Bibliotecas Comunitárias: espaços alternativos de acesso aos saberes registrados em Manaus

Abstract

This research entitled "Community Libraries: alternative spaces of access to recorded knowledge in Manaus", aims to analyze the context of formation of alternative spaces of access to information, as conjectured community libraries in the city of Manaus. It is based on theoretical studies of: Lopez (2003), Faccion Junior (2005), Obrenovich (2006), Soares (2007), Vieira (2007), Machado (2005) and (2008), Madellar (2010), Prado ( 2010), Santos (2010), among others, about the study of community libraries throughout Brazil. A qualitative study that seeks to analyze the dynamic context of the object and its subject that included three phases: literature search; exploratory research, results and analysis. Grounded in anthropological methodology, the research focused on the subject as the primary source, using the participant observation and the following instruments for its realization: field notebook, open and semi-structured interviews, the use of tape recorders and capture images. Spaces were analyzed 2 community libraries in the city of Manaus, 2 informants were interviewed subjects creators and 20 residents of the communities where they are installed, totaling 22 participants. Presents an approach on the institution's library, in general, providing subsidies for understanding an information unit from a historical context, concepts and typologies and relevance of the institution to society, as well as some considerations about the aspects that contributed the emergence of community library in the country and the focus of the public library in the city of Manaus, historical and supply. It talks about the community libraries, whose intention is to meet these environments through a theoretical framework for grasping the nature of the study, as well as its initiatives in Brazil. Analyzes community libraries in the city of Manaus, given the prospect of these guys for their creation and engagement with these local institutions. From the results, it was observed that the motivations that drove the guys with the idealization of community libraries were, initially, of a personal nature and further motivated by the opportunity to raise a collective good. The construction of the units had plans through projects organized and structured, and with the support of public and private entities and also with the involvement of qualified personnel and the community, the latter in only one of the environments. In contrast, although created for the population that curtails, which was confirmed by the subjects that the idealized, was visible the low involvement of the local community towards the use of these environments, where few know about its existence nearby and most respondents do not recognize it as a community library.