Culture mediation in school libraries

Authors

  • Diego Andrés Salcedo Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE
  • Riane Melo de Freitas Alves Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2014.145

Keywords:

Culture, Library, Mediation, School

Abstract

Many are the schools libraries, and many are the young students who need to attend it for assistance in their activities or simply have a quiet place to concentrate. But the school library may have much more to offer. The librarian can work as a mediator and bring to that environment various activities for the improvement of the cultural learning process of that audience. The cultural mediation can be done in various ways like playing, painting, exhibiting as such transforming it in a cultural device. And just as important as for the operation of this device, it is the interaction of the groups linked into mediation. An adequate phisycal space and mediators connected with the current world are some of the factors for the development of a good mediation. The school library is analyzed as a way in which the culture (whatever it is) is forwarded to that such cusiour audience, that has an open mind to the entrance of differente knowledge and hence culturally rich individuals are created.

Author Biographies

Diego Andrés Salcedo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE

Graduado em Biblioteconomia, Mestre e Doutor em Comunicação. Professor no Departamento de Ciência da Informação na Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – Brasil.

Riane Melo de Freitas Alves, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE

Graduada em Biblioteconomia. Especialista em Mediação Cultural pelo Departamento de Ciência da Informação da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco – Brasil.

Published

2015-02-16

How to Cite

Salcedo, D. A., & Melo de Freitas Alves, R. (2015). Culture mediation in school libraries. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (54), 82–87. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2014.145

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Section

Opinion