MEMORY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS DURING THE BRAZILIAN DICTATORSHIP
Keywords:
institutional memory, library associations, civil-military dictatorshipAbstract
This work addresses institutional memory within Brazilian library associations, understanding it as a space of symbolic dispute, narrative production, and historical silences. The study takes as its reference point the context of the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship (1964–1985), a period marked by political transformations, university expansion, and the reorganization of professional entities. The objective is to survey the librarians' associations founded during this period, identifying their founders and contextualizing the political and social events in the states where these entities were created. Methodologically, it is characterized as qualitative, exploratory, bibliographic, and documentary research, using minutes, official gazettes, reports, institutional bulletins, periodicals, and historical documents produced by Brazilian library associations. The results allowed for the identification of librarians' associations founded during the regime, as well as the total or partial identification of the founding subjects. Analysis of the state contexts indicates that the creation of these associations was related to the expansion of higher education, the strengthening of libraries, and the political and administrative transformations promoted by the regime, contributing to the institutional consolidation of Brazilian librarianship.