It is important to highlight that the STF was a pioneer in the development of virtual judicial services and its activities in all areas, although, with adaptations and respect for the protocols, were not suspended. Thus, given the impossibility of working in person, each library team thought and planned activities that could be done remotely in order not to harm the library’s workflow, that is, provide information and subsidize the court’s jurisdictional provision. The work on the bank of normative acts and on the indexing of items from the digital collections of ancient jurisprudence was expanded. On the other hand, we also observed the possibility of expanding the processing of digital material in remote work, as a way to expand the use of the team’s remote workforce. Regarding usage of databases, the users’ independence in conducting research in the databases was observed, in addition to the expanded possibility of remote research by research librarians to meet demands. Thanks to this process, there was an optimization of the use of the material in the collection, saving time and even paper. Gradually, the information that is digitized is inserted in each worksheet for processing this material.
Additionally, the library uses an internal collection of about 60,000 items of articles and book chapters from the collection previously digitized to meet previous research and which are kept in a specific drive. On the other hand, there was an expansion of virtual services and also in relation to the access to items from the subscribed databases of books and periodicals. Nowadays, the library maintains subscriptions, like Biblioteca Digital Forum de Direito, Biblioteca Digital Proview e HeinOnline Latin American Core. And, even if informally, the use of whatsapp was intensified among colleagues.īrazil’s Supreme Court – By Leandro Ciuffo – Flickr, CC BY 2.0Ī great effort was made to maintain the library’s activities, namely, selection, acquisition, bibliographic processing, virtual services (with the provision of copies of journal articles and book chapters, with respect to Brazilian copyright law – Lei 9.610, de ) and expansion of digital collections. Obviously, during 2020 the quantity of these activities was reduced, such as, for example, circulation of bibliographic material and digitization for the formation of digital collections from works from the collection itself. The use of Teams platform was made widely available. All phone extensions were routed to the servers’ private cell phones and the Court’s Information Technology Secretariat began to make adjustments so that the entire court staff, not just the librarians, could actually work remotely. The service began to be designed remotely. In the first 15 days of the pandemic, where we did not knowing what to do, or what it would be like, or how long it would last, the library’s public servers were put into remote work immediately. Since the beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020, the Library of the Supreme Court (STF) has followed the decisions of the Court and the guidelines of the government health team regarding the protocol for the resumption of services and activities. This webinar is part of the Conference on Access to Information: Latin America and the Caribbean (CAI:LAC). Please join us on Tuesday, September 21 at 4pm (New York) for a webinar on Accessing Brazilian Legislative and Judicial Information.
AMY FLICK MD SERIES
This is a series of reports by the AALL FCIL-SIS Latin American Law Interest Group and Latino Caucus in a project monitoring COVID-19 legal responses in the Latin America and Caribbean region.
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