The National Preservation Office was established by the British Library Board in 1984; in 2009 it was renamed the British Library Preservation Advisory Centre. The Centre's function is to raise public awareness of preservation issues in libraries and to serve as a nexus for developing and promoting improved preservation management of library and archive materials in the UK and Ireland.
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