What and Why a Research about Reading Promotion on Public Libraries in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon

Abstract

Research Practices for Promoting Reading in Libraries in the MLA (Metropolitan Lisbon Area) looks at how we process practices to promote reading (PPR) in public libraries (PL). The reason for this research is the lack of focused qualitative studies or extensive investigations in this area. Against this backdrop, we developed a research to expand the knowledge on the subject, and the reality of what and how that is translated in the PPR’s performed in the PL’s. We seek to assess concepts and discourses that frame the promotion of reading; identify and characterize dominant or singular developed PPR; know the role of mediation and participants in these PPR; know the assessment given by librarians about the PPR that they promoted. This seems relevant in a time global transformation, where the domain of the practice and uses of reading and skills in various literacies are compelling and cross needs in a culture of information context.