Centros de documentação e memória empresarial

Abstract

This work demonstrates the basics of organization is accomplished documentary documentation centers and private memory, located in Sao Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul, in addition to presenting the history, concepts, objectives, activities, products generated, the processing steps technical achievements for mixed infrastructure of the centers, the conservation status of documents, access conditions and for the dissemination of achievements, characterized as a multicase study. For the development of the research were carried out visits to places of memory and documentation of three business groups of the large Brazilian industrial sector, where through observations could reveal the reality of historical collections business, the state of conservation of documents and conditions access, that is, they are open to external public or not. We conclude that the centers of documentation and documentation of memory contains three specific areas such as archives, libraries and museums, thus adding to their collections of historical documents, but also have the function of permanent archive of the companies. For this reason the organization of document collections must follow the scientific rules of archival, library and museum for these centers fulfill its role as agent for the dissemination of information. It was noted also that the formation of these collections is diverse consisting of documents and supports various formats, thus requiring specific technical treatment and special care to preserve these collections. Another issue to be highlighted in the research is on the dissemination of information through the tools of information, a practice carried out by the three centers studied showing that the centers are using new information technologies to move closer to their audiences. The work is divided into four parts, the first sentence, which has a brief content with the subject studied, the problem, objectives and rationale of the research. In the second part is presented to the reference used, the third part deals with the methodology adopted for the development of research and the fourth section presents the final considerations of the research, which shows what was found with the study.