Ações culturais e educativas na Biblioteca Pública Juarez da Gama Batista

Abstract

Presentsthe theme of cultural and educational actions in public libraries, emphasizing its great importance for the environment in which it operates. These types of actions have the objective of pointing out the educational, pedagogical and social aspects as well as bringing a new meaning to the learning and knowledge process, and thus can contribute for individuals to evolve intellectually, socially and culturally. Given this scenario, the cultural and educational actions carried out by the Juarez da Gama Batista Library (BJGB), located in the neighborhood and Tambauzinho, city of João Pessoa, State of Paraíba, are presented in the research, as well as a survey of the literature on the themes of libraries , public libraries and, cultural and educational actions in libraries; a description of the actions developed by the BJGB and; demonstrating the importance of carrying out cultural actions in libraries. It is an exploratory and descriptive research, with a qualitative approach, in which a questionnaire was used as a data collection instrument, the same was applied to the manager of the referred Library. With the results, it was concluded that the BJGB, develops a set of cultural and educational actions, which contribute significantly to the literary, artistic and cultural formation of the Paraiba society