Digital library development in Brazil

Abstract

The Internet came to Brazil early, and was quickly recognized as an exciting new means of communication, highly appropriate for a technologically advanced and recently democratized society. This paper identifies and characterizes the principal Brazilian digital library initiatives in science and research; education; literature and the humanities and history and politics. Government financing was critical for the implementation of Brazilian digital libraries. Institutions with a strong background in advanced technology had an advantage when entering the digital library field. Cooperative projects have also had significant impact.

Citation

McCarthy, C. and Bastos da Cunha, M. (2003), "Digital library development in Brazil", OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, Vol. 19 No. 3, pp. 114-119. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650750310490324