As bibliotecas dos centros culturais da Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte: espaços públicos de cultura

Abstract

This study aimed to discuss the libraries function in Belo Horizonte cultural centers, highlighting their roles as equipments decentralizing access to culture and information. For this, we performed a literature review in order to conceptualize such terms as cultural centers and public libraries, raising issues with respect to their origins and functions, seeking to characterize and analyze historical and social factors for the libraries and cultural centers deployment such as public cultural policy,which aims to serve the communities in which they operate. This study addressed each library in its historical dimension, in various contexts, circumstances, and in cultural activities developed by its various projects. Data were collected and analyzed to identify the ways in conducting the cultural actions of each cultural center and library. The results show how they work, how they are structured, seeking to be a cultural activities network, aimed at the access decentralization to culture in the statecapital.