A biblioteca comunitária e a sociedade da informação: estudo da biblioteca comunitária do Conjunto Ceará

Abstract

One is about a exploratória research, carried through in the communitarian library of the Joint quarter Ceará, whose objective was to investigate the relation of this library with the local community, and also to look for to know the importance of this institution. The used method is based on the dialectic. It presents definitions concerning public library, communitarian library, community and urban periphery. It approaches the society of the information, and the aspects of the digital exclusion. It standes out the importance of the communitarian library as instrument of informacional inclusion, and the importance of the performance of the professional librarian. Finally, it presents and it analyzes the data collected in the empirical research, and considers suggestions for improvements and perfectioning of the related institution.