SUMMARY
The Library was founded In 1894 to provide the bibliographic support to the researches carried out in Museu Goeldi, and, as a consequence of that, has accompanied the phases of increase an decrease of this institution. Since 1954, because of the Accord signed with the Para State Government, Museu Goeldi was trasfered to the administrative area of CNPq, as a subordinate department of INPA, the Library was then reorganized, obtaining larger personnel and financial means, taking a new impulse of growth to regain its position among the best in the country. Now when the CNPq 30th anniversary is celebrated, the Library presents an expressive and specialized colletion (109.364 documents), partakes of national and international programs of cooperation, puts Into practice reciprocal exchanges with 3.245 both foreign and domestic institutions. And. besides its privative finality as a support to the researches carried out in Museu Goeldi, the Library has an average of 8.300 annual users' requests.