Biblioteca Escolar no Brasil: reflexões acerca da biblioteca da Escola Municipal Duque de Caxias com base nas diretrizes IFLA/UNESCO

Abstract

Objective of this work is to discuss the role and importance of school libraries, based on the analysis of the recommendations contained in the IFLA/UNESCO guidelines, specific to this area. Through the analysis of this manifesto, allied to the theories and discussions proposed by scholars in the area, as well as to the reading of scientific articles, we will highlight important aspects in relation to the subject, with the specific objective of applying the knowledge to the analysis of a library of the teaching municipal network in the city of João Pessoa. In this way, we will try to demonstrate the importance of school libraries as places that, when used in a recommended way, can serve as a space for social transformation. We use the qualitative approach and bibliographical / exploratory research, suggesting proposals to assist and meet the real needs of the users of the analyzed school library, mainly based on the development of a policy of collections development. As a result, we believe that there is still much to be achieved with regard to what the guidelines of the above document recommend, so that we present feasible suggestions in an attempt to optimize the role of the library as an indispensable space for educational practice, not only in the specific school context under analysis.