De aeroportos, aviões e nuvens: leitura pública em bibliotecas plurifuncionais de Portugal e do Brasil

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.