DOCUMENTARY RESCUE OF POPULAR TRADITIONS OF THE CENTRAL AREA CANTONS HEREDIA PROVINCE

This paper presents the results of documentary rescue demonstrations performed in different counties present in the central area of the province of Heredia.This idea was enhanced thanks to the Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has provided the rescue and preservation of folk traditions, both tangible and intangible, throughout the world.Coupled with this, the Ministry of Education under the direction of Professor Manuel Antonio Bolaños, launched in the administration of La Espriella Pacheco (2002-2006) the development of an educational project aimed at rescuing the popular traditions of the province of Heredia, which under the title"Draft Heredianidad" became one of the main inspiring to be translated into a multimedia all information collected in the process of this research.The final graduation consisted of three major axes: the memory, the media containing all the information collected and a database in which (the) user (s) and to describe the bibliographic production on the subject of popular traditions Heredia has occurred, would help to physically locate these publications.To achieve the objectives we proceeded to conduct visits to public libraries and municipalities in the province as well as interviews with different artistic personalities of the cantons heredianos, thereby gained access to various legends, anecdotes, stories, songs, music and history of the province of Heredia.

Towards a Research Proposal Outline of the Central Library

Few studies relating to librarianship as a science, because it is argued that the Library lacks a body of theory, an object of study and methodology of its own. According to Murcia and Tamayo "science is a critical task not dogmatic, that puts all its cases to trial and criticism." 0 is, science tests the presumed knowledge. He adds that science related facts and interconnected with each other, in order to achieve logical connections that allow the provision of postulates and axioms from the systematization achieved through research and the scientific method to determine the objectivity that exists between facts and phenomena. For him, scientific research is the instrument by which science makes it to scientific knowledge. (1982, p. 11)