Problemy ochrony zbiorów na łamach periodyków wydawanych przez Instytut Bibliotekoznawstwa i Informacji Naukowej Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach

The article presents ananalysis of the content of three periodicals published by the Institute of Library Science of the University of Silesia in Katowice: “Studia Bibliologiczne”, “Bibliotheca Nostra” and “Nowa Biblioteka”, in reference to the subject‑matter devoted to the protection and the conservation of library collections against damage. The amount of the material which was collected indicates that the problem of the protection of collections constitutes a topical and an important research subject. The results of the analysis enabled one to state that the authors who published their work in the periodicals which are analysed focused on the physico‑chemical and physical threats, as well as on the methods of the renovation of the threatened specimens. They indicated the reasons of the deterioration of the durability of the paper, the examples of good practices, as well as preventive actions whose purpose is to save the collections from utter destruction