Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação
Abstract
It presents the origins and foundations of the process of collection development in Brazil based on authors of the XIX Century and in the Course of Librarianship of the National Library (Brazil) among 1915 to 1949. It adopts the documental research method to identify authors of the XIX Century in the Rare Collection at UNIRIO, that supported the course in the past, and to carry out a survey about the programs of disciplines, the complemental documents and annual reports of the National Library in order to do correspondences between theory and practice. It contributes to a revision of the theory of the collection development that leans on strongly in authors of English language
