Coleção de livros raros da biblioteca pública Juarez da Gama Batista: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The research is a case study of the Juarez da Gama Batista Public Library, has a descriptive and used bibliographic sources. In consensus with the general objective of identifying the importance of rare books by listing criteria that define a rare work, has been specific objectives defining what is a rare work and how to identify whether the acquis has rare works, as well as methods of preserving rare collections. Make a brief history of the evolution of writing, from the origin with the Hominids until as we know it currently. Cites the bibliological aspects that should be analyzed in the cataloging of books and demonstrates the use of library automation software that assists in the cataloging process of rare books. A random sample of 30 (thirty) books in the rare collection of BPJGB in a universe of approximately 1200 rare books, where all the books have characteristic of rare book, as exemplified the author Pinheiro(1989). The collection has a predominance of subjects, such as Law, Literature and Other which encompass, History, Religion and Biography. It is worth noting the scarcity of scientific material that would assist in the production of this course completion work, mainly on the thematic of rare works, where there are few publications.