A Biblioteca Digital : da imaginação em exercício ao exercício da imaginação

Abstract

The contemporary technological context, in proposing new forms of communication, is provoking new interpretations and approaches to the reality. In the attempt to fulfil the different gaps of information, we feel compelled to the evolution or eventual transformation of this concept in an exercise of imagination who looks forward to antecipy in order to design the future. In its most ambitious materialisation, the library becomes digital or electronic, whose interest is demonstrated by the interdisciplinary and variety of knowledge areas converging to its study or approach. Throughout this article it will be very discussed, in a very summarised way, the actual research lines, the contribution of the different kinds of knowledge in interaction and some experiences in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Portugal looking forward that, each one in its own approach, can help to design the future. Leaded by inspiring images like the one of the library of Borges or the mythic Alexandria, what it matters is to design the future working conditions.