Despite of the recognition in recent years that information is essential component in the development of Brazilian society,there are processes within the area of Information Science in Brazil, specifically of Librarianship that have not yet formed a solid body of theory about the importance of control and records management of the records in university libraries. The point of view of anticipating the need informational in order to facilitate the process of transferring information subsidize the training of knowledge. The collection development, an activity that gives powers to the librarian to turn a collection relevant to the users in this process of knowledge construction is, however, a process that is not effectively part of the routine of Brazilian libraries. Not only by operational difficulties existing in relation to the size of collections to be known, but above all, by the lack of a set of theoretical content in this subject, which enables librarians to win the challenges to an effective management of a collection. This paper highlights these shortcomings,visible in practices Brazilian librarians having a cultural component whose origins pass through the national policy choices of adoption to the external models, instead of creating a own model. Therefore, it is visible today, the need to a specialization throughconverging application of methodologies for the management and treatment of the collection, as a scientific object.object.
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