The educational role of the library and the librarian: a study on the Rachel de Queiroz Library in Fortaleza/CE

• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Jefferson Veras
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Paes, Denyse Maria Borges
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista EDICIC
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.edicic.org/revistaedicic/article/view/36
• topic: Papel de las Bibliotecas; Mediación de la Lectura; Bibliotecário-Educador; Papel das Bibliotecas; Mediação da Leitura; Bibliotecário-Educador; Role of Libraries; Reading Mediation; Librarian-Educator

Aims to discuss the educational dimension of the library and the librarian. Accordingly, it presents a reflection on the role of libraries since the nineteenth century until the present day. Places the practice of mediation in reading and information as a key task of the librarian as an educator and agent of social transformation. The methodology was performed, firstly, a literature on the subject, and in the second step, was undertaken a field survey of stamp qualitative, in which he sought to observe and interact for a period of four months with users and run rivers of Rachel de Queiroz Library, located in Fortaleza/CE and maintained by Social Service of Trade Agreements (SESC). Data collection was conducted between May and September of 2010 and took a sample of 10 subjects of mixed age and both sexes.