Mediatecas da Caixa Geral de Depósitos : estudo de caso de São Tomé e Príncipe, 2004-2016

O presente estudo avalia o papel das Mediatecas CGD da ilha de São Tomé e da ilha do Príncipe, enquanto polos de desenvolvimento cultural nas duas ilhas, procurando percecionar a relação da mediateca com o indivíduo e com a comunidade, seja numa vertente pedagógica, seja numa vertente lúdica. Para a sua realização foi utilizado o método de "estudo de caso", através da análise dos dados obtidos com recurso à utilização de diversos instrumentos, como sejam questionários aplicados aos utilizadores e aos responsáveis de ambas as mediatecas, e uma entrevista realizada ao coordenador-geral da Rede de Mediatecas CGD. Os instrumentos foram construídos de modo a procurar responder às questões nas quais assenta o estudo: Qual a Caraterização demográfica dos utilizadores? Como tomaram conhecimento da existência da mediateca? Para que fins utilizam os serviços da mediateca? Qual a periodicidade dessa utilização? Dos recursos disponíveis quais são mais utilizados? Como os utilizadores percecionam a qualidade do acervo, dos suportes informáticos, dos serviços e dos recursos humanos? Qual a importância que os utilizadores consideram existir no seu desenvolvimento pessoal em termos académicos e/ou profissionais? Como consideram as condições físicas e ambientais disponibilizados? Quais as sugestões que apresentam? No campo da pesquisa documental, efetuou-se a consulta de: informação resultante de atos de gestão e de tomadas de decisão; documentação referente a troca de correspondência entre as várias instituições intervenientes nos processos; diversa legislação nacional e são-tomense; diretrizes internacionais na área das mediatecas; documentação afeta à construção dos espaços e da implementação das diversas infraestruturas. Como conclusão, os utilizadores das mediatecas de São Tomé e Príncipe atribuem significativa importância ao papel da mediateca no seu desenvolvimento e formação cultural, seja em termos académicos (a vertente mais significativa) seja em termos profissionais e culturais.This study evaluates the role CGD multimedia libraries in São Tomé and Príncipe Island while cultural development poles the two islands, aiming to find the relationship between the multimedia library, individuals, and the community, either in an educational point view or in a more playful point view. “Case study” method was used and the data obtained through various instruments, such as questionnaires to multimedia library’s users and to multimedia library’s supervisors, and also an interview with the general-coordinator CGD media library network was analyzed. The used instruments were developed in such a way that could allow some answers to the mains questions on which the present study is based: What is the demographic characterization multimedia library users? How multimedia library users do took notice about its existence? What are user’s main purposes for using the multimedia library services? What is the frequency of such use? Which are most used all the available multimedia resources? How do users perceive the quality the multimedia library collection, computer support, services and human resources? How important users consider the multimedia library to their personal development in an academic and / or professional point view? How do users rate physical and environmental existing conditions? What suggestions do they have? The documentary research was based on acts management and decision making, exchanged documentation between the various institutions involved in the processes, different national and Sao Tome legislation, international guidelines in the area multimedia libraries, related documentation to the spaces construction and to the various infrastructure implementation. Study results reveal that users multimedia libraries Sao Tome and Principe give significant importance to the role the multimedia library in its personal development and cultural training, whether in academics (the most significant aspect) whether in professional and cultural terms

Os profissionais de informação nos arquivos municipais em Portugal: identificação e caraterização

Prefácio: Rodrigo FurtadoEsta publicação é financiada por Fundos Nacionais através da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., no âmbito do projecto UIDB/00019/2020info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost

Mediatecas: São Tomé e Príncipe

Este é um estudo que valoriza a dimensão qualitativa, que incide sobre a avaliação das duas mediatecas de São Tomé e Príncipe, do seu papel e das relações que quotidianamente estabelecem com as comunidades, a que não são alheios os respetivos contextos. Um estudo que parte das bibliotecas para a compreensão da emergência das mediatecas e, neste âmbito, da Rede de Mediatecas da Lusofonia, que contextualiza as Mediatecas de São Tomé e Príncipe, cruzando as perspectivas da coordenação-geral (em Lisboa), dos coordenadores locais das Mediatecas e, como não poderia deixar de ser, dos seus utilizadores, aqueles que melhor justificam a sua existência. Um estudo, por último, de elevada qualidade, bem estruturado e fundamentado, que também levanta as dificuldades de quem vive o seu quotidiano, porém demonstrativo de que as Mediatecas da Lusofonia continuam a fazer sentido em São Tomé e Príncipe.FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Uma análise crítica da literatura sobre a oferta e a circulação de moeda metálica no Brasil nos séculos XVI e XVII

Este artigo examina os principais fatores determinantes da oferta e da circulação de moeda metálica no Brasil nos séculos XVI e XVII. O objetivo é contribuir para o debate, até hoje pouco explorado, sobre a escassez de moeda no Brasil colonial. O trabalho é dividido em seis seções, além da introdução e considerações finais. A primeira apresenta as principais características do sistema bimetálico então vigente em Portugal e de sua política de desvalorização da unidade de conta. A análise da oferta de moeda no Brasil é desenvolvida nas quatro seções seguintes, destacando o início do processo de monetização, os fluxos de entrada e saída de metais, os impactos da política de cunhagem metropolitana e os episódios de remarcação e cunhagem de moeda no Brasil. Os determinantes do entesouramento são discutidos a seguir. Uma última seção resume os argumentos apresentados ao longo do trabalho.This paper examines the main factors that determined the supply and circulation of metallic coins in Brazil in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The objective is to contribute to the debate, often neglected, on the scarcity of money in colonial Brazil. The paper is divided into six parts, on top of the introduction and the concluding remarks. The first presents the main features of the then prevalent Portuguese monetary system, as well as its policy of debasement. The next four parts deal with the supply of metallic currency in Brazil analysing respectively the early stages of the process of monetization, the inflows and outflows of precious metals, the impacts of the policy of coinage adopted by the Portuguese Crown, and some episodes of marking and minting of coins in Brazil. This is followed by an analysis of hoarding. It concludes with a summary of the main arguments developed along the paper