However, it is gratifying to note that in recent past more awareness for preservation of library materials have been created in India. Problems have been identified and recommendations made in various seminars and workshops held in different parts of India. It is felt that the immediate tasks are to survey the special materials found in libraries, to start research modern preservation techniques and to implement it. A comprehensive plan should be made where government and private agencies should work together. A nationwide campaign is to be started to enforce the publishers, paper manufacturers to switch over to acid-free paper manufacture for book production.
Attempt is also to be made to standardise format of preservation.
Indian Bureau of Standards should be given this responsibility. More laboratories with modern facilities should be established in libraries. Ensuring the preservation of materials housed in Indian libraries is a hard work, but it is the work well worth doing and must be done with all sincerity and devotion. In all of this there is a challenge, an opportunity for the librarian who has insight and understanding and imagination, who recognizes that his profession can provide satisfactions to be found in no other area of human activity.