A biblioteca do Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (Ibict) e a disseminação das atividades em ciência e tecnologia no Brasil

Abstract

Shows the history and the activities carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Information Library for Science and Technology (IBICT), since its inception in 1954 as the Brazilian Institute of Bibliography and Documentation (IBBD). IBICT stands out as the institution that was created to coordinate activities intrinsic to scientific and technological information, and thus, the Library plays an important role in fulfilling its mission. Dominated the national scene recognition of the valuable collection of information science and librarianship. Secondarily, has various historical documents on Science and Technology Policy arising from the library of the National Scientific and Technological Development Council (CNPq), the body which was bound by the year 2000. Currently stands for product supply and electronic services, such as the Portal of Open Book in Science, Technology and Innovation. It should be noted that the routine library is supported by free software Koha whose interoperability features, customization and ease of use and information retrieval delivers the library for complete integration with the Library Network of the Research Units of the Ministry of Science, Technology, innovations and Communications.