The National Library of Greece: moving into a new era (original) (raw)
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Moving the manuscripts of the National Library of Greece to a new home
Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 17, 2021
The National Library of Greece holds one of the largest collections of Greek manuscripts worldwide, comprising of approximately 5,500 bound volumes and scrolls from as early as the 9th century AD. Housed since 1903 in an imposing historic building at the centre of Athens, the National Library of Greece is currently undergoing a challenging transition to a new era and a necessary move to a new home. Following a massive development project at the Athenian coastline funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, new facilities have been constructed for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center that includes the National Library, the National Opera and the Stavros Niarchos Park. The library is fully engaged in a complex project to achieve this transition. This paper discusses the challenges that were faced by the Conservation Department of the National Library of Greece towards moving one of the rarest Greek manuscript collections. It further describes the planning and actions that were followed by the Conservation Department to ensure the safe and successful transfer of the collection. This massive endeavor, included a wide range of activities that attend to preservation, such as preparatory actions, risk assessment management, remedial and preventive conservation actions, packing and finally the transfer and reorganization of the collection at the new facilities.
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The concept of preservation is included with the maintenance of libraries and archives since ancient times. Libraries need to preserve its collection in order to protect and preserve the history and culture of a nation for the posterity. Preservation is considered as the fundamental and an important task of the libraries. Traditionally some organic and natural methods were used to keep the books and other materials physically usable for a long time by slowing down or preventing their decay. Then we developed a more advanced way of preserving the materials in digital format. Though digital preservation needs constant attention still it is a long-term storage of information. This study is a review work from the Library and Information Science [LISA]. The study aims to know about the various traditional and digital methods of preservation and to identify the principal language of the research works and the journal in which maximum works were done.