorating activities. Damaged manuscripts should be detected and should be kept separate for future conservation work, and to avoid its contact with other non-affected manuscripts.
By setting priorities, up gradation of the storage standards should be done with adequate budget. e.g. Change of acidic storage material with non-acidic and non harming material for user and collection, installation of advance technology supported equipment like fire sensors and extinguishers, c.c. cameras, insect traps etc.
System to Safe-guard the Collection
Collection can be safe-guarded in the organization through the specification and management of following systems, according to the need of the organization.
