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04.28.08
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BNDES increases document collection preservation funds to R$ 8 million
BNDES approved an increase for the Public Selection of
Document Collection Preservation Projects of 2008. The funds
will jump from R$ 6 million to R$ 8 million. The maximum
limit for each project, previously R$ 500 thousand, jumps to
R$ 800 thousand. Enrollments for this year’s selection will
be open from Monday 30 through June 6.
The non-reimbursable financial support is intended to the
recovery of text, iconographic, sound and visual documents
belonging to archive collections. It also covers hard
copies, books and rare journals, as well as all kinds of
material testimonials, under the custody of a museum or a
similar institution.
After the request for proposals is sent to bidding
institutions through the BNDES website on Wednesday 30, at
www.bndes.gov.br, the projects submitted will be reviewed by
the commission in charge of the process.
The commission consists of three specialists and
representatives of BNDES and the Culture Ministry. The
selection process will have a phase where all projects
enrolled will be analyzed and ranked according to the score
attained. In the following phase, all documents belonging to
the shortlisted projects will be legally reviewed for
qualification and registration check of the bidder and the
institution holding the documental collection. And lastly,
after a technical visit to the shortlisted institutions, a
list of the winning projects is disclosed.
From October 5, 2004 – when BNDES designed the Program for
Support of Documental Collection Preservation Projects –, up
to now, three requests for proposals have been issued and 97
projects have been supported, with funds amounting to R$
16,4 million. BNDES is currently one of the institutions
that most invest in the preservation of documents, as it is
aware of the difficulties faced in the protection of archive,
bibliographic and museum-related documents in Brazil.
The program intends to modernize museums, archives and
libraries, to preserve and safeguard their documents, as
well as improve the service and access of people. The Bank,
then, has designed a financial support divided into the
following phases: catalogue organization, cleaning and
packaging, restoration, environmental management, security
and infrastructure system installation.
Since the program was designed, BNDES has received a greater
demand for projects from several Brazilian institutions and
regions. Likewise, with the Bank's ongoing support, renowned
cultural institutions that have undergone the fundamental
phaes of the document collection restoration process,
outline in their request for proposal increasingly robust
and elaborate projects, which caused BNDES to consider the
importance of increasing the financial support.
The previous request for proposals included projects such as
the restructuring of the Historic Collection of Santa Casa
de Misericórdia in Bahia; the catalogue organization and
cleaning of documents concerning the arrival of foreigners
to Brazil, kept by Arquivo Nacional (the Brazilian National
Archive), in Rio de Janeiro; structural improvements and
safeguarding for the collection of Museu de Marajó, in Pará;
modernization and enlargement of the security systems
protecting the Art Gallery of São Paulo state; and the
conservation and technical processing of Informação do Fundo
de Códices do Arquivo Público do Paraná (Paraná State Public
Archive Codex Fund Information).
Last year, BNDES received 213 enrollments and, out of these,
192 were reviewed. Out of the projects received, 52% came
from the Southeast region, 24% from the Northeast, 15% from
the South, 6% from the North and 3% from the Center West.
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