Csapodi, Csaba: Conservation of the Manuscript and Old Book Collections at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Methods and Results. 1949–1964 (A MTAK kiadványai 44. Budapest, 1965)

are locks of hair, pressed flowers and ribbons. Any other method of conservation, such as rebinding, would have been a profanation. If today, one and one-half decades after the beginning of our conservation work we examine our manuscript and old book collections and try to evaluate our results, we see how much more has to be done. Not only must old and defective means of storing manuscripts and damaged portfolios be gradually replaced, or many damaged letters and manuscripts repaired, not only do the thousands of volumes already in storage rooms have to be selected for conservation, but our collection is steadily growing and a great amount of manuscripts and books are received which require protective storage and conservation the same es those already in our possession. The conservation of books and manuscripts is not a single undertaking but a constant last. Thus conservation is just as important to a library as enlargement and processing. 21