Environmental Standards to Save Documents in the Sultanate of Oman: A Comparative Study

This paper examines the environmental standards adopted by the Sultanate of Oman in preserving documents and manuscripts, to determine the extent to which these standards coincide with international standards in the storage of documents. To fulfill this aim, the standards adopted in the storage of documents and manuscripts in Oman were monitored and compared with international standards to identify the extent to which they are compatible with each other. The aim was also to determine which standards are lacking in the storage of documents. The findings show that there is a clear absence of many of the standards particular to the storage environment, as well as many of the standards particular to the document preservation environment outside the scope of international standards.