Biblioteca Comunitária Lanchoteca Atitude: ações culturais e educativas para a promoção do acesso à informação

Abstract

The research aims to present the cultural and educational actions carried out by the Lanchoteca Atitude Community Library, located in the city of Caiçara - Paraíba. The choice of the theme in question started from our interest in perceiving how social actors, individual or collective, have been organized through community libraries in order to respond to the demands caused by the lack of information, experienced by portions of Brazilian society, and thus promote the access to information. For that, a methodology appropriate to studies of social realities was used. Thus, due to our object of study, our research was characterized as bibliographical and field as to its object, as descriptive as to its objectives, and qualitative approach. Data were collected using the participant direct observation technique and the application of a mixed type questionnaire. As a result, it was observed that through its volunteer group, the Lanchoteca Atitude Community Library has been carrying out cultural and educational actions, especially aimed at encouraging reading. It was also possible to conclude that the aforementioned actions have had repercussions both among the volunteers and in the community of Caiçara, despite the reported difficulties, especially in the order of lack of resources and attraction of volunteering. However, it is notorious that the Lanchoteca Atitude Community Library has been able to bring information to the community as an initiative aimed at social inclusion and the promotion of citizenship.