Bibliotecas privadas: cartografia da cidade de João Pessoa

Abstract

The study looked at libraries as a private heritage and requires an understanding of the term and its variants as a personal or private library. Therefore, it was asked how private libraries of Paraíba intellectuals are constituted and what do they reveal about their owners? In order to answer the guiding question, we set as general objective to understand the trajectory of the personal private Libraries of personalities from Paraíba. And, as specific, to characterize the personal private Libraries of personalities from Paraíba; to trace the formation path of the personal private libraries of Paraíba personalities and, to know the reader profile of Paraíba personalities who own libraries. Qualitative research of the bibliographical a documentary type, associated with thematic Oral History was adopted as methodological assumption. The results made in possible to register the private libraries of Neide Medeiros Santos and Hildeberto Barbosa Filho, intellectuals from Paraíba, this study glimpsed the reading trajectory of each personality, recorded through interviews the process of reading training, highlighting the works idealized by each personality. Finally, it opened space for new questions regarding the lack of research that permeates personal libraries nationwide.