Os generais e a biblioteca: as políticas culturais do Governo do Estado do Ceará entre 1964 e 1985

Abstract

This research aims to understand to what extent the cultural public policies developed by the Government of the State of Ceará affected the performance and the structure of the Public Library of the State of Ceará in the period comprised by the Brazilian military dictatorship, from 1964 to 1985. Of an exploratory nature, the research used content analysis as a method, based on the bibliographic and documentary corpus, the research by Barbalho (1998) and research by memorialists around SECULT and the Ceará Public Library. The pre-coup situation was discussed, both at national and state level, as well as the cultural policies of the Federal Government, its bases, its background and its influences on the development and application in Ceará. The emergence of SECULT as a result of these policies and their application to the Public Library of the State of Ceará was also addressed. Finally, the general panorama of public policies in the State was analyzed, as well as the result that they had in the Public Library of the State of Ceará. With this, the research identified that the cultural policies applied by the Government of the State of Ceará impacted the Public Library of the State of Ceará both in its physical structure, although it did not solve the structural problems of the institution, but also in the performance of the library, which was instrumentalized by the State Government as a form of political propaganda. Breaks were identified in relation to the cultural policies of the dictatorial period in relation to redemocratization, with a change of concept and greater investment in the institution.