Abstract
The present paper analyzes the development of the concept of institutional memory in Information Science and discusses the issue of memory in Archival Science as well as public and private archival institutions. This study aimed to demonstrate that the emergence of Memory Centers in Brazil over the 1970s is associated to the importance given to institutional memory which, in turn, became vital to organizations. Unlike constantly changing and efficacy-related organizational memory, institutional memory has to do with the historical responsibility of intitutional producers. It might be (re)constructed by means of archives.
Keywords:
Archival Science; Memory; Institutional memory