Comunidade e biblioteca pública: aproximações sociológicas para se pensar a emergência contemporânea

Abstract

The social function of the public library is closely linked to a given geographical space in order to develop actions that integrate demands for information, education and culture in the community. This fundamental notion assigns the list of operational attributes of political competencies legitimized in historical processes to these institutions. With the aim of analyzing the theoretical context qualified to the sense of community, this article established a reflection on the social role of the public library in contemporary times. Methodologically, a bibliographical research was carried out, guided by the literature review oriented by the questions presented by Rabello (1987), Sperry (1993), Pinheiro (2009) and Milanesi (2013). As a result, it was found that public libraries are currently losing space in the repertoire of interests of their community. Failla (2021) found this trend in two surveys carried out successively in Brazil, in the years 2015 and 2020. Whit this, the present study recommended consistent changes in the effective approximation of the public library with the community through the systematic and purposeful articulation of its institutional structure, involving adequacy of concepts and community studies to align with the information needs of the new times.