ANDRADE, Valéria.; ALMEIDA, Leandro de Sousa.
Abstract:
The work presents the results of a study based on a bibliographic revision concerning the potential of public reading
mediated by libraries in the criticai and Creative reading formation of users in order to contribute to the formation
of cultural identity and the exercise of citizenship. Libraries meet specific socio-cultural development objectives in
the territories where they are located, meaning they can and should dialogue with the contextuai needs for
transformation of the respective realities, often marked by deprivation of access to knowledge, which results in
illiteracy and low leveis of education. Access to information provides the opportunity to build knowledge, produce
Science, technology and innovation through the power of public Reading, promoted mainly through the
democratization of access to books. Historians such as Alberto Manguei (1997), Frédéric Bardier (2018), Cristian
Brayner (2018) and Irene Valejo (2022) encourage us to look at the millennial history of resistance of libraries in order
to engage in the struggle for the maintenance of these cultural spaces for public reading, as well as the redefinition
of their use through plurifunctionality.
