Weaving the morning: a study of cultural mediation practices in community libraries in Rede de Pernambuco – Rereading
community libraries; cultural mediation; public reading policies.
This dissertation focuses on community libraries and cultural mediation, aiming to characterize the cultural mediation practices of Community Libraries as instruments that contribute to the cultural appropriation of the communities in which the Releitura libraries are located. It specifically aims to discuss the community library as an instrument of culture in Information Science; to present the cultural mediation and appropriation activities promoted by Releitura's community libraries; to reflect on the role of cultural policies in the functioning of community libraries in the state of Pernambuco; to analyze Releitura's cultural mediation actions as forms of community rooting. Methodologically, this is an exploratory, bibliographic, and ethnographic study, using bibliographic sources and documentary and content analysis, analyzing the actions of the libraries from the texts of implicit and explicit cultural mediation. It is considered essential that public policies are put in place to guarantee the rights to books, reading, literature and libraries, on the part of the public authorities, with a sensitive eye towards shared management and the daily actions of cultural mediation in these spaces. Boosting actions and strengthening community libraries in the state of Pernambuco.