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"Almost all of our external support from grants has disappeared – not because we failed to get them, but because the agencies which award them feel that democracy is firmly entrenched in the Czech Republic and that they need to shift their support to the states of the former Soviet Union."
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Pollutants contribute heavily to the deterioration of library and archival materials. The two major types of pollutants are gases and particulates. Gaseous contaminants — especially sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, peroxides, and ozone — catalyzes harmful chemical reactions that lead to the formation of acid in materials. This is a serious problem for paper and leather, which are particularly vulnerable to damage caused by acid. The paper changes colour and becomes brittle, and leather becomes weak and powdery. Particulates — especially soot — abrade, soil, and disfigure materials.
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Preventive preservation of the cultural heritage represents the safest and most economical way by means of which the collection owners or custodians avoid difficulties related to the restoration of the degraded objects (difficulties such as high costs for such interventions or the decrease in the value of the objects on the market). Preventing the insects’ attack on the collections requires simple steps that are to create a clean preserving environment, with adequate microclimatic parameters, to eliminate the elements that could attract the pests inside and to prohibit the introduction of new objects into storage facilities without being checked and taken through quarantine measures by the conservators.
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