Bibliotecas comunitárias: atuação cultural, contribuição social e humana a classes populares

Abstract

The research investigated the works developed by a community library located in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. For that, it was in search of understanding the history of the struggle for the emancipation of the enslaved, passing through quilombos and tenements, in addition to all the colonial repression experienced until arriving at the appearance of the favelas. Drawing on black and black authors, the relevance of reflection on new epistemologies and, among them, decoloniality, was analyzed, in order to bring new knowledge to academic research, which contributed greatly to the conception of what space is. community, understood as one who welcomes, resists adversity and where cooperation — similar to a village in Burkina Faso — is the main factor that makes the work of mutual aid happen. Focused on the concept of community library and the difference between this model of action and that of other libraries, the research produced a survey of laws and plans to encourage books and reading until reaching the National Book and Reading Plan (PNLL) and culminated in an interview — using informal conversation methodology — carried out with a community library agent. The interviewee's speech in dialogue with theoretical contributions contributed to understanding the meanings of mediation of reading in cultural spaces created in communities, quite different from other ways of dealing with reading, proposed by schools.