The Centro de Documentação e Memória da Mogiana: University Extension and Management of Historical Documents of the Coffee Period

Abstract

The coffee historical documentation, belonging to the production coffee cycle in the Ribeirão Preto region, even in the basements of dispersed farms or centralized in public institutes, can add value to the national cultural heritage. However, access to such documents is limited mainly by the poor state of preservation, storage, often incorrect, and inappropriate means to access the information. We propose the establishment of a documentation center with the functions: to clean, to conserve and to scan documents that aproach the regional History of Coffee. The work had character of extension and university research involving students of the University of São Paulo, of Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, of the respective courses: Medical Physics, Psychology and Information Sciences.