A ação cultural em arquivos universitários: uma análise do Arquivo Geral da Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Abstract

Cultural action is aimed to promote equitable culture in the society by means of practices that promote the cultural knowledge in the different social ambits. The archives, while a knowledge organization, should offer activities of cultural action to disseminate their collection and to promote democratic access to the archival information. Face on these reflections, this study is aimed to comprehend the manner in which cultural action can influence in the responsibility and social role of the university archives, by means of a case study. It is a descriptive and bibliographic research with qualitative approach, which intended to describe the activities related to the cultural actions in the General Public Archive of the Pro Rectory Administrative of the Federal University of Paraíba, mapping the activities of cultural actions related to the studied archive; to analyze practices of activities of the found cultural actions; to understand the role of the archivist in the realization of cultural actions directed to the ambit of Higher Education. The analysis enabled to conclude that, although cultural actions in information units, essentially in archives, help in the opportunity of approximation of the user with the culture, in the dissemination of archival information, the archive managers deal with problem situations that difficult or impede the realization of the activities of cultural action in their archives. Furthermore, the scarce literature in the area also hinders reflections about the importance of these actions in university archives.