The purpose of this research was to study the preservation and conservation of information resources in Thai university libraries, a qualitative research. The samples were 38 administrators and practitioners in the preservation and conservation of information resources in 15 public university libraries using purposive random sampling. The research instruments were semi-structured in-depth interviews. The qualitative data analysis used inductive content analysis. The results of this research on the preservation of information resources in Thai university libraries 1) Policy all university libraries, there was no direct written policy regarding the preservation of information resources, but there were related policies inserted in the operation, disseminated both internally and externally through various channels such as announcements, websites and quality assurance 2) Regarding information resources, most universities had preserved information resources such as university documents and university archives, rare books, ancient documents / manuscripts, rare documents of historical importance old journals and newspapers and microfilm and 3) Regarding the information resource preservation process, most university libraries had information resource preservation processes, classified by each type of information resource use methods to kill insects and fungi, environmental protection storage on the closed shelf keeping documents in folders and boxes prepare a tool to help search for exhibitions, digitization and create a special collection database.

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