| Brazilian Federation of Associations of Librarians, Information Scientists and Institutions | |
| Native Name: | Federação Brasileira de Associações de Bibliotecários, Cientistas da Informação e Instituições |
| Abbreviation: | FEBAB |
| Type: | Non-profit organization |
| Purpose: | "To defend and encourage the development of the profession." |
| Headquarters: | São Paulo, Brazil |
| Region Served: | Brazil |
| Leader Title: | President |
| Leader Name: | Jorge Moisés Kroll do Prado |
| Num Staff: | 1 |
| Num Volunteers: | 10 |
The Brazilian Federation of Associations of Librarians, Information Scientists and Institutions (Portuguese: Federação Brasileira de Associações de Bibliotecários, Cientistas da Informação e Instituições, but simply known by its acronym FEBAB) is a non-profit organization in Brazil. Its mission is to "defend and encourage the development of the profession." FEBAB is the oldest library association in the country, founded in 1959; it is also the largest. Its headquarters is in São Paulo. The organization is a federation of 16 library associations, some active and some inactive, one for each state of Brazil. Each state library association has its own organization and governing body, but generally meet in conjunction with other FEBAB meetings. FEBAB members participate in international activities as part of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
FEBAB emerged from a proposal by Laura Russo (1915–2001) and Rodolfo Rocha Júnior during the 2nd Congress of Libraries and Documentation (CBBD) in Salvador, Bahia in 1959. The organization as incorporated on July 26, 1959, with the main objective of defending and encouraging the development of librarianship as a profession. Laura Russo served as the first president of the organization, serving from 1961 to 1975.
Russo, along with Maria Alice Toledo Leite and Maria Helena Brandão procured a headquarters for the organization in São Paulo in 1969. The librarian Neusa Dias de Macedo noted in 1989 that the first thirty years of the organization was marked by "financial and administrative infrastructure difficulties".
The Brazilian Federal Council of Librarianship (Portuguese: Conselho Federal de Biblioteconomia, CFB) was created in 1965. In contrast to FEBAB, which is responsible for training and promoting librarianship as a profession, the CFB acts as a representative body for librarians in the Brazilian state and federal government.
FEBAB consists of a general assembly, a board of directors, an executive board, a fiscal council, associated commissions, and working groups. Members of the executive board serve for three terms, and include a president, vice-president, directors of administration, communication and publications, events, political and professional training. It additionally includes the regional directors from the sixteens states of Brazil and a member of the fiscal council.
FEBAB has 11 commissions and working groups, each with their own area of responsibility and governance. They roughly correspond to the commissions and working groups of other national library associations, and include the:
FEBAB holds annual or biannual conferences, which include the Brazilian Congress on Library and Documentation (CBBD); the International Congress on Archives, Libraries, Documentation Centers and Museums; SENABRAILLE, the National Seminar on Braille Libraries; and the National Seminar of University Libraries.
The primary publication of FEBAB is an academic journal, the Revista Brasileira de Biblioteconomia e Documentação (English: Brazilian Journal of Librarianship and Documentation). It dates to 1973 and replaced an newsletter, Boletim Informativo, published since 1960. The organization also hosts numerous publications, notably of translations of international library standards and other documents issued by the International Federation of Library Associations.