The diversity in legislation on public libraries in brazil and spain

Abstract

Public libraries are in face a diverse public, and often oppressed. The proposal of a mediating action foresees a constant rapprochement with readers in order to promote internal policies and activities that seek the appropriation of information, respecting and favoring the diversity. This work starts from the question: have public libraries been supported by a legislation that promote and strengthen the cultural diversity? To answer is proposed an initial analysis of the legislation for Public Libraries of Brazil and Spain, seeking to mention of the diversity within the most general laws of each country. Qualitatively selected laws (for Brazil, the National Book Plan, Law No. 13,696, of July 12, 2018, which establishes the National Reading and Writing Policy, and the National Book and Reading Plan – PNLL and for Spain, the Regulation of Public Libraries of the State and of the Spanish System of Libraries-Royal Decree 582/1989, and the laws: Law 10/2007, Law 19/2006 and Law 5/2012) were analyzed using Discourses Analysis. After the analyzes, it was possible to identify, in the Brazilian case, that the documents assume a position of book, reading and writing that presents a poetization of access and ends up by disregarding the nuances of the appropriation. In the case of Spain, in the perspective of this study (even if in isolation), which not only bring the theme as relevant, but also present corresponding lines of action. It was concluded the predominance of the custodial paradigm and the insufficient recognition of cultural diversity as an impact factor in the legislations evaluated.