Project in development: Inclusion
of values by the Brazilian public libraries.
Professor Eduardo da Silva Alentejo.
ABSTRACT
Libraries
in Brazil exist in various types, designed by the purposes for which they are
made depending on the context and the socio-political contingency, especially
when we situate the advent of democracy in the country. However, compared with
other countries whose democratization process similar to the Brazil, focused
libraries or organized to record and safeguard the culture and the memory of
the black man, indigenous, gypsy, LGBT etc. are nonexistent, depending for
their livelihoods exercise of cultural centers from NGOs. Exceptionally, some
entities can keep libraries for these humanitarian groups at the expense of
donations and volunteer work of its members. This is the case of the Bahia Gay
Group maintains collections that record the memory of the LGBT movement and
also produces statistical reports on LGBT violence in Brazil. Another example
is the Gypsy Embassy of Brazil that keeps on its website access to information
and news about the movement and its library records and safeguards the memory
of the Roma people in Brazil. When it is said that they do not exist, it is
said that there are under the State's point of view for libraries whose
policies do not reach these populations and communities. In fact, policies for
libraries in Brazil still are weak, absent, silent, not to say, incompetent.
Why democracy on the one hand, it is a burden that politicians and governments
apply to cover the diversity of vested interests and the people on the other
hand does not know what that means. Republic does not join and governors that govern
for few are some causes of the lack of consistency for public policies for
libraries. In this sense, the notion of libraries for all in Brazil or is in
the process of being carried out or is it a utopia? Under this approach, we
study inclusion values by public libraries for distinct communities in Brazil,
such as, gypsies, quilombos African descent, indigenous and LGBT citizens. This
aims to identify how much libraries exist, where they are and what they do to
keep their cultural memory preserved.
