As coleções bibliográficas especiais: reimaginar e recriar

Abstract

This text addresses special bibliographic collections and their dialogue with society in times of a pandemic. For this, a history of books and texts is presented, the development of collections in libraries, the formation of special collections in brazilian libraries for the preservation of the institution's bibliographic heritage, the role of archives, libraries and museums as guardians of written culture, as well as conservation, organization, cataloguing, digitization, storage and dissemination policies for graphic documents. Finally, it brings reflection on these physical collections in the face of the pandemic times, citing the movement made by museums to rethink the concept of museum and calling for the reimagining and recreation of bibliographic collections.