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Preservation Of Archival Materials In National Archives
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BINDERY / REPAIR/SECTIONS
In
this section in the National Archives Enugu, the main preservation is
done and maintained. The melteriells brought into the institution are
examined to know the ones that are weak. The weak ones are sent to the
buidery and repair section, materials brought into this section are
examined again by the staff in charge to know the type of repair that
will last longer. Millily the traditional repairs and rebined of
documents is mostly done.
The traditional methods is where
baking flour that is in form of paste is used ot rub on the paper mostly
writeups nad pasted to it he write-ups. The flour paste serves as an
adhesive to the paper.
Rebuilding of document is where give
is rubbed on the spine of the text. In this section they bind books,
rebuild books magazines and even projects for outsiders. Some of the
machines in use in this section include:
1 Blocking machine: Is use for giving title ot the books and is
2 Polor: use for cutting of papers.
3 Nipping pressing; Is used to give pressure to the book after binding
4 Backing machine: Is used to give conceive and convex shape to the books.
5 Typing machine: Is used for printing letters of the alphabet on the books.
MR. C.C. ONURAL is in charge of this section and is a Higher Technical Officer.
REPROGRAPHIC SECTION
This
section performs three functions to help it preserving materials. The
first one is microfilming which means reproduction of documents; 33mm
film is what they use. Microfilming is used to preserve the records, in
that large volumes of records will be minimized to contellin in smell
fum. It is easy to remove or evacuate in case of flood and fire
outbreak, it saves the life span of the original copy, if photo
production is another every of preserving the records; this is where old
photographs of personalities are produced. As the photographs become
old and brittle they are photographed to produced another one.
The type of machine used in the reproduction of these old photograph
nad maps is called genography machine photocopying is another medium of
preservation, it help to produced the Archival materials in many
copies.
RESEARCH ROOM
The reason for this section is to provide
reference materials and assistance to researchers, because researchers
are not allowed to go to the shelves or document boxes by themselves
alone to collects materials, as a researchers, you introduce yourself to
the security at the inquiring drop your bag and write your purpose of
coming.
LIBRARY SECTION
The National Archival library is not like
the academic school or public libraries; it is only a departmental
library that preserves books and not Archival materials the library
preserve, acquires and stores wide varieties of books and publications
of government. The books are not catalogued rather they make use of
register catalogue. The library helps users and researchers in their
references works. Books are acquired through authors write-up and
donations. The librarian in charge of this section is MR. CHRISTIAN
UZOR, he is the librarian.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Preservation of Archival materials is very important and very essential for prolonging of information and knowledge form one generation to another. This study discusses the methods of preserving Archival materials. The work is arranged in chapters for easy understanding. The chapters contained in this work are form one to five. The work does not only stop with the protection and safe-guarding of he archives from authorized access and loss resulting from water and fire but the provision of sophis ... Continue reading---
