Public Policies for the School Library and the Strengthening of Regional Brazilian Identify: the contributions of PNBE

Abstract

The article sought to verify if the National Library Program of the School (PNBE) has contributed to the construction of the Brazilian regional identity through the collections selected and distributed to the school libraries. The school library as a potential tool for social transformation and development can only be effective when public policies are established for its maintenance. The PNBE, was established as a policy that aims to subsidize to the school libraries, collections that make possible its effectiveness. Characterized by selecting and distributing collections of literary works, updating works and promoting reading, it is therefore the only resource for the composition and updating of collections for the great majority of school libraries in the public school system. The PNBE criteria established annually thus defend a textual and thematic diversity of the selected works, aiming to represent through the collections the multifaceted Brazilian society. The exploratory research used the descriptive, comparative and qualitative method with the use of content analysis, aiming to contemplate all the complexity of the program. Through the documentary research, through the official documents of the program, the data were collected. From the data it was noticed that there is a good distribution between national and international works, classic, contemporary and general. Among the works that represent the regional culture there is a predominance of urban contexts and the southeast region, although these are diversified as to the cultural diversity that composes them.