Diálogos sobre preservação documental e ciência da informação.

Abstract

To preserve documents is an action already known and that interest to professionals that deal with the organization, processing and dissemination of information in the context of Information Units (Archives, Libraries, Documentation Centres and Museums). In this sense, the present study aims to clarify what constitutes to preserve documents from the thematic analysis of documentary preservation by the Archivist perspective. The research, from the point of view of the objectives, is characterized as being a Descriptive type. The research techniques used were the Bibliographical and Documental. As sources of information were adopted the CAPES databases, SciELO, also books, papers, magazines, laws, resolutions, national and international standards. The study has a qualitative approach and, by the data processing, the Content Analysis technique is used. As results are presented dialogues related to the idea of documentary preservation systematically understood as an area of knowledge that has the potential for scientific and epistemological growth. Based on Archivist it follows that the documentary preservation understood as a policy is an indispensable instrument for the maintenance of institutional collections and information sources present in the Information Units. Finally, it contextualizes that, from the perspective of Information Science, documentary preservation acts as a major factor preponderant to social memory maintenance and finds in Information Science scientific support for its development.