La biblioteca y las publicaciones científico-técnicas de la Junta de Obras del Puerto de Santander: (1873-1945)

Abstract

This doctoral research is oriented toward the cultural heritage of engineering through the study of book circuit and, specifically, on the training of the technical library of the Junta de Obras del Puerto de Santander between 1873 and 1945, taking as a point of departure the economic documents generated by Port of Santander, which corresponds with the documentary series called Cuentas Generales, preserved in the Documentation Center of the Port Authority of Santander The elaboration of a bibliography of maritime engineering and port between 1873 and 1945, has not only provided a powerful tool of work that paves the work of researchers and interested in the specialized libraries of maritime and port engineering, helping the studies on the evolution of the technological knowledge in port infrastructure and its construction procedures at the end of the XIX century and the first half of the twentieth century, but has also allowed reconstruction of the book trade technical, the history of reading and the circuits of written culture (with special detail in the trade of paper and identification of the watermarks) in the city of Santander between 1873 and 1945.