Informação e memória, biblioteca e memória o caso EMATER/MG

Abstract

The treatment and preparation of a collection for a new destination after the closure of a library is a subject under explored in research and an activity for which there are no prepared instruments. This was the challenge of an action at the Nilza TavaresDias library of the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Company of the State of Minas Gerais (EMATER-MG), in Brazil, deactivated in 2018. Since 2020, the inventory work for the proper disposal of the collection was started. For this purpose, it was necessary to develop the work methodology, as its base for recording and physical restructuring of the library for the activities’development. During the process, a large quantity/quality of EMATER publications produced since its creation was found, thus arising the need for a more depth study of these materials as an information, documentary and institutional memory source.