IDENTIFICATION OF MICROORGANISMS IN COLONIAL ARCHIVES OF THE ARCHIVE AND NATIONAL LIBRARIES PREVIOUSLY DISINFECTED IN THE INERTS GAS CHAMBER

Abstract

Sucre tourist city that houses a great cultural wealth distributed in the different museums and institutions that contain information from Bolivia as it happens with the National Archives and Library of Bolivia that have an extensive collection in archives with documents dating from colonial times and even books that carry more than a thousand years old whose characteristics motivated the present investigation that based on another one developed in 2016 where microorganisms causing the deterioration in colonial archives of the National Archive and Library of Bolivia were identified, have the objective of identifying microorganisms present in archives Colonial National Archives and Library of Bolivia previously disinfected in inert gas chamber; the investigation was conducted between October 2017 and May 2018 For its development, a descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study was adopted, taking as an object of study 20 colonial archives already studied that contain degrading microorganisms, which were previously disinfected in the inert gas chamber for sampling and subsequent laboratory analysis. to validate the effectiveness of the camera. A higher percentage of bacteria was found in relation to fungi, so the efficiency of the inert gas chamber is higher against fungi, thus validating the chamber. The results achieved will serve to propose treatment alternatives not only to the archives but to all the documents contained in the Archive and National Libraries of Bolivia in order to preserve our History towards future generations and not lose our cultural wealth of Bolivia and the World.