This article focuses on actions to preserve its collections as regards the construction and expansion of the Central Library of the Federal University of Santa Maria. Therefore, it was necessary to check the history of the University and the Library, focusing on its architectural design in the modernist style. Therefore presents the architects responsible for its design and discusses the characteristics of its construction and the reform that is being held in the basement of the Library. Also points out, preservation policies adopted so far in order to reduce the problems observed. Concludes that it is necessary to formalize a policy of building improvements in order to minimize the impacts caused by biological agents and environmental factors, prevent accidents and enable servers to safeguard the collection.
Architecture; Federal University of Santa Maria; Policies collection preservation; Preservation of documents; University Library
