Challenges of scientific communication: the scientific memory of the Brazilian National Institute of Technology (INT/Brazil) public library under the perspectives of control devices and information policy regime

This is the study of the scientific memory of the INT public library, under the perspective of control devices and information policy regime. As main issue, it is presumed that the storage and preservation of physical and digital documents are links for formation and consolidation of memories. Technical library would be partly responsible for the development of scientific memory, and furthermore, the development of knowledge. Its importance is justified by the human need to counteract scientific and technological events, materialized by artifacts and relics. This library is also responsible for the scientific communication. Society holds informational capital and scientific memory, whereas it controls or limits access to the collection of libraries through control devices. Therefore, it is studied the maintenance of informational power through technological artifacts. Another objective is the analysis of the social control exercised by the public administration (information policy regime and the law on access to information).