Development of universities and academic libraries in the middle age to modernity

• Autor(a) principal: Diógenes, Fabiene Castelo Branco
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Cunha, Murilo Bastos da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8646007
• topic: Biblioteca universitária. Idade Média. Modernidade.; Biblioteca universitária; Academic library. Middle Age. Modern Age.; University library.

The essay analyzes the origin of universities, their struggles for autonomy, administrative organization and curricular structure and an account of the existence of libraries linked to universities, from the Middle Age to Modernity. In the nineteenth century, education is assumed by the State and provides a legal cover to universities scientific and pedagogical freedom. The university library had its development over the centuries, trying to keep up with changes. However, it is during this century that some service and were emerging the understanding of the relationship between the university library and the university. However, it was after the Second World War, that teaching begins his walk to the mass school, and the university library becomes an important part of the university. There is a growing emphasis on access for collections, state funding for collections development and structuring of their libraries, cooperation and automation activities. These changes begin to transform the way products and services of academic libraries. From 1970, new technologies penetrate in these areas and universities and their libraries affected due to such technologies. Reform proposals emerge generating new challenges for these two centennial institutions.