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Dr. Zubair Mahmood is presently working as Incharge, Reference, Theses and Research Division in Dr. Zakir Husain Library, Jamia Millia Islamia, (NAAC Accredited A++ Grade), A Central University, New Delhi and performs a wide range of services like documentation, indexing, providing references and research support and guiding the National and International research scholars from all over the world who visit the Library. He is an experienced Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the education and management areas and well skilled in E-Learning, Curriculum Development, Staff Development, and Educational Leadership. An eminent library professional, Dr. Mahmood has been educated at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh with M.A. (History). M.A. (Persian), M.A. (Urdu), M.LI.Sc. And Ph.D. degrees in Library and Information Sciences on topic "Conservation and Preservation of Manuscripts in Rampur Raza Library, Rampur and Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna: A comparative study" During his long career of almost 27 years at JNU, DESIDOC , Rampur Raza Library and now Jamia Millia Islamia, he has been intimately connected with numerous national and international organization of conservation and preservation and also library and information sciences. He has published several papers in Seminars, Conventions, Conference proceedings and Refereed Journals, participated and presented Papers in National & International Seminars/Conferences/ Workshops. He also has teaching and counselling experience in Library & Information Science for more than a decade. Dr. Mahmood has edited three books of Historiography for the course of M.A. in History for Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, i.e. (i) Pre-Modern Tradition. (ii) Approaches to History in Modern Times. (iii) Approaches and Themes in Indian Historiography, compiled and computerized eight volumes of Catalogue of English printed Books of Rampur Raza Library Rare Collection.1999 and prepared a Compact Disk of Complete Research Works of Six Eminent Indian Scientists titled (1) Vikram Sarabai (2) Birbal Sahani (3) Homi Jahangir Bhabha (4) S.S. Bhatnagar (5) D.N. Wadia (6) J.C. Bose at Indian National Scientific Documentation Center (INSDOC) (CSIR) New Delhi for their computerization division.

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Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Evolution of Writing Materials Chapter 3. Early Writing Materials in India Chapter 4. Conservation and Preservation Chapter 5. Concept of Conservation and Preservation of Manuscripts Chapter 6. Factors for Deterioration of Paper Chapter 7. Physical and Environmental Deterioration Chapter 8. Biological Deterioration Chapter 9. Chemical Deterioration Chapter 10. Elements of Conservation Chapter 11. Examination Chapter 12. Preventive Conservation Chapter 13. Curative Conservation Chapter 14. Restorative Conservation Chapter 15. Micro and Macro-Reproduction Chapter 16. Preservation of Palm Leaf Manuscripts Chapter 17. Preservation of Birch Bark Manuscripts Chapter 18. Digital Preservation of Manuscripts Chapter 19. Preservation of Non-Book Materials Chapter 20. Variety of Non-Book Materials and their Preservation Chapter 21. Documents on National Conservation Policy of Manuscripts