About pleasure policies: leisure in Library and Information Science thinking terms and its dimension applied to library institutionalization

• Autor(a) principal: Saldanha, Gustavo Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Rachel de Melo Vellozo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: InCID
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/incid/article/view/109696
• topic: Library and Information Science; Library; Leisure; Cultural Action; Cultural Activities; Library and Information Science; Library; Leisure; Cultural Action; Cultural Activities

The library viewed as a leisure space was the object of study of the present article. The issue of the construction of mechanisms to develop policies of entertainment in the scope of Library and Information Science is discussed. The general objective was to analyze leisure, in Library Science and Information Science thinking terms, starting from its theoretical approaches and its institutional concreteness. Methodological procedures were carried out through bibliographical study in specialized literature. An analysis of the concepts of cultural action, cultural animation, and leisure began with the bibliographical input; and the library, in general, concerning the usefulness of its physical space. Likewise, an analysis of the set of approaches about leisure in libraries, concerning their closeness to the concept of leisure in Library and Information Science. They are: the approach on cultural action and cultural activities providing leisure space at the library; and the approach on the library as leisure space. It was observed that the studies referring to leisure, cultural action, and cultural activities deserve greater attention, given its scarcity in literature. It is worth pointing out the limitations of the present article and indications to new research, in order to critically enrich the studies dedicated to the leisure domain in libraries and in Library and Information Science literature.