Cultural action in the library of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Maranhão - Campus Timon: between silences and ruptures
Libraries Mixed. Cultural Actions. Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Maranhão - Timon Campus. Culture of Silence - Library.
With social, cultural and humanistic development, it was essential the organization to disseminate information and knowledge produced. In this way, the emergence of a space in which human knowledge accumulated over the centuries was socialized became vital. Thus emerged the first libraries, institutions promoting and socializing information. However, it was not until the fifteenth century, during the Renaissance - a movement for artistic, literary and scientific reform that originated in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe - that libraries became fully engaged in socializing knowledge. Previously, they were relegated to the main role of conservation and bookkeeping, and conceived as a hostile, gloomy, dusty and silent environment. Thus, new conceptions and configurations of libraries appeared: public, private, specialized, community, mixed. This last, considered the most recent typology, will be the scenario of the process of construction of this research. The following research problem is constituted: what are the effects of cultural actions in the dynamization of the library as a pedagogical and information production space? What are the implications of silence and / or absence of sounds for the dynamization of the library as a space for social and educational transformation? Its general objective is to propose a cultural action plan to break the culture of silence in the IFMA-Campus Timon library. The specific objectives are: to identify the social role of the librarian in the process of mediation in cultural actions; encourage reading in different looks and paper formats; discuss reading incentive actions and cultural production in the IFMA library as a form of dialogue between the "silence" and the multiple actions promoted by the library in question. It subsidizes the methodological course with the orientations of exploratory research, action research, and the qualitative approach. In view of this design, it is expected, as a result of the study and the actions carried out, to facilitate access to information and promote the taste for reading and culture at the IFMA Timon Campus, transforming the local library into a dynamic and pleasant space, as well as propose to the librarians of the institution that they develop a profile of cultural agent, able to transcend barriers and create conditions for the library to really act as a space for cultural production and creation. It is also hoped that the research findings reveal results that could contribute to the rupture of the culture of silence in the library, breaking with the traditional paradigms inherent in the form of access and use of information.