EVALUATION OF THE COLLECTIONS OF PERIODICALS RECEIVED REGULARLY BY WAY OF DONATION AND EXCHANGE IN A LIBRARY SPECIALISED IN TROPICAL MEDICINE

Abstract

Taking into account the importance of publicising the exchanges and donations received by the library of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in São Paulo, the universe of the research was defined as the evaluation of the collections of national and international periodicals, regularly received and incorporated into the library collection. We verified, by means of these collections of periodicals that the main library collection represents well the community’s information needs despite its status as a Library specialised in tropical medicine. Amongst the periodicals received, we identified the number of donations and exchanges, the dominant themes, the precedence, the degree of impact and the indexations. We also sought to know the opinion of the users with regard to their interest in the titles received.