Introduction to the digital preservation in the Fiocruz Library Network: an exploratory study on the construction of institutional actions

Abstract

Introduction: This study aims to present technical and theoretical contributions to the field of preservation in library science, especially with regard to scientific information stored in digital media.
Objective: To understand the Librarian action in the preservation of contemporary digital technical and scientific memory under Library Science point of view, from analysis of Fiocruz's Library Network.
Methodology: A theoretical analysis: through literature review of philosophical reason to "preserve" and "theoretical" role of preservation in the context of the Library. An empirical analysis: through the use of questionnaires in interviews with active librarians Fiocruz’s Library Network, as well as secondary survey from questionnaires to participants librarians in specific forum in preservation in the institution.
Results: Within the context of preservation’s practices in the Fiocruz have allowed us to get some results coming from theoretical and empirical reflection on the librarian's action for the benefit of digital preservation under the librarianship point of view in the context of Fiocruz's Library Network.
Conclusions: The preservation of digital technical and scientific memory, unlike analog technical and scientific memory, characterized by being more complex when dealing with the notion of durability and the notion of reliability, and demand a constant interdisciplinary reassessment. It is now understood that this issue can be investigated for various academic disciplines, among them is the Library Science