Biblioteca universitária pública e o uso da tecnologia da informação nos seus serviços

Abstract

Libraries have passed through some phases where lots of services have been automated, and from these experiences the products have been improved according to the necessities of each sector and with those transformations more specialized products appeared for the libraries. Every change implies new ways, new approaches, new solutions, thus the technological progress in the university had great significance and the library, integrating part of the institution that deals straight with information couldn’t be away from that movement. With the use of those technologies there are chances of new forms of sociability. Nowadays in the information age, it is almost impossible not to have relations mediated by computing. The Central Library of the University of Maringá (UEM) has the mission of supporting the centers and other agencies in their activities of teaching, research and extension.