Above all, preservation management tasks at the BBF are comprised of raising awareness for PAC issues with the senior library management, staff and users as well as the general coordination, planning and organisation of subject-related measures. Preservation andconservation as a special field in library tasks has been integrated into all library routines,
from acquisitions to interlibrary loans and loans for exhibitions up to digitisation. PAC
routines at the BBF are dominated by direct preventive care activities (such as book care,
condition survey, boxing, rehousing and protective measures) and indirect preventive care
activities (such as environmental monitoring and documentation, furnishings, storing
conditions and hygiene in repositories). Apart from preservation, we aim at the qualitative
and quantitative development of conservation-measures with a particular focus on massphenomenasuch as the deterioration of acidic papers or red rot.