Redes de bibliotecas universitárias: um estudo de caso na Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia.

Abstract

Libraries increasingly seek new ways of making their collections available and invigorating services and products, seeking to work cooperatively with other information units. The present work aims to show the process of formation of the Libraries Network of the Federal Rural University of Amazonia, aiming to improve the processes of management and access to information. A case study was carried out at the institution, through the description of the librarian meetings. The data collection was done through the documentary record of the materials generated in these meetings. It is considered important points for the theoretical foundation, network concepts, library cooperatives, success and failure factors, and some examples of partnerships, systems and networks of libraries in Brazil. It is understood with this study that the university libraries, need to work in an integrated way as is the case of the institution in question, object of this study. Regarding the results, it was also possible to observe that the formation of networks allowed the sharing of information on a larger scale, thus reaching the internal and external community, and the case study demonstrated the importance of participatory work, and decision making is equally democratic.