BRIEF HISTORY Federal University of Uberlândia Library was established in 1976 with the merging of eight isolated local colleges’ collections, which was completed in 1978. In 1989, Library System of Federal University of Uberlândia (SISBI/UFU) was created, centralizing all acquisition activities and technical processing. Santa Mônica Library was the first large library to be built, it was inaugurated on November 7, 1991, to receive the collections of the first schools set up in Santa Mônica campus, namely: (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Chemical) Engineering, Law School, Arts, Philosophy, Economic Sciences and Business School. This library is called Santa Monica Central Library because it gathers all SISBI/UFU superior administration and sectors that develop the library services, such as: selection, acquisition, preparation, cataloging, classification and treatment of all informational material acquired for SISBI/UFU libraries. Second in size, Umuarama Sectoral Library was built in at the same time as Santa Mônica's and was soon opened on November 12, 1991. It received the collections of schools existing at that time in Umuarama campus: Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Agronomy Schools. Also contemporary to the above quoted ones, Physical Education Sectoral Library was opened on December 6, 1990, to receive the collection of the only existing school at that time, Physical Education School. In addition to these university libraries, a basic education library also composes SISBI/UFU, named Basic Education Sectoral Library, opened in December 1988, along with current UFU’s Basic Education School campus. Ituiutaba Sectoral Library was established in May 2007 to meet the information demand of FACIP (Pontal Integrated Sciences), as part of UFU expansion program* in Pontal Triângulo Mineiro to satisfy the demand of Administration, Biological Sciences, Accounting Sciences, Physics, Geography, History, Chemistry and Pedagogy programs, and later of Social Service and Production Engineering programs. After some changes, it is set up in the multipurpose building in FACIP complex, since 2011. Monte Carmelo Sectoral Library was established in April 2011 to support the campus (created back in 2010) information demand, by expanding UFU's expertise area, with the following programs: Agronomy, Information Systems and Surveying and Cartography Engineering. In July 2014, the library was transferred to a new multipurpose building in Monte Carmelo campus. Patos de Minas Sectoral Library was also established in April 2011 to meet the campus (created back in 2010) information demand by expanding UFU's expertise area, with programs in Biotechnology, Food Engineering and Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. It is currently set up in the campus’ Administrative Center building which has individual and group study rooms, research desks, service sector, lockers and internal service rooms, besides the book collection. University Hospital Sectoral Library "Professor Ivan Miranda Vieira", the latest SISBI/UFU library, is a specialized library and was opened on November 21, 2012, for the purpose of providing residents, faculty, doctors, nurses and other health professionals with an adequate environment for study inside Uberlândia University Hospital (HCU), research works and online database, and scientific document exchange (COMUT). The library is currently installed in room 21, of the upper floor of building 2M, at Umuarama campus. PHISYCAL SPACE SISBI/UFU is composed of eight libraries and serves UFU entire academic community, as well as Uberlândia's and nearby community. SISBI/UFU total physical area is 11.675,70 m2. Santa Mônica Central Library - Central Library Natural Sciences, Human Sciences, Applied Social Sciences, Engineering, Linguistics, Literature and Arts) - 5,735m², in a two-story building. Umuarama Sectoral Library – Sectoral Library (Agrarian Sciences and Life Sciences, Human Sciences and Health Sciences) – 3.988m², distributed in three floors; Physical Education Sectorial Educação Física - Sectorial Library (Health Sciences) - 267m2; Ituiutaba Sectoral Library -Sectoral Library (Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences, Humanities and Applied Social Sciences) - 580m2; Basic Education Sectoral Library - Sector Library (Early Education and Elementary School) - 250m2; Monte Carmelo Sectoral Library - Sectoral library (Natural Sciences and Agricultural Sciences) - 648,02m2; Patos de Minas Sector Library - Sector Library (Biological and Engineering Sciences) - 173,28m²; University Hospital Sectoral Library- Sector Library (Biological Sciences and Health Sciences) - 34,4m². The libraries physical area consists of spaces for technical and administrative services, collection, group and individual study rooms, group study booths, loan, local base research and specialized spaces such as: exhibition hall, search desk, UFU memory, reserve room, audio-visual material room, space for notebooks, special collections rooms, 24h study room, and Auditorium. HUMAN RESOURCES SISBI/UFU staff is comprised of technical and administrative positions in education: 20 librarians (ten in home services, six in the outer area and four in the administrative area); 67 administrative assistants; 21 outsourced employees and five trainees working in technical services, public services, furniture and physical space analysis, and formal and informal training for using catalog and available services. SISBI/UFU COLLECTIONS DEVELOPMENT POLICY Forming and developing collection are both are conducted by policies set between SISBI/UFU and representatives of basic, fundamental, technical education, undergraduate and graduate programs, aimed at the planned qualitative (adequacy of the collection to academic teaching programs, research, extension) and quantitative (related to use and availabity of collection ) growth, meeting MEC's demands. SISBI/UFU libraries’ collection comprises informational material acquired by purchase, donation and/or exchange. Besides printed and electronic books, SISBI/UFU collection consists of other types of materials, such as sheet music, technical standards, CDs, DVDs, plays, vinyl records, cassette tapes, art catalogs and special collections of renowned authors and researchers, bibliophiles, personalities, among others: Special Collection, Jacy de Assis Special Collection, Aricy Curvello Special Collection, Yan Michalski Special Collection, Antonio Mercado Neto Special Collection, Litto Special Collection, Jodacil Damaceno Special Collection, Dr. Kerr Special Collection, Homero Santos Special Collection, Dr. Hélio Benicio Special Collection, Agriculture Special Collection, UFU Memory Special Collection, Texts and Theater Posters Special Collection, Art Special Collection Books and Rare Books Special Collection. Every acquisition is made by UFU faculty and Academic Directory student representatives, according to the bibliographic consistency considering the update and the theoretical and practical aspects of training. SISBI/UFU receives large amount of informational material donation. The donor must sign the "Informational Material Donation Agreement" which guarantees SISBI/UFU autonomy to shelve or not the works. Exchange, another acquisition type, is performed only with periodicals published by UFU, available in printed version and according to the policy adopted in agreement with the publishers. Each library Collection is arranged according to the campus knowledge area where the library is, except when faculty justifies the need for relocation of informational materials to another library, for the benefit of students. SISBI/UFU aims to meet faculty, graduates and staff information needs, collaborating to the institutional trinomial of teaching, research and extension, defining criteria for collection updating and development, such as: to establish criteria for works selection by observing the quantity and quality, according to the programs characteristics and needs; to permanently update the collection, allowing its growth and balance; to set priorities and deadlines for the acquisition of informational materials; to direct, to streamline and to manage financial resources; to establish, to formalize and to manage the exchange of periodicals published by UFU; to establish guidelines for the evaluation of collections; to define policies for material disposal. As for the collection arrangement, the informational material must be selected according to the following criteria: adequacy of the academic curriculum to the institution research lines; content updating and quality; amount (excess/shortage) of material on a same subject in the collection; subject coverage/treatment; justifiable cost–benefit ratio; accessible language; potential users; material physical conditions; original publications; format compatible with existing equipment; if it is a periodical publication, it must: not be available online with free access; be indexed in some data base with high Quails (Capes) classification; not cover multidisciplinary content. In order to ensure a rational and balanced Collection growth, it is necessary to adopt quantitative and qualitative development criteria. The qualitative development involves constant publication of the acquisition periods of informational material and demands the units in order to fulfill this assignment. And to ensure the quality of the selection process, faculty must: update basic and complementary bibliographies in pedagogical projects; request the purchase of bibliographies via SISBI/UFU electronic