MANUAL PARA ELABORAÇÃO E NORMALIZAÇÃO DE DISSERTAÇÕES E TESES

109 ANEXO 6 - ABSTRACT BAPTISTA, Antonio Carlos Nunes. Biblioteca e memória: preservação no limiar do ano 2000: subsídios à partir da análise conceitual de bibliotecas nacionais. Rio de Janeiro, 1996. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciência da Informação)--Escola de Comunicação, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 1996 The study of the National library, with its double role as a memory institution, by means of the legal deposit. That is, to maintain and preserve the intelectual production of the nation and, of that being an institution where you would have access to information, having as a basis, memory, culture and preservation. From this established point of a National Library, that varies according to social, political, economic and cultural structure of each country, we outline the history of the National Library in Brazil, since its origin to the present days. Analysis of the growth and the use of the collection, also of the categories of the users, are the basis to understand the proportion of the double role that the institution performs and the consequences to the preservation of a book as a witness of memory. This is complete by some questioning around the educational problems, political and cultural, beside being responsable for the situation of the many Brazilian Libraries. Keywords: Labray. Memory. Biblioteca Nacional (Brazil).