The purposes of this descriptive study are to transmit a philosophy of preserving the Nursing memory, to present the criteria observed in the organization and preservation of documentary collection and last but not least to share the experience of organizing a Documentary Center. Besides presenting the techniques to be used while dealing with documentary collection, attention is also drawn to environmental issues as well as the user's behavior in the aforementioned Center, whose importance as a source of information and research to several areas of human knowledge is emphasized.
documentary center; documentary collection; collection's preservation