The Brazil’s National Bibliography: history, reflections and inflections

• Autor(a) principal: Juvêncio, Carlos Henrique
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Rodrigues, Georgete Medleg
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: InCID
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/incid/article/view/118769
• topic: Bibliografia Nacional; Biblioteca Nacional; Controle Bibliográfico; História; Memória; Bibliographic Control; History; Memory; National Bibliography; National Library

The National Bibliography has an important role as a research tool and memory of the intellectual production of society. This work seeks to retrace the historical trajectory of such bibliographic control instrument in Brazil from the nineteenth century to the present day taking as north to its importance as a national inventory of intellectual memory. Uses as a source of research papers and publications on the subject of different times and in different contexts, especially publications highlighted by Edson Nery da Fonseca in its various research on the subject. Discusses the institutionalization of Bibliography as a discipline in the country and their contribution to the construction of the national bibliography. It also aims to elucidate the roles played by different institutions throughout history as responsible for the construction of the instrument. It concludes that the Brazilian Bibliography was never fully built and has always been perennial front of the need for constant updating, and not it is a sound policy of construction of national memory.