Considered as the first virtual information system of a company in Brazil, it describes the Natura Cosméticos S. A virtual libraryphilosophy, implantation, history and functions. Due its vertiginous growing, followed by the begining of na informative sustentation structure which could support the products and processes improvement and which could bring the information about the most advanced discoveries in the worldwide cosmetology. The company was looking for a methodology that could also organize, systematize and dispose the information quickly through selective pertinence and significant criteria. The company believed inneficacious the internal library old paradigm repetition, face a market globalization scenery, where the information access should no be limited to the information the could be stored within a library room. More important than to have information should be to know where to find it quickly and efficiently, since information store does not means to have it when needed. Information store has a cost almost always underestimated during the creation of information systems which intend to be effective concerning the information prospection and diffusion. The Natura's Bibliographic Information Centre has it work focused to the external information access and not to the internal information collection. It describes the characteristics, activities and products of this virtual system.
Virtual library; Companies; Referencial information systems
