Gestão de obras raras e especiais: o caso do acervo raro da Biblioteca Comunitária Maria das Neves Prado (Biblioteca Comunitária do Paiaiá)

Abstract

Master's dissertation, presented to the Federal University of Sergipe, as part of the requirements of the Postgraduate Program in Information Science. Its main objective was the implementation of Information and Knowledge Management (ICM), as well as the Organization of Information and Knowledge (OIC) of rare and special works from the collection of the Community Library “Maria Das Neves Prado”, known nationally as the Paiaiá Community Library (BCMNP), located in the interior of Bahia. The research dimensioned was of an applied nature, in the participatory research modality. The approach is a mixed study, with exploratory and descriptive objectives. The general objective was to deliver the "Demonstrative of rare and special works of the Paiaiá Community Library" as an editorial product, derived from the intervention and research in the BCMNP information unit, which functioned as an empirical field of ICM practices. This production, although intended for the BCMNP, was a publication of a universal nature, based on the selection of rare works with well-defined criteria for identification and descriptive representation. Furthermore, by historicizing the formation of the collection, understood as a collecting and bibliophilic practice, it placed this unit of information in the uniqueness of its means and end activities. The proposed intervention criteria were based on scientific principles, bibliographic and documentary methods, curation techniques and the applicability of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Its specific objectives were: To identify rare and special works in the BCMNP collection, through previously established international criteria for identifying bibliographic rarity, adapted to the characteristics of the history of books in Brazil; To use special criteria for the bibliographic description of rare works, disseminated in the specialized literature of Library Science and Documentation, at an international level; To ensure, through intervention, the implementation and feasibility of an Institutional Policy for the Management of Rare and Special Collections of the Associação Biblioteca Comunitária Mª das Neves Prado (ABCNNP), which can serve as a model for other Brazilian information units, disseminating it through the editorial product. The definition of the contents of the proposed product was obtained through the diagnosis of the BCMNP collection, using the SWOT Matrix. As final considerations, the work verifies the fulfillment of the general objective and the specific objectives, recommending that the principles researched be applied in the curation of the originals, in the Organization of Knowledge and Information (OCI), and in the Management of Information and Knowledge (GIC), with an emphasis on the dissemination of information and knowledge of rare works and special collections, with the preservation of their materiality and access to the contents, with the applicability of the potentialities of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), associated with the use of free software (open-source).