Perspectives and alternatives, the popular and community library in main emphasis

a bibliometric analysis with the Brapci Database

Abstract

Community libraries are enhancers of the culture of peace and inclusive and social actions; yet, the guidelines for the right to education, culture, information and leisure are aligned. In the methodological dimension, the research is based on the bibliometric approach and brings to light the question about the eminence of the theme 'community library' in scientific journals of Information Science. The diagnosis encompasses indicators and measures: i) the temporal rise of the theme in the last 20 years; ii) the scientific periods; iii) the outline of the researchers and the most representative keywords. With the search, in May 2021, 80 documentary items are retrieved from the BRAPCI publications collection. The result of the investigation highlights the year 2017 as the most productive, totaling 11 publications; the RBBD magazine as the main communication vehicle, with 11 documentary items retrieved; and, a range of 51 articles produced by a team of two or three scholars. On the productive list, the pulverized form of the theme among 156 researchers is ratified. In this way, the theme locates history and memory that surround the publicity of community strength for informational democratization, and the community library locates forms of social empowerment and active citizenship – given prominence, prospecting and sociocultural and (in)formative primacy to people.