The Library of Congress Rio Office has been actively collecting printed materials issued by a variety of Brazilian organizations and groups. This selective collection of pamphlets, serials, and posters organized by the Rio Office, has been microfilmed by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service working in cooperation with the African/Asian Acquisitions and Overseas Operations Division and the Preservation Reformatting Division.
The collection makes accessible to researchers a body of primary materials, mostly non-commercially produced and difficult to acquire and obtain, which is basic to the study of grass-roots political and social movements in Brazil.
The initial collection, Brazil's Popular Groups: 1966 - 1986, was conceived as a means of documenting popular movements which grew during the period of Brazilian military rule (1964 - 1984) and after the inauguration of Brazil's New Republic in 1985.
The twenty-year retrospective collection is followed by supplements for 1987-1989, 1990-1992 and annually thereafter.
The documentation includes newsletters, house organs, reports, posters, collections of clippings, brochures, resolutions of congresses, educational manuals, independent news services, catalogs of publications and handouts. Geographically, all states of Brazil are represented in the collection.
The collection is arranged by subject, with fourteen broad topical groups:
- Agrarian Reform and Land Issues
- Children and Youth
- Education and Communication
- Environment and Ecology
- Ethnic Groups: Blacks
- Ethnic Groups: Indians
- Ethnic Groups: Others
- Homosexual and Bisexual
- Human and Civil Rights
- Labor and Laboring Classes
- Political Parties and Issues
- Religious Organizations, Ecumenical Groups and Movements
- Urban Activism
- Women and Feminists
Within each subject group, pamphlets are followed by serials arranged alphabetically by title. Three indexes, by author, title and publisher, are provided for pamphlets, serials and posters.
Brazil’s Popular Groups: Farewell Microfilm, Hello Digitization!
The collection set for 2016 is the last year of microfilmed BPG items. The Library has entered into an agreement with Princeton University Library whereby the Rio de Janeiro Office will continue to collect pamphlet materials on the same topics but will ship them to Princeton for full-text digitizing and ingestion into their Latin American Ephemera Collection instead of microfilming them. The items that could be considered “serials” will be fully cataloged and retained by the Library of Congress as are other serials; posters will also continue to be retained by the Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Division. The Library will receive selective digital copies from Princeton of the content for its files. Access to the Princeton University Latin American Ephemera Collection (https://libguides.princeton.edu/laec) is free of charge. It is expected that the merger of these two projects will enhance and facilitate better usage of the BPG materials for scholars and researchers for years to come.
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Last Updated: March 28, 2018
