CONTAINED: THE SPEECHES STILL ALLOWED, THE CONDUCT OF CENSORSHIP AND THE IMPLICATIONS ON THE PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE OF THE LIBRARIAN
Censorship. Power relations over information. Freedom of expression and access to information. Librarian
Censorship is a perennial and universal phenomenon that permeates information relations since the birth of writing. In Brazil it was State policy, officially extinguished with the re-democratization of the country, however, never surpassed. In the Brazilian socio-political context of the end of the 2020 decade, it was once again practiced directly and ostensibly by the State and by civil entities, as demonstrated here by three representative events of censorship of bibliographic works: the censorship of the Queermuseu catalog: cartographies of difference in Brazilian art (2017); censorship of the book Meninos Sem Pátria (2018) and censorship of Graphic Novel Avengers: the children’s crusade (2019). The research aims to discuss the censorship of bibliographic material in contemporary Brazil (2017-2019) and its implications on the activities of information professionals, especially librarians. As problematic, it presents the fact that censorship directly affects the work of information professionals, preventing them from seeking, acquiring, using, keeping, communicating, and disseminating information in the exercise of freedom of expression and information access. Regarding typological aspects, the study is characterized as exploratory, regarding the purposes, due to the contemporary perspective regarding the observation of the censorship phenomenon little explored in Information Science in the Brazilian context; as appropriate means for achieving the objectives, elects bibliographic research, documental. As theoretical input discusses censorship and its historical milestones in Brazil; the power relations on the institutionalized document; authority and validation of discourse; constituted right to freedom of expression and access to information and, finally, the relationship between librarian and censorship. As a result, he understands that the current socio-political context (the end of the 2020 decade) favors the practice of overt censorship in totalitarian ways to the detriment of information professionals and the right to freedom of expression and access to information