A fotografia como fonte de informação no resgate da memória institucional: o passado no presente.

Abstract

A research report elaborated with the main objective of analyzing the extent to which the photographic supports represent source of information and expression of institutional memory. The investigative process was based on the assumption of non-existence (AACR2) of specific description items to catalog photographic collections. The choice of the theoretical reference used to analyze the data was guided by the descriptive and interpretative method of authors who published on the precepts of the approaches: technicalist and cognitive partner of Librarianship. Four steps were taken in the methodological procedures: 1) survey of the sources of information in the journals and institutional repositories of the area on the subject, 2) identify and describe the theoretical assumptions of the approaches cited and the researchers who study the historiography of photography as a source of information, 3) Present a case study (photography) focused on the precepts of the socio-cognitive-institutional memory approach. As a result, the research revealed that there are few studies published in the field of Information Science highlighting the importance of photographic media as a source of information for the rescue of institutional memory, and which description items (notes) can be incorporated into the fields of Cataloging AACR2, such as information on photographic genre and historical data of photographic representation.