Tipo: Trabalhos Completos
Autores: Sueli Angélica do Amaral e Adolfo Rodríguez
Fonte: 68th IFLA Council and General Conference – Glasgow 2002 / August 18-24, 2002
Resumo: Because of the diversity of materials in their collections and because, among others, the main values of librarians is intellectual freedom, free access to information and equity in access, libraries in general promote values which are some of the issues included in this meeting, such as democracy and diversity, the last being related to the tolerance to ideas and beliefs different from ours. Libraries, especially public ones, have as their main purpose the development of diversity of ideas among users attending them. Society is plural and libraries should show this diversity to the members of the community being attended. Even though one of the main goals of university libraries is to support education and research, they cannot abandon their role as a place where different social policies, theories and ideologies meet. They are, however, a space to study different art and cultural schools and, in general, to analyze the trends of daily life in a society.
IFLA – Internationa Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
IFLALAC – Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Division / División Regional de América Latina y Caribe
