Organización y estudio de la colección de manuscritos que conserva la Biblioteca Nacional de México: Proyecto en proceso

Abstract

This paper treats about the origin, development, and advances to date of the project regarding the organization and bibliographical study of the Manuscript Collection of the Mexican National Library (MNL), which I submitted to the Institute of Bibliographical Research in 2008. Since 2009 a multidisciplinary and collective social service program, under the overview of the mentioned project, has been in operation, and twenty three students from various fields —library sciences, design, philosophy, history, classical and Hispanic literature— have participated. Their collaboration has played a decisive role in identifying and cataloguing the collection mentioned above. To date, 80% of the volumes and lone manuscripts have been inventoried, insomuch as there have been notable advances in representing these documents. This has been so especially thanks to the library science students, who have been learning the aleph system and the marc format. Under the project’s auspices, five pupils from the School of Library Sciences obtained the bachelors degree, while three other participants are working on their dissertations concerning the mnl manuscripts.