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1.2. Main Research Issue
As main research issue, it is presumed that the storage and preservation of physical
and digital documents under the responsibility of a library are links for formation and
consolidation of memories, such as collective, social and scientific. It concerns about the
survival and accessibility of memory collections and memory supports, which is related to
science and technology documents in the digital age. Pimenta (2013, p.148-149) argues:
"Indeed, the increasing means of producing and propagating information within the digital
age will affect ways of understanding and representing the past; influencing not only the
knowledge produced, but the memory in constant construction. Thus, it is necessary to reflect on
singularities regarding the issue of information as object of study and of dispute in its social and
political manifestations. Moreover, it is - as well as memory, which we will discuss later - the
indefectible element to the construction of knowledge and capacities; because it is from the
control of preservation, circulation and even of interdiction and destruction of the information
that we construct the knowledge through the human history; just as we institute memories or erase
them from the collective plane".
Hence, memory would be a primordial element in the construction of knowledge and
capacities, and its act not only isolates events and empties them of duration, but
schematizes them "as a rational outline, a development plan for the narrative of our past"
(Candau, 2011, p.88). Dodebei & Orrico (2012, p.11-12) use a conceptual discursive model
(metaphors) to present that "social memory is culture", since it allows authors and
theoretical currents to unite and intertwine:
"(...) Although syntagmatic relations can only be inferred from the representation of the
presented discursive-conceptual model, we perceive that the category 'Culture-context and
scenario' would allow us to relate, for example, the concepts of 'institution' to 'documents' or
'monuments'. As we said earlier, the metaphor 'memory is culture' becomes a circumstantial
synthesis operator to aid in the formulation of informational search strategies in databases.
As we continue with the observation of our object, we intend to present in the future the
network of authors and their socio-historical contexts for the production of their texts and thus
expand the network of meanings that social memory establishes between the authors and the
theoretical currents affiliated".
2. Memory studies and library
Scientific memory is studied as result of storage, preservation, recovery and
destruction of information found in collections and memory supports of a memory place, a
scientific and technological library. Huyssen (2000) comments on memory culture as social
obsession in storing space-time traces of lived events, and therefore places of memory -
memorials, monuments, museums and libraries - emerge as materialized past:
"One of the permanent lamentations of modernity is the loss of a better past, of memory
living in a securely circumscribed place, with a sense of stable boundaries, and of a culture built
locally with its regular flow of time and a nucleus of relationships. (...) memory culture may well
be, at least partly, its contemporary incarnation. The issue, however, is not the loss of some golden
age of stability and permanence. It is more about the attempt, as we face the actual process of
space-time compression, ensuring some continuity within time, to provide some extension of the
lived space within which we can breathe and move (p.30)
(...) Our misfortunate seems to flow an informational and perceptual overload combined
with cultural acceleration, which neither our psyche nor senses are well equipped to deal with.
The faster we are pushed into the global future that does not inspire us confidence, the strongerour desire to go slower and more we turn to memory for comfort (p.32).
Some have accepted the idea of archiving, as a counterbalance to the ever-increasing pace
of change, a place of spatial and temporal preservation (...) (p.33)".
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Lee, Patricia Pui Ye & Pimenta, Ricardo Medeiros. The Scientific Memory of the Brazilian National Institute of Technology (Int/Brazil) Public Library Under the Perspectives of Control Devices and Information Policy Regime, paper, November 10, 2018; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1393784/m1/2/?q=aRCHIVES: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.