Saberes científicos da Biblioteconomia em diálogo com as Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Abstract

The field of Library Science has a long historical trajectory. The origin of the first libraries, in Antiquity led to the beginning of a pre-scientific establishment of Library Science, marked by empirical knowledge; passing, in Modernity, to be titled Library Science proto-scientific, due to the increase of greater production of books and manuals targeted for libraries and "librarians". In the nineteenth century, the Library Science was established as a scientific, within a context of consolidation of SocialSciences, and also result in a more systematic about themselves, being named since scientific Library Science. Panoramic research on the production of the field point to a concentration around practical issues, empirical, aimed at the professional level. Thus, in order to contribute to a reduction in the gap or to supply a certain lack of theoretical research aimed to undertake an understanding of the Library Science knowledge from its discursive production. To compose the discourse analysis was used a total of nine books that focused on the own Library Science. We selected deliberately three books in each country: United States, Brazil and Mexico: Butler, 1971; Shera, 1990; Lankes, 2015 (USA); Milanesi, 1986; Almeida Júnior, 1997; Fonseca, 2007 (BRAZIL); Brown Caesar, 2000; Rendón Rojas, 2005; Alfaro López, 2010 (MEXICO). Thus, thediscourse analysis of Michel Foucault, and in particular the time of his Archaeology, together with Pierre Bourdieu's theory, provided theoretical basis for thinking both the knowledge, the speeches and the concept of scientific field. The books of the authors mentioned above were analyzed, and from the systematic reading the following categories were extracted: library, librarian, library science, user, information, knowledge and document. Such productions are not detached or disconnected fromthe discussions held by the Social Sciences and Humanities, the field on which the Library Science is included as a specific mode of thought. It was possible to make a link of discourse of Library Science with the Social Sciences and Humanities, from three schools of thought: Social Planning; Contradiction social; Construction of social, marking a distinct way of looking at reality, to the social and Library Science phenomena. So Library Science from a look of "social order" back to the integrationand the logic of the social system. The "contradiction of social" focuses on the social from the contradictions and conflicts that pervade and structure society. The "social construction" focuses on theories that enfeixam analyzes that have in common the fact that individuals take as a starting point of their investigations and a social construction view of reality. The discourses reveal theoretical marks of affiliation, in an implied or explicate way, seeking to shed light on the understanding of social phenomena. In addition, through the relations established with the Social and Human Sciences, it is hoped to have contributed to the vertical understanding of this field of knowledge and to the strengthening of Library Science as a Social and Human Science.