Abstract
In a time with huge amount of information on the Internet, one question has been recurrent: why preserve old and outdated bibliographic collections? Because institutions invested and invest in information, keeping printed collections of great relevance - for their content and use by researchers, students and community - as well as rare material. This paper presents the experience related to the development of a preservation project of specialized bibliographic collection in the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), consisting in the elaboration of a preservation policy of bibliographic collection for Embrapa System of Libraries (SEB), followed by an campaign with the slogan "Who preserves have!", that hat the objective of internalizing the necessary care with the collection. Moreover, the project also made possible to elaborate a preventive conservation manual and a collection development policy.
Keywords:
Collection preservation; Collection development; Information management; Embrapa