Ações de mediação da informação na biblioteca comunitária Moisés Borges da Silva e a formação do protagonismo social

Abstract

This paper discusses the invisibility and challenges faced by community libraries in the city of Teresina. Libraries are dialogical information devices that, through conscious mediating actions, are capable of provoking powerful transformations in the environment in which they are inserted. Community libraries are crucial devices for critical-citizen education and need to be included in public policies formulated and implemented by governments. The investigative work is guided by the following challenge/problem: What information mediation actions are developed by the Moisés Borges da Silva Community Library with a view to the formation and development of social protagonism? This study is justified by the need to understand the community library as a dialogical device for information mediation and, therefore, for the formation and development of social protagonism capable of transforming the scenarios of peripheral communities marked, historically and culturally, by projects of invisibility and social marginalization. To this end, exploratory research, with a bibliographic design and qualitative nature, was used. Regarding the collection of evidence, an open-ended questionnaire was conducted with the library manager. In situ observation was also carried out. Regarding data analysis, content analysis was performed. The results indicate that the library under study develops multiple information mediation actions with the community, including individual and group readings, storytelling, lectures, and workshops. It was verified, based on the evidence, that the dimensions of information mediation are integrated into the actions carried out by the library. It is concluded that the Moisés Borges da Silva community library demonstrates its leading role as an instrument of social transformation. As a contribution, the research offers elements that can support the creation of public policies directed at community libraries, considering the needs of users.