Cooperation for Brazilian Libraries Through a National Program for Bibliographic Information
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The author begins by briefly assessing the current book situation in Brazil, whose thriving publishing industry exports many volumes and whose government provides inadequate financial support and poor distribution channels. The picture is rather bleak. But Barroso realizes that Brazil’s problem is not a question of books so much as a question of information. For her, the fundamental issue centers around the fact that Brazil, unlike Venezuela and Mexico, has no national plan for developing library and information services.
Barroso goes on to propose that Brazil formulate such a plan and establish a national library network, linked by computers, to improve basic collections, enhance access to specialized materials through interlibrary loan, and expand the number library users—even in remote areas—through the use of book boxes and bookmobiles. Although a National Library Council would serve as a forum for policy discussions and would possess ultimate authority, Barroso outlines a key role for the National Library as the overall coordinating heart of the network, responsible for maintaining the national union catalog. Lower levels of organization would involve state libraries to carry out policy decisions and provide technical assistance, and municipal libraries to receive and distribute information.
Barroso sees computer and telecommunications technology as an essential part of the national library network. This technology will permit better organized, more economical library services, such as the maintenance of a national union catalog, planned acquisitions, and cooperative cataloging. Eager to embark on this new bibliographic venture, Barroso has already prepared an agenda that includes the creation of new libraries and improvement of existing ones; staff training and development; standardization of library procedures; and developing collections to serve the information needs of all Brazilians.
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Cooperación de las bibliotecas brasileñas a través de un plan nacional de información bibliográfica
La autora inicia con una pequeña evaluación de la situación actual del libro en Brasil, cuya industria editorial próspera exporta muchos volúmenes y cuyo gobierno le proporciona apoyo financiero inadecuado y pobres canales de distribución. El cuadro es algo sombrio. Pero Maria Alice Barroso se da cuenta que en Brasil el problema no es la cuestión de los libros tanto como en el hecho de que Brasil, a diferencia de Venezuela y México, no tiene plan nacional para el desarrollo de bibliotecas y servicios de información.
La sutora va mas allá proponiendo que Brasil formule tal plan y que establezca una red nacional de bibliotecas, ligada por computadoras, para mejorar las colecciones básicas, mejorar los servicios de materiales especializados a través de préstamo interbibliotecario y expandir el número de usuarios de bibliotecas—aún en las áreas más remotas—a través del uso de cajas de libros y bibliotecas móviles. Aunque un consejo nacional bibliotecario puede servir como un foro para la discusión de políticas y que posee autoridad última, Barroso delínia una papel clave para la Biblioteca Nacional como el corazón coordinador de la red, responsable por el mantenimiento del catálogo colectivo nacional. Niveles más bajos de organización involucrarían a las bibliotecas estatales para que lleven a cabo una política de toma de decisiones y para proporcionar asistencia técnica y, al nivel local, las bibliotecas municipales para recibir y distribuir la información. Maria Alice Barroso considera las computadoras y la tecnología de telecomunicación como una parte esencial de la red nacional de bibliotecas. Esta tecnología permitirá mejor organización, y tener servicios bibliotecarios mas económicos, tales como el mantenimiento de un catálogo colectivo nacional, adquisiciones planeadas y catalogación cooperativa. Deseosa de embarcarse en esta nueva ventura bibliográfica, Barroso ha preparado una agenda que incluye la creación de nuevas bibliotecas y la mejora de las existentes; la capacitación y el desarrollo del personal; la normalizatión de los procedimientos bibliotecarios y la creación de fondos bibliográficos para satisfacer las necesidades de información de todos los brasileños.
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