Diretrizes para a gestão de bibliotecas comunitárias sob a perspectiva da gestão participativa

Abstract

This work consisted of a bibliographic research on the management in the Community Libraries from the perspective of Participatory Management. Bringing this management proposal as a means of valuing people's participation in the decision-making process about community library administration. The overall objective is to present guidelines for the management of community libraries from participatory management. The methodology used in this study was a qualitative research, exploratory approach. In this sense, this study was conducted to obtain information and guidance for the formulation of research hypotheses about this management model in Community Libraries. After this bibliographic analysis, a checklist was formulated and from it the guidelines were elaborated seeking to identify which criteria should be included in a Community Library for the adequacy of a participative management. It is concluded that these guidelines value community participation and favor the insertion of the library in the community.