The Brazilian scientific production on bibliographic studies: a diachronic analysis

Abstract

It describes the theoretical conceptions and concrete activities related to the field of Bibliography in Brazil, considering its theoretical and applied development, from scientific production in journal articles indexed in Brapci. The research aims at identifying the production about the subject of bibliography by searching the analysis of scientific literature indexed in Brapci; outlining the profile of this production, favoring the categories of researchers, themes and theoretical influences from the Information Science field and contextualizing the conceptions and activities in the scenario in which it was highlighted. The research diachronically analyzes the production on the subject, to highlight the evolution of the concept of bibliography in scientific production in Brazil, highlighting the relevant concepts and activities. It is a study of diachronic and descriptive character, which turns to the content of the articles, based on categories of analysis and information raised in the considered scientific production, corresponding to the period between 1972 and 2017. It also observes that in the literature produced in Brazil on the subject of bibliography, the emphasis is on the techno-methodological dimension, implemented in Librarian Science and documentary, explaining and organizing work and study tools, following the socio-political dimension related to the interventions in various forms in the production of instruments to support knowledge and its achievements in favor of the interests covered by social policies and, less expressively, in the whole of production, presents the epistemological theoretical dimension, related to the foundations and rational and historical reconstruction of the art of bibliography and bibliographic science.