Biblioteca pública: da extensão à ação cultural como prática de cidadania. / Public library: from extension to cultural action as citizenship practice.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The conceptions and the roles that the public library has played since the mid-nineteenth century are described. A revision of literature is made to show the evolution of these roles and their coexistence, as well as the advent of expansion process in the early twentieth century, and its diversification. The concept of public library as cultural action is linked to the extension process and theoretical framework of this paper, whose concept, expressed by Paulo Freire, Victor Flusser, Luiz Milanesi and José Teixeira Coelho Neto, supports our thesis. Some records of extension experiments with characteristics of cultural action are made, using a methodology based on dialogue, participation and general awareness raising. An experiment of library extension carried out in Araxá, Minas Gerais, through the Mobile Unit of the Viriato Correia Public Library is described, which was used as a case study for the proposal of transformation of a public library as an instrument of cultural action. Some partner institutions, which took the initiative of making contact with the peripheral communities, were responsible for the experiment, an integrated, interdisciplinary task. The partnership with the Centro Universitário do Planalto de Araxá (University Centre of Planalto de Araxá), through the Centre of Judicial Practice and the Social Security Agency was fundamental. The evaluation of the experiment is made from the observation of its development, the opinion and personal accounts of the interviewees: people from the community, professionals, civil servants, teachers, trainees, and all of those who got involved in this process. Finally, a reflection on the following points is made: the library as an institution, which was the focus of this work; the research developed, which deepened the theoretical knowledge about cultural action, and finally, the authors own stand point, her personal involvement in the experiment. As far as the author is concerned it was an important theoretical / practical learning process for her professional improvement, as well as a contribution to Scienc of the Information and to librarianship as a study of a model of library extension with new communication trends, and the integration of social groups who live far away from the urban centres and who, in the majority, do not have access to information services, essential to the full exercise of citizenship.

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public library citizenship cultural action ciencia da informacao biblioteca pública ação cultural extension service cidadania serviço de extensão

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