Dr. Eduardo da Silva Alentejo
2023
In a growing universe of information alternatives, emerging technologies on the Web have been adapted and applied in the ways in which man controls what he produces. That is, what organizes, preserves and disseminates to society through successive generations of bibliographic systems. Throughout the history of knowledge, librarians have developed catalogs for the organization of bibliographic stocks under their custody, giving them the notion of relevance and their social function, the notion of efficiency for accessing information. Along the way, they continue to be pioneers in terms of applying technologies to their tasks, above all those aimed at organizing collections in contexts of professional cooperation, rationalization of resources and information control, manifest in consecrated bibliographic products, from printed catalogs and bibliographies to those who are currently published online. In this light, between the catalog and the bibliography, there is the bibliographic work that precedes them and intends them for social use. The library was [and continues to be] the first known instance of bibliographic control and its first instruments were its catalogues; and in the cradle of modernity, the bibliography as a reference instrument to indicate to the user what was published and where. If for centuries, catalogs and bibliographies were treated as parallel processes of bibliographic work, these two functions were brought together with the development of Universal Bibliographic Control, a concept adopted internationally in the mid-twentieth century based on international acceptance of cataloging standardization, current sharing of bibliographic records and possibilities of physical access to the disclosed items. Since the popularization of the Internet, these products have undergone processes of digital transformation that in the 21st century, in contexts of technological leaps, migrate from centralization, typical of previous centuries, to the distribution an
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