"Hasta la revolución...y información!" : Análise histórica sobre o desenvolvimento dos campos em biblioteconomia e ciência da informação em cuba (1959-2008)

Historical analysis, based on literature review of secondary sources, identifying the development of the Information Science and Librarianship in Cuba, between the 1959 revolution until the end of Fidel Castro’s Regime, in 2008. This work initially made a historical analysis about the origins of the Librarianship in Cuba until the 1950s, and how the information and library fields in Cuba are organized in the first years after the 1959 revolution. Later, the research discuss the information projects and systems produced in the country in the 1970s and 1980s, based on similar examples made by the socialist bloc, and how was the principal characteristics of the Information Science and Librarianship in Cuba after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. This research found that, despite the problems suffered by theses fields after the dissolution of the communist bloc, the Librarianship and Information Science scenes in Cuba presents consistency in their structure and constitution