The training and professional development in the field of restoration and conservation of old books is carried out at the National Museum of Unification Alba-Iulia through job-shadowing and one-on-one tutoring. Two trainers, enjoying massive experience in the field of old book restoration, introduced the two beneficiaries – an employee of the Library of the Romanian Academy Cluj-Napoca Branch, and the other, an employee of the National Museum of Unification Alba-Iulia – in all the stages implied by the field related to the preservation of old books. Thus, the beneficiaries of the training activities went through a stage of theoretical preparation, learning how to elaborate conservation and restoration documents, then to the stages of solubility testing, pigment analysis, pH setting, so that, later, they learned different methods of mechanical cleaning by removing impurities with a soft brush. Thereafter, the two members of our project learned the techniques of fixing soluble colors and pigments, wet cleaning with hydro-alcoholic solutions, consolidating cracks, filling in gaps in material, softening and making protective folders.
