Cultural mediation and libraries: conceptual perspectives in the Science of Information in Brazil

Abstract

It presents the conceptual perspectives on cultural mediation in libraries in the scientific production of Information Science in Brazil. It explores the Database of Periodicals in Information Science (BRAPCI), the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (IBICT), the Annals of the National Meeting of Research and Graduate in Information Science (BENANCIB), the Portal of Periodicals CAPES / MEC and the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA). The methodology consisted of research of a qualitative nature, of a bibliographic and descriptive type. It is intended to collaborate and foster the epistemological debate on cultural mediation in the areas of Information Science and Librarianship in Brazil. Cultural mediation is seen as a broad, complex field that opens up to various instances, studies and inquiries in different spaces and perspectives. As a result, several researches have focused on cultural mediation under the bias of diverse conceptual perspectives highlighting paradigms such as the construction of meanings, cultural appropriation, cultural negotiation, cultural protagonism and devices.