Preservation Risk Assessment Survey of the University of Botswana Library

Аннотация

Libraries and archives are tasked with the responsibility of providing access of information to the public and stakeholders in the present and future years to come. This can be achieved through various strategies which fall in the realm of preservation management. Among others, these include adapting to risk management approaches. In that regard, towards the beginning o f the year 2013 the University of Botswana Library Conservator was tasked with the responsibility to conduct a preservation riskassessment in order to address deterioration issues of collections in the university library. This article sought to report the findings on the preservation risk assessment and recommendations on the strategy fo rimprovement.