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This study is aimed to investigate the conservation, restoration and preservation state of manuscripts in Pakistan. The study was conducted on 13 selective institutions of Pakistan, holding MS collections. Through interviews and documentary research the conservation and preservation situations were inquired.

"Dr. Raúl Prebisch" and "Tornquist" libraries of the Bank Central of the Republic Argentina in order to preserve and disseminate the information contained in its historical collections, maintain existing within their permanent tasks program of preservation and conservation of the documentary bibliographic heritage. They specialize in economy, devoting special attention to monetary and financial issues. Its bibliographic holdings cover in addition areas of economic history, statistics, finance, banking law, sugar industry, national finance, agriculture, settlement and other related materials. Collections that treasures, unique in the country some have placed them at a level of recognized position in the academic areas of the country and abroad. They possess a valuable Sector of historical documents pertaining to national public credit and former banks, under the Central Bank functions as ente Rector of the financial system, along with historical documents of interest for researchers and scholars of our economic and financial history. The ultimate goal is to achieve the society have free access to the information that is part of the economic, financial, political and social history of our country.

Historically the communication of the results of scientific research in a peer-reviewed journal played as a distinctive seal in the scientific communication. However, such results have also been communicated in many other forms; recently the models for scientific communication have been updated to include the access to online publications, videoconferences, e-mailing discussion lists, news boards, e-mail, and access to electronic documents. With the advent of the first scientific journals by the end of the 18th century it allowed the creation of a flexible channel of publication, with an increasing value until our present days, that made easy, both, the recording of ideas and the exchange of ideas and experiences among scientists. Nowadays the Internet network has stimulated the offer to alter the traditional channels of communication; it came to take care of (release) the anxiety of scientists and other academics to disseminate fastly their knowledge and to learn knowledge from the studies and research of others, likewise it contributes to diminish the problem of the difficulty to locate and access grey literature documents. At the beginning of the 1990s decade, in the pure sciences, remarkedly in physics a new channel has come on board that has been conducive to the dissemination and full access to the research results. They have been named "e-print" servers or archives, and they have been converted into an autonomous circuit of information with its own rules of functioning, cristalizing in a primary source of information and a labour tool of inestimable value.

The report has presented the New Bulgarian University Library (NBU) in brief. The authors described the NBU library foundation and background, organizational structure, acquisition methods, libraries collections and statistical data 1994-2001. The NBU Library SWOT analysis has been mentioned as a conclusion.

The study argues that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Development in a university, research institute or organization whose mandate is not electronics, computer hardware or software development and or related research is not acquisition, research, development or distribution of ICT related stacks and solutions. It is mainly application of ICT to improve speed, efficiency and quality of activities which are the institute’s mandate, and development of an ICT infrastructure to facilitate that. Hence ICT should mean there the convergence of information recorded in traditional and digital media, their storage, organization, retrieval and dissemination and application of ICT related tools for these functions. These are the functions traditionally undertaken by library and information service professionals. Information or content which is to be the life blood of an organization is to be pumped by its heart the library. Hence the paper strongly recommends that in forming ICT Strategy and in ICT Infrastructure Development in an Institution the major role is to be played by librarian or the Head, who is responsible for managing the information resources of that Institution.