School Library in the context of the Palavras Andantes Project: the importance of collectivity and public policies for the consolidation of the reader – a study in libraries in southern Brazil

Abstract

This article results from a postdoctoral internship, aims to address public policies and reading practices in school libraries of the municipal school system of Londrina-PR, which was the result of an experience awarded by the Viva Leitura program in the early 2000s. Thus, this study addresses investments in reading and promotion and mediation practices. The method used is qualitative, through bibliographic studies, based on theoretical basis authors such as: Bakhtin, Freire, Kuhlthau, Chartier, Girotto and Souza, Silva, among others.  Still addressing the methodological aspects, the analysis of the documentals, interviews with teachers working in the schools surveyed and school principals was made.  The results obtained indicate that the school libraries of Londrina despite having  configured for many years  as a space for the training  of readers, providing access to reading for students of municipal schools; currently it needs more effective public policies to promote the space of school libraries, which makes  a difference in the lives of students it finds  the environments a path to information, culture and pleasure. The article also points to the oscillations of school library programs, which due to the alternations of municipal administrations, has undergone impacting changes, which resulted in the instability of reading and mediation practices developed in these spaces, thus requiring a closer look with a view to strengthening and consolidating the school libraries of Londrina-PR.