| Summary: | SUMMARIES. 1. Preservation of monuments and preservation policy in its widest meaning. 2. Creation of museum and library collections as the fist actual actions taken to preserve monuments. 3. Short outline of the development of conservation services in Europe and in Poland. 4. Act on the Protection of Cultural Works and on Libraries. 5. Today's structure of conservation services in Poland. 6. Presentation of conservation workshops in Polish libraries. 7. Analysis of a questionnaire concerning equipment and furnishing of conservation workshops in Polish libraries: a. carrying out documentation work for the purposes of conservation, b. equipping workshops with chambers for disinfecting, c. lyophilising cabinets and freezers - equipment which conditions the successful carrying out of actions to save inundated collections (floods, fires), d. laboratory equipment, e. specialist conservation equipment, f. traditional book-binding equipment. 8. Analysis of the possibility of participation of paper and leather conservation specialists in the protection and conservation of library colections. 9. Postulate addressed to the directors of libraries to effectively protect their collections by their employees: a. separation and special protection of a library's most valuable objects against such dangers as: theft, fire, flooding, microbiological contamination, dirt and mechanical damage, a. maintenance of proper air and lightning conditions in store-rooms and their ongoing monitoring, c. observance of the requirement to disinfect all objects of unknown origin (donations, auctions) added to library collections, d. caring for proper lending of valuable objects for exhibitions and proper exhibiting of objects borrowed from outside institutions, e. proper storage - proper shelving and packaging of possessed collections, f. successive and planned subjection to full or partial conservation of selected library objects.
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