Donations, guidelines and dilemas in university libraries

study carried out at the Marcelino Monteiro da Costa Library, Center for High Amazon Studies/UFPA

Abstract

Donation acquisition has its advantages and disadvantages and university libraries have particularities and guidelines for this procedure. The main objective of this work will be to identify how donations are accepted at the Marcelino Monteiro da Costa Library, of the Center for High Amazon Studies, at the Federal University of Pará. The methodology used is exploratory made through bibliographic research, with authors such as Figueiredo (1998), Miranda (2007), Vergueiro (1989; 2010) and Weitzel (2013), among others. In addition, documentary research was carried out to study the Library's Collections Policy and a structured interview with the responsible librarian was necessary to better understand the criteria used, how is the evaluation of the materials received, the profile of the donors, difficulties. We can conclude that the donations received by the NAEA Library are mostly made by the program's teachers and are donations in large batches. The guidelines are based on the Collections Policy developed by the Central Library / UFPA, eventually deviations occur when following such guidelines, but do not disqualify the evaluation of the donated material.