In the early twentieth century, in the midst of modernization actions of the state itself, the Brazilian National Library held a fruitful exchange with various international institutions. Through the information contained in its reports institutional sought, in this article, to show the actions undertaken by the National Library in search of what we call its "internationalization" in the period from 1905 to 1915. We used as a methodological procedure, the removal of sections of the reports, selecting those whose titles were related to these actions internationalization. Then we analyzed each section, extracting the information that corroborated with the research objectives. In conclusion even partial, it was found that the National Library of fact sought contacts with foreign institutions, aimed at modernizing their methods and techniques of treating its collection as well as the recovery of part of Brazil's history in the archives of exterior, and perform actions exchanges with various institutions.
Institutional memory; Institutional reports; Internationalization; National Library
