Ação Cultural Em Bibliotecas Universitárias: uma proposta para a Biblioteca Setorial do CCS/UFPB

Abstract

The university libraries are perceived as places of intellectual, social and cultural formation, surpassing the vision of guarding and deposit of books and documents. They have become spaces for social, political, educational, economic and, essentially, cultural reflections, which allows them to enjoy activities of cultural actions to foment such discussions starting from the understanding, reflection and dissemination not only of their collection, but of different cultures of different societies. The librarian, then, canbe considered a cultural agent and mediator of cultural librarian action. To do so, it must be a versatile professional with a comprehensive vision of culture and cultural values. In this case, the proposal of this work was the elaboration of a cultural action project, to be applied in the university library of the Health Sciences Center (CCS), Campus I of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). The objective of this work was to study cultural practices applied to university libraries; reflect on the librarian practice of university librarians; describe the library under study; map, along with the librarians of the institution, the activities of cultural action that need to be implemented. He used bibliographical and descriptive research to understand and describe the institution. It concludes that the application of the proposed cultural action project may contribute to the process of disseminating the collection, raising awareness of relevant topics for health users, innovating services and products offered by the library, socializing users and disseminating the information culture the library.