Fungal occurrence in library collections in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Paixão, Germana Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Rizzo, Roberta Silva, de Lima, Ari Clecius Alves, Pantoja, Lydia Dayanne Maia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Direito Civil (Online)
• DOI: 10.20396/rdbci.v14i1.8640649
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8640649
• topic: Fungi. Bibliographic documents. Library.; Fungos Anemófilos e livros; Fungo. Documentos bibliográficos. Biblioteca.; Fungos Anemófilos e livros

At present the conservation of bibliographic documents presents complex and diverse problems, despite greater awareness theme in recent years. In this context, this research aims to know the fungal spectrum of public reference library collections in the city of Fortaleza-CE. Every two months, 24 months, 05 samples / from library books and / or randomly chosen historical documents have been analyzed, totaling 180 samples in total. Samples were harvested through sterile swabs, rubbed for 30 seconds and then transported in sterile saline. Upon arrival at the laboratory, samples were seeded in culture medium Potato Dextrose Agar (Himedia®) and incubated for 7 days (26 - 28 ° C) with subsequent global count and identification of fungal colonies based on macro- and micromorphological. Of total works analyzed 86% were positive for fungi. In libraries A, B and C were accounted for 3,612, 4,235 and 2,978 fungal colonies, respectively and identified 55 different fungal findings (29 genera and 26 fungal species), highlighting the hialomicetos Aspergillus and Penicillium. The results showed a strong correlation with some clusters, that is, when a fungal findings occurs, the other group findings can also be present in the analyzed books, namely: Libraries A and B (Aspergillus sp, Aspergillus flavus, and Apergillus niger and Penicillium sp.) and C Library (Aspergillus niger, Trichoderma sp. and Penicillium sp.). The research allowed to offer managers of libraries, elements to deepen their knowledge in the field of preservation and conservation of literary invaluable.