Almanaque do Gipão : características, produção e circulação de informação acerca do Club Sportivo Sergipe

Abstract

Given the importance of studying almanacs, which are constituted as documentary sources, cultural and historical objects, and sources of information, and also being of paramount importance to every area of knowledge, exhaustive effort is made to understand the objects they encompass. Research is conducted on the “Gipão Almanac”, its characteristics, production, and dissemination of information about Club Sportivo Sergipe, in order to analyze the publication as a cultural object of information under the aegis of Librarianship. To do so, it is necessary to provide a brief historical contextualization of almanacs, present the almanac as a cultural object, and finally describe and examine the publication “Gipão Almanac” highlighting its intrinsic characteristics, its mode of production, and dissemination of information. For this purpose, a qualitative approach was chosen through a case study as methodology. It is evident that the importance of almanacs throughout the evolution of intellectual and cultural production of humanity. However, the “Gipão Almanac” presents strong technical and subjective similarities with the cultural object almanac. However, other characteristics set it apart from such an object, which leads to the realization that the possibility of affirming that the “Gipão Almanac” is a genuine almanac is fatally affected by the disparities that the publication presents in relation to the inherent characteristics of the cultural object almanac.