Abstract: The theme of this research is the analysis of the scientific memory of the public library in the Brazilian National Institute of Technology (INT/Brazil), under the perspective of control devices and information policy regime. As main research issue, it is presumed that the storage and preservation of physical and digital documents supported by the library are links for the formation and consolidation of memories, such as individual, collective, social and scientific. A technical library would be responsible in part for the development and maintenance of scientific memory, and furthermore the development of knowledge. Its importance is justified by the human need to counteract scientific and technological events, to accumulate traces of facts and feelings experienced by representations, materialized by artifacts and relics, such as written documents and supporting materials as films, photographs and sound recordings. The library is responsible for scientific communication and also has a physical infrastructure and provides supporting facilities, such as internet accessibility, and the availability of web platforms and applications to search for digital documents. Society holds informational capital and scientific memory, whereas it controls or limits access to the technical and scientific collection of libraries through control devices. Therefore, as a research objective, this thesis studies the maintenance of informational power through technological artifacts as it is presumed that scientific memory is not free from contamination by these control devices and technical objects. Another objective of the study is the analysis of the social control exercised by the public administration that reaches the publication of the act of storage and retrieval of public information, in which the information policy regime and the law on access to information (LAI) n.12,527/2011 commit the availability, authenticity, integrity and firstness of public information. This presenting contribution belongs to a PhD research in the middle stage of development.
