Biblioteca pública e leitura acessível: o setor de leitura acessível da Biblioteca Pública Estadual do Ceará como espaço de cidadania para pessoas com deficiência visual

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the importance of libraries for people with visual impairments and how this space of knowledge interferes in the exercise of citizenship, based on the case study of the Accessible Reading Sector of the Ceará State Public Library, responsible for the largest Braille collection in the State of Ceará. Through the reading of authors proposed throughout the Library Science course, as well as bibliographies that encourage the study of the subject and through dialogue with the person responsible for the Sector, the aim is to reflect on the right to knowledge and social inclusion. Throughout the text, it is observed that the way the library is structured, in physical and operational terms, directly interferes in the user's perception of access to information, the exercise of citizenship and their proximity or distance from the library. Finally, attention is drawn to the need to strengthen the means and mechanisms of social inclusion.