Conservation and Maintenance Management Resources

 This study dealt with a vital topic in the library and information sector, which is the preservation of the cultural and knowledge heritage that is crowded with libraries; Libraries are the ones that carry out preservation, conservation, treatment and restoration operations in order to return the resource to a form close to the original. Preserving library materials is not limited to the physical aspect only, but also includes the knowledge content to prevent damage to these resources, but some problems may occur in libraries as a result of the misuse of these media Whether from the Librarians themselves or the users, or as a result of disasters that occur in libraries such as many Factors : climatic, weather, geophysical, biological or man-made disasters such as theft, libricide, destruction and others Then the study dealt with another topic, which is the disinfection  and fumigation processes, which were carried out using traditional methods that directly affected the damage and deterioration of these information resources and the health of Librarians, and then a major shift occurred at the end of the twentieth century by using non-toxic materials in sterilization such as low oxygen atmospheres (Veloxy), and freezing processes in order to kill insects and microbes; Therefore, it was necessary to search for a way to change the concepts of users and librarians in dealing with and preserving these resources ; Presenting a proposed program for teaching the science of preserving and conservation cultural and heritage library resources.