Bibliotecas e información : el contexto y las personas sí importan

Abstract

How do libraries and information services support the cognitive projects and the social, political, economical and cultural nature in every day life? The answer constitutes a renovated challenge present in this line of work, from theoretical and empirical perspectives with which different linking of strategies are shown, as well as the benefits that the library offers to people and communities which establish relation, cohesion and actuation links in the private and social spheres. The context and the persons matter because they give social sense and prescriptive bibliothecological knowledge, whose materiality reconfigures the environment with its scheme of ethical values and robust theoretical fundaments, which give support to the description and access to the information resources contained in the services for non-abstract users, so they guarantee and transform knowledge into individual and collective action. Therefore, the exit of the social interaction of the library necessarily depends of the context, and understanding it powers its performance